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Prolongación de la noche / A Prolongued Evening

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«Toda pasión profunda requiere sin remedio cierto grado de crueldad.»

Algo misterioso y fantástico habita estos cuentos. Fantasmas, hoteles poseídos, dimensiones paralelas, una versión alterna de la historia, donde los héroes palidecen, y un espejo donde enfrentarás tus miedos y deseos ocultos. Cada cuento es eslabón de una cadena que resuena en mitad de la noche como el cascabel de una víbora. Con su proverbial maestría de tejedor de historias, Solares ha reunido aquí 47 textos, algunos tan breves como un aforismo, donde hay reflexiones sobre la vida y el deseo, el amor y la muerte.

Prolongación de la noche reúne filias del su vena de historiador, la "dislocación de la realidad", la mística espiritual, la crónica periodística. Son cuentos donde el miedo rompe la armonía; los personajes se sienten observados y la angustia de vivir se refleja en sus actos; sin embargo, siguen adelante, porque en el fondo se saben criaturas de Dios y porque tal vez la realidad es tan sólo una prolongación de nuestros sueños.

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"All deep passion requires a certain degree of cruelty."

Something mysterious and fantastic lies in these stories. Ghosts, haunted hotels, parallel dimensions, an alternate version of the story where heroes pale, and a mirror where you face your hidden fears and desires. Each story is a link in a chain that echoes in the night like a viper’s rattle. With his renowned mastery at spinning tales, Solares has gathered here 47 texts, some as short as a maxim, in which we find reflections about life and desire, love and death.

  A Prolongued Evening compiles the author’s his streak as a historian, a certain "dislocation of reality," spiritual mysticism, the reporting of a journalist. They are stories where fear breaks the the characters feel watched and the angst of living is reflected in their actions; nevertheless, they continue because deep down they consider themselves creatures of God and because perhaps reality is just a continuation of our dreams.

136 pages, Paperback

Published May 29, 2018

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Ignacio Solares

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Ignacio Solares was a prominent Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel La invasión (The Invasion, 2004) was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain. Until 2005 he served as the Coordinator of Cultural Activities for Literature and Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); he was a faculty member there and directed the cultural magazine Revista de la Universidad de México. He formerly served as director of the Department of Theater and Dance and the Division of Literature at UNAM. He edited the cultural supplement to the weekly magazine Siempre.

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April 10, 2018
Tiene cuentos excelentes, aunque no todos te dejan tan pasmado.
Me encanta la forma en que ve el mundo.

Muy linda experiencia.
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December 14, 2023
Breve y quizá allí radica la maravilla: a estos textos no les falta ni una sola coma o tienen una palabra de más. Por lo que su precisión es realmente sorprendente.
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