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Plutón
Ella es periodista. Él fotógrafo. Laura y Miguel son una típica pareja de clase media en la Bogotá de los años noventa seducidos por el poder del dinero y el arribismo que promete un ascenso social. Plutón, su gato negro, los mira desde alguna parte y es testigo de esta novela que representó el abordaje de Evelio Rosero al mundo o al aura que ha dejado el narcotráfico en Colombia. La radio, las agencias de publicidad, la vanidad, el dinero, la política y los militares desfilan por esta poderosa novela que ha sido reeditada y revisada por su autor para esta edición.
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Evelio Rosero
44 books141 followersEvelio Rosero Diago was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 20, 1958. He is a Colombian writer and journalist, who reached international acclaim after winning in 2006 the prestigious Tusquets Prize.
Evelio Rosero studied primary school in Colombia’s southern city of Pasto, and high school in Bogotá, where he later attended Universidad Externado de Colombia obtaining a degree in Journalism. When he was 21, he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Cuento del Quindío 1979 (National Short Story Award of Quindío), for his piece Ausentes (The Departed) that was published by Instituto Colombiano de Cultura in the book 17 Cuentos colombianos (17 Colombian Short Stories). In 1982 he was awarded with the Premio Iberoamericano de Libro de Cuentos Netzahualcóyotl, in Mexico City for his earlier stories, and that same year, a novella under the title Papá es santo y sabio (Dad is holy and wise) won Spain’s Premio Internacional de Novela Breve Valencia. After these early successess, Rosero fled to Europe and lived first in Paris and later in Barcelona.
His first novel in 1984 was Mateo Solo (Mateo Alone), which began his trilogy known as Primera Vez (First Time). Mateo Solo is a story about a child confined in his own home. Mateo knows about the outside world for what he sees through the windows. It is a novel of dazzling confinement, where sight is the main character: his sister, his aunt, his nanny all play their own game while allowing Mateo to keep his hope for identity in plotting his own escape.
With his second book in 1986, Juliana los mira (Juliana is watching), Evelio Rosero was translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German to great acclaim. Once again, the visual experience of a child, this time a girl, builds the world of grownups and family, unveiling all the brutality and meanness of adults as seen with her ingenuousness. Juliana’s world is her own house and family. As Juliana watches her parents and relatives, she builds them. Her sight alters objects as she contemplates them. This was the first book where Rosero involved other themes from Colombia’s tragical reality such as kidnapping, presented here as a permanent threat that in the end justifies Juliana’s own confinement.
In 1988, El Incendiado (The Burning Man) was published. With this book, Rosero obtained a Proartes bachelor in Colombia and won in 1992 the II Premio Pedro Gómez Valderrama for the most outstanding book written between 1988 and 1992. The novel tells the stories of a group of teenagers from a famous school in Bogotá, Colegio Agustiniano Norte, denouncing the education taught by the priest headmasters as “fool, arcaic, troglodite and morbid”.
To date, he has written nine novels, beginning with Señor que no conoce luna in 1992 and Cuchilla in 2000 which won a Norma-Fundalectura prize. Plutón (Pluto) published also in 2000, Los almuerzos (The lunches) in 2001, Juega el amor in 2002 and Los Ejércitos, which won in 2006 the prestigious 2nd Premio Tusquets Editores de Novela and also won in 2009 the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize organized by the British newspaper The Independent.
Evelio Rosero currently lives in Bogotá. In 2006 he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize) awarded in recognition of a life in letters by the Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into a dozen European languages.
Evelio Rosero studied primary school in Colombia’s southern city of Pasto, and high school in Bogotá, where he later attended Universidad Externado de Colombia obtaining a degree in Journalism. When he was 21, he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Cuento del Quindío 1979 (National Short Story Award of Quindío), for his piece Ausentes (The Departed) that was published by Instituto Colombiano de Cultura in the book 17 Cuentos colombianos (17 Colombian Short Stories). In 1982 he was awarded with the Premio Iberoamericano de Libro de Cuentos Netzahualcóyotl, in Mexico City for his earlier stories, and that same year, a novella under the title Papá es santo y sabio (Dad is holy and wise) won Spain’s Premio Internacional de Novela Breve Valencia. After these early successess, Rosero fled to Europe and lived first in Paris and later in Barcelona.
His first novel in 1984 was Mateo Solo (Mateo Alone), which began his trilogy known as Primera Vez (First Time). Mateo Solo is a story about a child confined in his own home. Mateo knows about the outside world for what he sees through the windows. It is a novel of dazzling confinement, where sight is the main character: his sister, his aunt, his nanny all play their own game while allowing Mateo to keep his hope for identity in plotting his own escape.
With his second book in 1986, Juliana los mira (Juliana is watching), Evelio Rosero was translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German to great acclaim. Once again, the visual experience of a child, this time a girl, builds the world of grownups and family, unveiling all the brutality and meanness of adults as seen with her ingenuousness. Juliana’s world is her own house and family. As Juliana watches her parents and relatives, she builds them. Her sight alters objects as she contemplates them. This was the first book where Rosero involved other themes from Colombia’s tragical reality such as kidnapping, presented here as a permanent threat that in the end justifies Juliana’s own confinement.
In 1988, El Incendiado (The Burning Man) was published. With this book, Rosero obtained a Proartes bachelor in Colombia and won in 1992 the II Premio Pedro Gómez Valderrama for the most outstanding book written between 1988 and 1992. The novel tells the stories of a group of teenagers from a famous school in Bogotá, Colegio Agustiniano Norte, denouncing the education taught by the priest headmasters as “fool, arcaic, troglodite and morbid”.
To date, he has written nine novels, beginning with Señor que no conoce luna in 1992 and Cuchilla in 2000 which won a Norma-Fundalectura prize. Plutón (Pluto) published also in 2000, Los almuerzos (The lunches) in 2001, Juega el amor in 2002 and Los Ejércitos, which won in 2006 the prestigious 2nd Premio Tusquets Editores de Novela and also won in 2009 the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize organized by the British newspaper The Independent.
Evelio Rosero currently lives in Bogotá. In 2006 he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize) awarded in recognition of a life in letters by the Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into a dozen European languages.
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July 31, 2023
Lorena is deeply involved in the radio world and Miguel is expressing his vision through his photography. They represent an average Bogotá couple from the late 70s, striving for wealth and social advancement. They share their life with Plutón, their cat, a silent observer, much like Evelio Rosero, who analyses the shadow cast over Colombia by the drug trade.
This book is a profound exploration. It covers aspects such as the omnipresent radio, the illusionary world of advertising agencies, the endless quest for wealth, the complexities of politics, and even military intervention. It's an intense journey, portraying the unfiltered realities of life. Rosero, the author, has been tirelessly refining and honing his work for this edition. It's certainly a worthwhile read. It provides a vivid portrayal of life in Colombia, encapsulating the raw energy of a tumultuous era.
This book is a profound exploration. It covers aspects such as the omnipresent radio, the illusionary world of advertising agencies, the endless quest for wealth, the complexities of politics, and even military intervention. It's an intense journey, portraying the unfiltered realities of life. Rosero, the author, has been tirelessly refining and honing his work for this edition. It's certainly a worthwhile read. It provides a vivid portrayal of life in Colombia, encapsulating the raw energy of a tumultuous era.
April 19, 2023
Miguel Laverde, fotógrafo publicitario, y Lorena, su esposa, doctora corazón en una emisora radial bogotana. Laverde lleva un diario, a quien le confía su memoria, porque tiene que recordar al detalle después de tener la certeza que su esposa Lorena lo quiere asesinar.
Lorena, una mujer hermosa (de cabello rojizo, como el fuego, mujer que provoca y abre los apetitos sexuales de la feísima y Paredes), jefe de Miguel Laverde en la agencia publicitaria.
Pasa con mi querido Evelio Rosero que entre uno y otro libro parece otro escritor. Las diferentes voces narrativas que hay entre libros se distancian mucho y me parece estar leyendo escritores distintos.
¡Como te amo Evelio Rosero!
Lorena, una mujer hermosa (de cabello rojizo, como el fuego, mujer que provoca y abre los apetitos sexuales de la feísima y Paredes), jefe de Miguel Laverde en la agencia publicitaria.
Pasa con mi querido Evelio Rosero que entre uno y otro libro parece otro escritor. Las diferentes voces narrativas que hay entre libros se distancian mucho y me parece estar leyendo escritores distintos.
¡Como te amo Evelio Rosero!
October 30, 2025
Tenebroso y complejo relato de los alcances del tráfico (de drogas, de seres humanos) afincado en la alta sociedad bogotana de los 80’s, a través de una supuesta agencia de publicidad. El montaje es siniestro y así, entre negocios turbios y personajes falsamente decentes se intensifica la violencia que asfixia la ciudad dejando, sutilmente, cadáveres desperdigados por aquella burbuja a punto de estallar. Allí, entre el bajo mundo ilegal y las familias adineradas con riquezas exacerbadas vulgarmente exhibidas, Plutón es el gato de una pareja arribista al borde del colapso y la metáfora dolorosa de una ciudad jerarquizada, ávida de dinero turbio, aunque esté manchado con sangre ajena.
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