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Mi vida no tan secreta / My Not-So-Secret Life
Mi vida no tan secreta es un fresco de familia que se entrecruza con la historia social del entonces D.F., a partir de 1950 y hasta el final del Salinato.
Es la historia de Lucio, un patriarca fallido en sus sueños de grandeza que se mira en el reflejo torcido de sus hijos menores, agobiados por la complicidad filial. Lucio es el proveedor de los altibajos y pequeños logros de su familia, marginada de la bonanza de un sistema político que derivó en idiosincrasia nacional.
Autobiografía sin falsos arrepentimientos, bañada en alcohol e ironía, que increpa la historia oficial de verdades impostadas sobre una sociedad donde nadie es inocente. En este relato, J.M. Servín expresa su evidente visión de los de su familia y entorno como mapa sin brújula de la modernidad fallida de un país.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
My Not-So-Secret Life is a family portrait that intersects with the social history of a city then known as D.F., from the 1950s to the end of the Salinas presidency.
It is Lucio’s story, a patriarch who has failed in his dreams of grandeur, a man who sees himself in the twisted reflections of his younger children, who are anxious over their filial complicity. Lucio is the one who provides the ups and downs and small achievements of his family, excluded from the prosperity of a political system that resulted in national idiosyncrasy.
An autobiography free of false remorse, bathed in alcohol and irony, that rebukes the official history of those made-up truths about a society where no one is innocent. In this tale, J. M. Servín expresses his blatant vision of the his family and his environment as the map without compass of a country’s flawed modernity.
Es la historia de Lucio, un patriarca fallido en sus sueños de grandeza que se mira en el reflejo torcido de sus hijos menores, agobiados por la complicidad filial. Lucio es el proveedor de los altibajos y pequeños logros de su familia, marginada de la bonanza de un sistema político que derivó en idiosincrasia nacional.
Autobiografía sin falsos arrepentimientos, bañada en alcohol e ironía, que increpa la historia oficial de verdades impostadas sobre una sociedad donde nadie es inocente. En este relato, J.M. Servín expresa su evidente visión de los de su familia y entorno como mapa sin brújula de la modernidad fallida de un país.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
My Not-So-Secret Life is a family portrait that intersects with the social history of a city then known as D.F., from the 1950s to the end of the Salinas presidency.
It is Lucio’s story, a patriarch who has failed in his dreams of grandeur, a man who sees himself in the twisted reflections of his younger children, who are anxious over their filial complicity. Lucio is the one who provides the ups and downs and small achievements of his family, excluded from the prosperity of a political system that resulted in national idiosyncrasy.
An autobiography free of false remorse, bathed in alcohol and irony, that rebukes the official history of those made-up truths about a society where no one is innocent. In this tale, J. M. Servín expresses his blatant vision of the his family and his environment as the map without compass of a country’s flawed modernity.
448 pages, Paperback
Published December 20, 2022
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January 5, 2023
Este es un libro que no te va a dejar indiferente, ni sales intacto de su lectura. Me gustó mucho ese tono confesional que Servín le da a este trabajo. Además, tomando la vida de su familia a veces como pretexto, aprovecha para mostrar un poco de ese otro ex DF, el de la periferia, el de los que creen no tener futuro. Disfruté leerlo sin prisa.
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