Revista Quinchamalí

Revista de literatura Chile

Libros de Laura Restrepo (3 libros)

Delirio / Delirium

Libro Delirio / Delirium

En Delirio David Grossman, Man Booker International Prize 2017, aborda el tema del «enemigo» desde el punto de vista más íntimo: solo existimos si alguien nos mira, nos ama o nos odia, hasta el punto que estamos dispuestos a construir rivales con tal de sobrevivir. La anécdota es simple: Elisheva, la esposa de Shaul, se ausenta de casa cada tarde para ir a nadar, o eso es lo que ella dice, pero su marido imagina cosas bien distintas: ve a su esposa con otro hombre, nota sus caricias, oye sus palabras, sabe -como todos los seres celosos creen saber- que con ese hombre Elisheva se...

A Tale of the Dispossessed

Libro A Tale of the Dispossessed

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...

La multitud errante

Libro La multitud errante

«Cuando el nivel de la escritura llega hasta donde lo llevó Laura Restrepo, hay que quitarse el sombrero». José Saramago