• Hardcover
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• La forma de las ruinas
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• en
• 12 May 2020
• 9780735211148

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez í 5 characters review ↠ La forma de las ruinas ì PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free F a murdered Colombian politician few notice But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories assassinations and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killingsThis novel e. Man Booker International Prize Longlist 2019 V suez has written an impressive historical novel that explores the ramifications of two important assassinations in Columbian political history On October 15th in 1914 Rafael Uribe Uribe the leader of the Liberal party General and Senator of the Republic of Columbia was assassinated by two disaffected carpenters Leovigildo Galarza and Jes s Carvajal with hatchets The second spectacular assassination occurred on April 9th in 1948 when Juan Roa Sierra shot Jorge Eli cer Gait n the liberal populist and future President The death of Gait n triggered riots that resulted in roughly 3000 deaths when the authorities were brought in to uell the violence and called Bogotazo It was followed by a 10 year civil war that caused thousands of deaths and the rise of Pablo Escobar s drug gang violence during the 1980s and 1990sThese two significant assassinations were impenetrable chaotic events where facts were hard to discern This led to numerous conspiracy theories often convoluted and intricate Hard evidence and hearsay were given eual weight Public rumors refuted documentation and third hand accounts influenced the recollections of first hand accountsUribe s brother had hired Marco Tulio Anzola to find the truth about Uribe s killing and its perpetrators Anzola recorded his efforts in a book that V suez came across Anzola clearly had become obsessed with Uribe s assassination and this account fascinated V suez The author pulls heavily from the book in this offering to help explain Uribe s deathThere was no similar account for Gait n s assassination so V suez created the character Carlos Carballo that is conspiracy theory obsessed Carballo s search for the greater truth follows labyrinthine pathsIn probing these two deaths in his novel V suez illuminates how conspiracy theories are tools used by political populists to undermine the free press by destroying belief in any objective truth The result is that history becomes less based on facts and instead is the shape of the ruins Recommend Ambitious Love year civil war that caused thousands of deaths and the rise of Pablo Escobar s drug gang violence during the 1980s and 1990sThese two significant assassinations were impenetrable chaotic events where facts were hard to discern This led to numerous conspiracy theories often convoluted and intricate Hard evidence and hearsay were given eual weight Public rumors refuted documentation and third hand accounts influenced the recollections of first hand accountsUribe s brother had hired Marco Tulio Anzola to find the truth about Uribe s killing and its perpetrators Anzola recorded his efforts in a book that V suez came across Anzola clearly had become obsessed with Uribe s assassination and this account fascinated V suez The author pulls heavily from the book in this offering to help explain Uribe s deathThere was no similar account for Gait n s assassination so V suez created the character Carlos Carballo that is conspiracy theory obsessed Carballo s search for the greater truth follows labyrinthine pathsIn probing these two deaths in his novel V suez illuminates how conspiracy theories are tools used by political populists to undermine the free press by destroying belief in any objective truth The result is that history becomes less based on facts and instead is the shape of the ruins Recommend

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez í 5 characters review ↠ La forma de las ruinas ì PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Xplores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives A compulsive read beautiful and profound eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal The Shape of the Ruins is a tour de force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memorie. Esas ruinas humanas eran memorandos de nuestros errores pasados y en alg n momento fueron tambi n profec as p 541These human remains were memories of our past mistakes and in some moment they were our prophecies tooThis line from the end of Juan Gabriel V suez s latest book sums up the challenging theme of the past comes back to haunt us V suez a Colombian who lives mostly in Barcelona digs up the dirt on Colombia s past or in his own words no pod a dejar de pensar en mis cr menes colombianos p 544 I relistened to a podcast interview done around 2012 He admits that Colombia s past 100 years is a time of almost constant conflict He reflects his own personal drama in during the cartel wars of the 1990s in The Sound of Things Falling and the Nazi connection during the Second Wolrd War in The Informers So it didn t surprize me that in La forma de las ruinas V suez takes a front seat and starts telling an almost autobiographical role as one of the main characters His connection to Carlos Carballo a man introduced in the first pages after being caught trying to steal the suit from a museum of Jorge Eli cer Gait n is alarming Gait n was a leading political figure murdered in 1948 which cause unrest in the country His death had some speculating a conspiracy and uickly V suez adds in the Kennedy assignation and the book is off to conspiracy heaven To be honest the first 240 pages are riveting Then the book jumps back in time to the murder of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914 V suez spends a lot of time in this section underlining and connecting dots to his thesis of mis cr menes colombianos and I was starting to get a little overwhelmed The connection to a now lost book ui nes son by Marco Tulio Anzola was baffling and arresting at the same time Time buries things and V suez shines light on some of those books hidden away in the dustbins of history In true V suez fashion he brings everything back together they never really were gone He begins with an absolutely mesmerizing thesis on the past in the chapter called La forma de las ruinas Ruina can mean ruin or remain and his pondering about finding the remains of a person in history or anyone including one day his own rremains is shear brillianceYes Colombia has a dreadful past V suez left his country to raise his daughters in Spain and yet he also muses whether this is good for them Will they know his past their heritage What does it mean to escape one s past especially when it is full of violence He visits Colombia often and always finds stories to uncover This one is remarkably strong and unlike a straight historical novel makes one think about things I have so much respect for this writerread in Spanish Digital Minimalism Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World y en alg n momento fueron tambi n profec as p 541These human remains were memories of our past mistakes and in some moment they were our prophecies tooThis line from the end of Juan Gabriel V suez s latest book sums up the challenging theme of the past comes back to haunt us V suez a Colombian who lives mostly in Barcelona digs up the dirt on Colombia s past or in his own words no pod a dejar de pensar en mis cr menes colombianos p 544 I relistened to a podcast interview done around 2012 He admits that Colombia s past 100 Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man A Memoir years is a time of almost constant conflict He reflects his own personal drama in during the cartel wars of the 1990s in The Sound of Things Falling and the Nazi connection during the Second Wolrd War in The Informers So it didn t surprize me that in La forma de las ruinas V suez takes a front seat and starts telling an almost autobiographical role as one of the main characters His connection to Carlos Carballo a man introduced in the first pages after being caught trying to steal the suit from a museum of Jorge Eli cer Gait n is alarming Gait n was a leading political figure murdered in 1948 which cause unrest in the country His death had some speculating a conspiracy and uickly V suez adds in the Kennedy assignation and the book is off to conspiracy heaven To be honest the first 240 pages are riveting Then the book jumps back in time to the murder of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914 V suez spends a lot of time in this section underlining and connecting dots to his thesis of mis cr menes colombianos and I was starting to get a little overwhelmed The connection to a now lost book ui nes son by Marco Tulio Anzola was baffling and arresting at the same time Time buries things and V suez shines light on some of those books hidden away in the dustbins of history In true V suez fashion he brings everything back together they never really were gone He begins with an absolutely mesmerizing thesis on the past in the chapter called La forma de las ruinas Ruina can mean ruin or remain and his pondering about finding the remains of a person in history or anyone including one day his own rremains is shear brillianceYes Colombia has a dreadful past V suez left his country to raise his daughters in Spain and Popinjay Stairs yet he also muses whether this is good for them Will they know his past their heritage What does it mean to escape one s past especially when it is full of violence He visits Colombia often and always finds stories to uncover This one is remarkably strong and unlike a straight historical novel makes one think about things I have so much respect for this writerread in Spanish

Juan Gabriel Vásquez í 5 characters review ↠ La forma de las ruinas ì PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories assassinations and twisted obsessions the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasuez The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy political obsession and literary investigation When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet ridden suit o. Delighted to see this now on the MBI 2019 long list there are truths that don t happen in those places truths that nobody writes down because they re invisible There are millions of things that happen in special places they are places that are not within the reach of historians or journalists They are not invented places they are not fictions they are very real as real as anything told in the newspapers But they don t survive They stay there without anybody to tell them This is a marvellous book but strangely for me it s hard to put my finger precisely on what makes it so powerful and ultimately moving Straddling that contested area between fact and fiction where the narrator shares the name of the author this certainly has the postmodern feel of Eco s Foucault s Pendulum crossed with the historical self consciousness of Binet s HHhH I m confident that readers better versed in Latin American literature than I am will spot other influences and literary relationshipsOn one level this narrates key episodes in the C20th history of Columbia via especially two assassinations of Leftist leaders Alongside this however are richer veins that meditate on history and story telling on the interpenetration of past and present on inheritances in personal national and even wider terms V suez writes unflashy precise and intelligent prose a shout out too to the translator and the stories that unfurl are uietly gripping Inevitably this isn t linear but V suez keeps his histories circulating through levels of narratives stories embedded within stories not doing that cheap trick of flitting around between time periods that every other novel seems to performThe way this is put together is masterful as we finally along with the narrator see the shape of the book we ve been reading But it s also exceptional at the local level they are simply human remains ruins yes the ruins of noble men Deeply political deeply humane deeply literary a nexus of ideas meld together to form a narrative of distinction and significance In some ways the conclusion could be profoundly pessimistic because nothing has changed here in centuries of existence and never will change and yet the very power of words serves to undermine that desolation he wanted me to make a mausoleum of words where his father could dwell and he also wanted the last two hours his father lived to be documented just as he understood them because that way his father would not just have a place in the world but would have played a part in history Many thanks to uercus for an ARC via NetGalley