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Las Peliculas de Mi Vida: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Alberto Fuguet (Author)
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October 14, 2003

Beltrán Soler es du Chile, una tierra que se mueve. Es, además, un sismólogo que sabe mucho sobre las placas tectónicas pero poco de la vida. Encerrado en su universo de datos sísmicos, libros científicos y catástrofes naturales, se protege del mundo que lo rodea. Pero a miles de kilómetros por encima del suelo que tanto analiza, en un avión camino a Los Ángeles -- la capital del cine, y la ciudad en la que creció -- tiene una conversación que le gatilla un sismo interno. De repente se le vienen a la mente las cincuenta películas más importante de su vida, aquellos filmes a la vez divertidos y absurdos que más lo afectaron durante su infancia y adolescencia durante los años sesenta y setenta.

Desde Willy Wonka y la Fábrica de Chocolates a Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo, pasando por las ruidosas cintas de catástrofe como ¡Terremoto! y los filmes futuristas de los setenta como Fuga en el Siglo XXIII, se conecta con su pasado, acordándose de las películas que vio, las personas con las que las vio y hasta de los teatros a los que fue. De recuerdo en recuerdo, de película en película, Beltrán reconstruye la historia de su excéntrica y disfuncional familia, y descubre que las películas que vio -- las que le gustaron y las que no -- fueron las que lo definieron como persona.

Ambientada en los dos mundos extrañamente paralelos de la suburbana California de Nixon, y el frío Santiago de Chile de Pinochet, esta ágil y contemporánea novela nos precipita en el universo cinematográfico de un adolescente que busca escapar de una existencia fragmentada, atrapada entre dos idiomas, dos culturas y dos familias que sin embargo ven las mismas películas. Escrita en el lenguaje dinámico y vivaz que ha hecho de Alberto Fuguet un escritor reconocido a nivel mundial, Las Películas de Mi Vida es una novela sobre el cine y sobre cómo las películas que vemos se vuelven parte de quienes somos.


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About the Author

Born in Santiago de Chile, Alberto Fuguet spent his early childhood in California. He is one of the most prominent Latin American authors of his generation and one of the leaders of the literary movement known as McOndo, which proclaims the end of magical realism. He has been a film critic and a police reporter. He lives in Santiago de Chile.

Alberto Fuguet naci#243; en Santiago de Chile, y pas#243; su infancia en California. Es uno de los autores latinoamericanos m#225;s destacados de su generaci#243;n y uno de los l#237;deres de McOndo, el movimiento literario que proclama el fin del realismo m#225;gico. Ha sido cr#237;tico de cine y reportero policial. Vive en Santiago.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Rayo (October 14, 2003)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0060559403
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060559403
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente, November 3, 2003
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This review is from: Las Peliculas de Mi Vida: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)
Vengo leyendo a Fuguet desde la epoca en que escribia como Enrique Alekan, y aunque se podria decir que el autor a veces peca de autoreferente (si, Matias Vicuna tambien aparece aqui), en este libro se aprecia una forma de escribir y de estructurar la novela mucho mas depurada. El paralelo entre la sismografia y los "terremotos personales" de cada uno, la encontre excelente. Creo que es lo mejor que ha escrito, aunque con esto no quiero menos preciar sus otros libros: Tinta Roja y Mala Onda son relatos con merito propio.

Desde mi punto de vista, creo que Fuguet logra lo que Matias Vicuna (de nuevo) describia despues de leer The Catcher in The Rye. Una identficacion tal con el personaje que a uno le gustaria sentarse a conversar con el, y saber que fue de su vida, que que paso despues del punto final...

Lo recomiendo sobre todos a aquellos que han criticado a Fuguet por la crudeza de algunos relatos, y lo decadente de alguno de sus personajes.

Excelente lectura.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, lousy editing, December 28, 2005
This review is from: Las Peliculas de Mi Vida: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)
This is another of Alberto Fuguet's intense and incisive works of fiction. He breaks with the myth of the "good Chilean exile" by having his protagonist closely relate to Pinochet supporters. His criticism is subtle and therefore more effective. His outsider's perspective on both Chile and the U.S. offers very unexpected insights on both countries and cultures.

As much as I can rave about the book I must complain about what amounts to the worst edition I have ever seen coming from an American publishing house - and this is Harper Collins! I was exited about the Rayo concept - books written by Hispanic authors appearing both in English and Spanish versions. Naturally, I was looking forward to reading my first of these. However, the Spanish edition is so bad it has probably a typo per page. It is a shame that Rayo was unable to hire Spanish speaking editors of quality. As if they did not exist. Makes me wonder if Latino editors get the same income as their English language counterparts.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge this book by its cover, August 12, 2004
This review is from: Las Peliculas de Mi Vida: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)
As well as being the first book I read by Fuguet, the back flap of the cover was the first reference to McOndo that I have ever heard. Judging by the brief definition of the genre, I was expecting a work that blatantly attacks Gabriel García Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Isabel Allende and other writers of magic realism while celebrating McDonalds and Coca-Cola. After all, McOndo declares the death of magic realism in Latin America. What I found was a work that agrees wholeheartedly with the uniqueness of Latin American and Chilean culture but is speaking from a different generation.

After guessing wrong at the tone of the book, I repeated the mistake after taking a look at the format. Flipping through the pages, the format looks like a list of movies that the protagonist has seen. I got excited thinking that maybe I would read an intellectual perspective on several classics. As it turns out, this is not the case at all. Rather, the narrator uses the films, many of them forgettable B flicks, to locate the times in his life where formative events occurred. The list has nothing to do with building a relationship with the reader and is completely introspective and therefore autobiographical. There are no obvious ovations made to the reader, the ending is neither epical nor moral.

This is an exorbing portrait of a Chilean adult looking back at his life and past passions. I get the sense that many of the events described come straight from Fuguet's own experiences, but at this point I don't know enough about the author to be sure. In a way, it is not represenative of all or even most young Chileans. The narrator spends most of his childhood in California and holds a PhD in seismology. But it has a very subtle and captivating style that keeps the reader turning the pages and enjoying what she finds.
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Hola, Beltran. Habla Manuela, tu hermana. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
para mayores, terremoto del, mis abuelos, pude dejar, del aeropuerto, fui capaz, vino abajo, mis primos, estaba dentro, del cine, era capaz, las fotos, por suerte, del colegio, buena parte, mis padres, esa tarde, tres semanas, desde luego
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Santiago de Chile, Saint Luke, Estados Unidos, Federica Montt, Viviana Oporto, Jacqueline Bisset, Yul Brynner, Drew Wasserman, Las Condes, The Poseidon Adventure, Tyrone Acosta, Juan Antonio Mancini, Patrick Bellin, Dakota Lee, San Francisco, Tom Sawyer, James Brolin, San Diego, Soylent Green, Universidad de Chile, Edward Everett Horton, Juan Soler, Mark Lester, San Fernando, Willy Wonka
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