Mala onda (Punto de Lectura) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Alberto Fuguet (Author)

Book Description

Series: Punto de Lectura | Publication Date: October 1, 2003

The chronicle of a trip through the excesses of cocaine, sex, marihuana, and alcohol against a backdrop of cynicism, pain and numbness. Matías Vicuña is a 17 year-old member of the elite in the 1980's Chile, a politically-charged era of Chilean history, when many people were struggling against the country's dictatorship. Matías struggles with the political situation at the same time as he tries to find himself.

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Alberto Fuguet (Chile, 1964) is a journalist, a movie and rock music critic, scrip writer, and novelist. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Punto de Lectura (October 1, 2003)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9562392023
• ISBN-13: 978-9562392020
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nace la nueva narrativa chilena, December 23, 1999

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"-cronopio-" (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mala onda (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Leí mala onda hace poco, y luego, impulsado por severas críticas a la versión inglesa -bad vibes-, leí tb menos que Cero y American psycho y el guardián entre el centeno; y, en verdad, aunque les enconmtré la constancia de narrador (el tiempo usado), no creo que este libro sea una copia de menos que cero, teniendo en cuenta que mala onda su publico un par de años después de estar escrito y salió a la venta casi a la par con el libro de ellis; o sea, éste sería algo más antiguo... Pero es bueno, no sé si lo entendí más porque soy adolescente o qué, pero el hecho es que ,e llegó de una manera distinta a los de Vargas llosa, siendo que me identifico con los libros de ambos (como que en, por ejemplo, la ciudad y los perros uno se ve reflejado en las acciones, mientras que en mala onda, yo, al menos, me sentía identificado con las "ideas" que llevaban, finalmente, a esas acciones). Fuguet recién esté empezando, y si de verdad quieren comprenderlo, DEBEn leer por favor, rebobinar, Tinta Roja, Sobredosis y mala onda, porque no es un escritor de un sólo libro.

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT GET THIS PUNTA DE LECTURA EDITION, November 29, 2008

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J. Kim (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mala onda (Punto de Lectura) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

This is NOT the complete version of the novel. No es la edición completa de la novela. It's missing crucial pages, páginas sumamente importantes. La edición definitiva , revisado por el autor, es publicada por Alfaguara/Aguilar.

4.0 out of 5 stars The first post-Pinochet Chilean novel, May 30, 2002

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Alvaro Diaz Valenzuela "alvaro-d" (Santiago Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mala onda (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Fuguet is the first author of a new generation of Chilean novelists who do not refer explicitly to our recent political past. Although many elements of the society of those years appear in his first novel, the plot is constructed along much wider concepts. The story evolves around the typical problems of a western teen ager, aggravated by his dismembering family. If one excludes the continuos references to places and people of early 80's Santiago, it could be said that the story is pretty 'universal'. As to Fuguet's influences, he recognizes his indebtedness to JD Salinger's 'The Catcher in he Rye' and Marcela Paz's Papelucho saga. On the whole, Mala Onda is a very good novel (with a great ending) that offers a different point of view and writing style to Latin American literature. If you like this one, you should definitely go on to Fuguet's later works.