Bücher von Andres Neuman

"Despues de Umbilical, uno de los mejores libros del aäno segâun El Cultural, Neuman profundiza en el misterio de un hijo en "uno de los mejores homenajes a la paternidad" (Babelia) Las emociones de un padre ante la iniciaciâon verbal de su hijo impulsan este libro repleto de hallazgos. Sus pâaginas exploran el enigma de los aprendizajes esenciales que jamâas recordaremos: empezar a caminar, hablar, formar la identidad y organizar nuestra memoria. Construyendo un luminoso relato lâirico, su voz rinde tributo a la primera infancia y a la lengua misma, fruto de un raro equilibrio entre enamoramiento y reflexiâon. Pequeäno hablante pertenece a un genero de literatura amorosa poco frecuente: la que un padre asombrado escribe para su hijo. Profundizando en el camino abierto por Umbilical, Neuman recrea con delicado humor los vertigos del tiempo, los vâinculos entre generaciones o los conflictos âintimos, dialogando con las actuales transformaciones en los roles familiares y en nuestra sensibilidad cotidiana."--

"The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman." -Roberto BolañoSearching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate-on identity and what it is that defines us-from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie. Though she is engaged to be married, Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about it. Traveler of the Century is a deeply intellectual novel, chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, literature, love, and translation. It is a book that looks to the past in order to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present. The winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Traveler of the Century marks the English-language debut of Andrés Neuman, a writer described by Roberto Bolaño as being "touched by grace."

"Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories. At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour him, until he's left with only the emptiness of himself and his daily misery. A parable of memory and deterioration, Andrâes Neuman's Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with a skeptical conscience; the impossible idealization of nature or first love with the moral and physical suffocation of the big city; being uprooted with returning to one's origins, with a language fascinated by both lyricism and rottenness"--