La vida privada de los árbolesLa vida privada de los árboles
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Book, 2022
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Current format, Book, 2022, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Verónica tarda, Verónica se demora inexplicablemente y el libro sigue hasta que ella regrese o hasta que Julián esté seguro de que ya no volverá. De eso va "La vida privada de los árboles": de la noche larga y tal vez definitiva que Julián pasa esperando que su mujer regrese, que el libro termine. Hacia el final de ésta, la segunda novela del chileno Alejandro Zambra, Julián desea ser una voz en off, un coleccionista de historias ajenas; quiere escribir y no ser escrito, pero esperar es dejarse escribir: esperar es seguir una constante deriva de imágenes. Entonces la historia comienza mucho antes de esa noche última, tal vez una tarde de 1984, con la escena de un niño mirando televisión. Y termina con las inevitables conjeturas sobre la vida de Daniela, la hija de Verónica, a los veinte, a los veinticinco, a los treinta años, cuando ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que su padrastro le contaba historias sobre los árboles" --
"Verónica is late, Verónica is inexplicably delayed, and the book continues until she returns or until Julián is certain she will not return. That is what "The Private Life of Trees" is about: the long and perhaps final night that Julián spends waiting for his wife to return, for the book to end. Toward the end of this, the second novel by the Chilean Alejandro Zambra, Julián longs to be a voice-over, a collector of other people's stories; he wants to write and not be written, but waiting is allowing oneself to be written: waiting is following a constant drift of images. So the story begins long before that final night, perhaps an afternoon in 1984, with the scene of a child watching television. And it ends with the inevitable conjectures about the life of Daniela, Verónica's daughter, at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty, when a long time has passed since her stepfather told her stories about trees." --
"Verónica is late, Verónica is inexplicably delayed, and the book continues until she returns or until Julián is certain she will not return. That is what "The Private Life of Trees" is about: the long and perhaps final night that Julián spends waiting for his wife to return, for the book to end. Toward the end of this, the second novel by the Chilean Alejandro Zambra, Julián longs to be a voice-over, a collector of other people's stories; he wants to write and not be written, but waiting is allowing oneself to be written: waiting is following a constant drift of images. So the story begins long before that final night, perhaps an afternoon in 1984, with the scene of a child watching television. And it ends with the inevitable conjectures about the life of Daniela, Verónica's daughter, at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty, when a long time has passed since her stepfather told her stories about trees." --
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