Daniel Guebel Boeken

A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka's Letter to His Father. As his father's imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood. Without yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.

This monumental novel tells the story of the Deliuskin family's secret interventions in music, mysticism and revolutionary thought over the course of three centuries, spanning six generations. Each figure engages in obsessive and absurd acts, which depending on who controls the narrative could be genius or madness, so often indistinguishable. Countless minor characters also appear, intersecting with these stories in a suggestion of infinite parallel narratives. The title predestines this philosophical, political, historical, literary, sentimental, erotic, religious, scientific and artistic book to evocative incompleteness.

A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master. A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents’ attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka’s Letter to His Father. As his father’s imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood. Without yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.

«Ya es hora de que el alocado escritor argentino Daniel Guebel deje de ser el secreto mejor guardado de la literaturaen castellano.» —Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico Tres siglos de historia y una familia enloquecida y genial. El absoluto es la crónica de las seis generaciones que cambiaron el arte, la ciencia, la mística, la política y hasta el rumbo del Universo. Del Big Bang a la Revolución Rusa, de la música aleatoria a la máquina del tiempo, esta monumental novela, deslumbrante y desenfadada, sitúa a Daniel Guebel, definitivamente, entre los autores más virtuosos de habla hispana y entre los pocos capaces de escribir una obra que desafía a la propia literatura.

Matías y Josefina tienen tres hijos hermosos y una casa en un country que los mantiene alejados de los peligros de la ciudad y les brinda toda la seguridad que desean. Allí, rodeados de guardias, se creen destinados a una felicidad sin fin. Pero esta burbuja en la que viven no los protege del mundo, sino que los arrojará a otros peligros como los celos, la infidelidad y la muerte. Pero un acontecimiento extraordinario ocurre durante el viaje a Japón de un amigo del matrimonio, y el dolor se instala en sus vidas. Es la clase de dolor que cambia a las personas, las expulsa del paraíso y las enfrenta a un mundo para el que tal vez no estén preparadas: el mundo de las emociones violentas y las pasiones inesperadas. Novela romántica, realista, psicológica y fantástica, Ella nos ofrece al mismo tiempo el retrato de una mujer misteriosa e inolvidable, un recorrido exacto por el enigma y la locura de los celos, y un mapa de las crisis sentimentales de casados y solteros.