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Deze trilogie duikt in de diepten van de menselijke psyche en verkent het wachten als een existentiële toestand. Het onderneemt een reis naar geïsoleerde, vaak desolate landschappen waar personages worstelen met hun eigen verlangens, frustraties en paranoïde fantasieën. Elk verhaal is een meesterlijke studie van eenzaamheid en de langzame, nachtmerrieachtige neergang die personages ervaren, waarbij hun lot bredere filosofische vragen over de zin van het bestaan weerspiegelt. De stijl kenmerkt zich door precisie, weelde en een unieke mix van het archaïsche en het moderne.

The Suicides
Zama
The Silentiary

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    Zama

    • 201bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
    4,1(2072)Tarief

    An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.

    Zama
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    The Silentiary

    • 176bladzijden
    • 7 uur lezen
    3,8(285)Tarief

    In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication “To the victims of expectation” in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer’s words, “one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.”

    The Silentiary
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    The Suicides

    • 136bladzijden
    • 5 uur lezen
    4,3(13)Tarief

    The narrative follows a reporter investigating a series of seemingly unrelated suicides, delving into the broader implications and existential themes surrounding the act of suicide. This exploration serves as a profound reflection on life and despair, culminating in the third and final installment of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Trilogy of Expectation. The novel combines elegant prose with deep philosophical inquiry, making it a compelling read for those interested in the human condition.

    The Suicides