Verdades olvidadas

Hay varias maneras de enfrentar el recuerdo de los padres y, en todas, siempre existe el riesgo de la evocación hagiográfica o el simple ajuste de cuentas, que terminan por convertir al narrador, el hijo huérfano, en el director de una película en la que controla todo: siempre resultan las peores. En Íntima y El origen de todo, dos libros entre los que media algo más de una década y que por primera vez se publican juntos, el uruguayo Roberto Appratto elude el lugar común que el género parece imponer a veces y asume los riesgos que implican dejar que la escritura fluya sobre la capa...

Two inseparable cousins around 12 years of age, Ceporro and Chino, live in the large flat that belongs to their grandmother after the Civil War. Don Rodolfo, who used to go sparring with Uzkudun, gives them boxing classes. Echoes of the Second World War, Field Marshal Rommel and the Nippon Empire provide the backdrop to the story, and then a young German girl, an orphan and a refugee, appears out of nowhere. As well as being a beautiful story about saying goodbye to childhood, its greatest achievement is the voice of its narrator, Ceporro the tireless charlatan.

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house...

Este libro recopila varios cuentos clásicos de Hans Christian Andersen, como La sirenita, El intrépido soldadito de plomo y El patito feo, con una maravillosa adaptación de mano del escritor colombiano Alvaro Vanegas. Así se mezlcan la melancolía y tristeza que caracterizaban al autor danés -que siempre estuvieron presentes en su vida- con el toque oscuro y macabro que caracteriza a Vanegas.