Doble vida

by Magnus, Ariel

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Can anyone deceive the loved one in order to protect him or her from the cruel truth of love? Like broken magnets that first repel and then attract each other, the characters of this comical tragedy of entanglements swing between love and lovelessness, between fantasy and reality, between dream and wakefulness. In the confusion of these parallel lives, they stray into a diffuse reality that becomes clear when they all accept that they have deceived and been deceived. In his extensive and brilliant literary career, Ariel Magnus usually approaches from a marginal sector the crucial issues that are being debated in society. As if he had an antenna capable of capturing the sign of the times, but with a certain lag that makes him decode reality from the eccentric -in the sense of being out of the center- and, therefore, paradoxically, in a sharper, more forceful and notably more uncomfortable way. His style is recognizable in the marks of humor, absurdity, polysemy, logical contradictions.

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In his extensive and brilliant literary career, Ariel Magnus often tackles crucial themes being debated in society from a marginal perspective. It's as if he has an antenna capable of capturing the zeitgeist, but with a certain lag that allows him to decode reality from the eccentric - in the sense of being outside the center - and, paradoxically, in a sharper, more forceful, and notably more uncomfortable manner. His style is recognized by the marks of humor, absurdity, polysemy, and logical contradictions.

Author Biography

Ariel Magnus published Sandra (2005), La abuela (2006, translated into German), A Chinese Man on a Bicycle (2007, La Otra Orilla International Novel Prize, translated into seven languages and reissued in 2016), Dolls (2008, Juan de Castellanos International Short Novel Prize, adapted for the theater), Letters to My Upstairs Neighbor (2009), Winning is for Losers and Other Soccer Stories (2010), Double Crime (2010), The Seated Man (2010), The Squareness of Roundness (2011), The 31 (A Precarious Novel) (2012), To Luján (A Pilgrim Novel) (2013), Old Lady Hunter (2014), HowToBray (2015), The Laughter of the Bandurrias (2016), I'll Be Brief (One Hundred Concise Stories) (2016), The One Who Moves the Pieces (A War Novel) (2017, translated into French, German, Portuguese, and English), Abortion (An Illegal Novel) (2018), and The Unfortunate One (2020, finalist for the Biblioteca Breve Prize, translated into six languages). He edited the anthology of humor in Argentine literature "The Pleasures of Reading" and the misanthropic text anthology "Ode to Hatred," as well as Víctor Hugo Morales's radio narrative "Cosmic Kite" and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada's posthumous novel "Conspiracy in Tata Batata's Country." He is also the author of "An Athlete of Letters," a literary biography of Juan Filloy, and the Ideario Aira dictionary. As a literary translator, he has translated over thirty books from German, English, and Portuguese into Spanish.

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  • Publisher Editorial El Cuervo
  • Publication Date April 2022
  • Orginal LanguageSpanish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789917606086
  • Publication Country or regionBolivia
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 7 USD
  • Pages96
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language AuthorsSpanish
  • EditionFirst Edition
  • Copyright Year2022
  • Dimensions18,4x12 cm

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