Imagining Argentina
A Magical Realism, Fiction, Novels book. Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best...
Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of "the disappeared." But he cannot "imagine" what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit.
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: / 9780553345
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It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance. Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know. Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina When we first arrived at Auschwitz there were birds. I didn't know what kind, just brown birds, like the finches. They came for about a week and then the Nazis electrified the fences. I was out early the first morning they had the power on. A whole flight of these little birds came in and as they settled on the wire they made quick bright bursts of flame and smoke. The others did not know what was happening and they kept coming in and getting incinerated. The next day the birds did not come close to the camp. We saw them in the distance for a few days,...
This is probably one of my most favorite reads of all time because I learned about the "los desaprecidos" of Argentina told in a magical way that made it palatable. "The novel is about bearing witness and the ways of history itself." An extraordinary story about the power of imagination and hope to triumph over evil. "Tell me your stories. Tell me what they have done." Carlos has a gift; when the mothers, wives, husbands, sons of the desaparecidos tell their stories, Carlos finishes the stories, the power of his imagination reaching out into the dark to intersect... The material is rich with dramatic possibilities: Argentina during the dark days of military dictatorship in the late 1970s when thousands disappeared, abducted and killed for opposing, or just being critical, of the military regime.While I was reading it, for unknown reasons, I got this feeling that the author is constantly fighting...
