El Temperamento Melancólico / The Melancholic Temperament [Spanish]

By Jorge Volpi

Book Overview

El arte es el ?nico juez ante el que puedo enfrentarme con la m?nima esperanza de ganar o de que, al menos, se retiren los
cargos contra m?
Cuando Carl Gustav Gruber descubre que tiene c?ncer y que pronto morir?, decide filmar la que ser? su ?ltima pel?cula. El director alem?n, afincado en M?xico, elige a nueve actores inexpertos con el objetivo de explotar sus caracter?sticas psicol?gicas.
En este microcosmos que retoma el Juicio Final como tema central del filme, y del libro de Volpi, los protagonistas conocer?n hasta qu? extremos son capaces de llegar.
El temperamento melanc?lico es una desenfrenada novela en la que Jorge Volpi ilustra las terribles consecuencias de fundir vida y arte, as? como la inevitable melancol?a que conlleva este peligroso acto.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"Art is the only judge that I can face with the faintest hope that I can win, or at least, that they will drop the charges against me."

When Carl Gustav Gruber discovers that he has cancer and will die soon, he decides to film what will be his last movie. The German director, settled in Mexico, chooses nine amateur actors with the objective of exploiting their psychological characteristics.

In this microcosm that has the Last Judgment as the central theme of the film, and of Volpi's book, the protagonists will find out what extremes they are capable of reaching.

The Melancholic Temperament is an unstoppable novel in which Jorge Volpi illustrates the terrible consequences of fusing art and life, as well as the inevitable melancholy that this dangerous act entails.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 6073154534
• ISBN13: 9786073154536
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Debolsillo
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.9" x 7.4"