Bad Vibes

by Alberto Fuguet

Book Overview

La historia gira en torno a un joven llamado Mat?as. ?l pertenece a la clase alta de una sociedad chilena en pleno t?rmino de la dictadura militar. En el comienzo del plebiscito que se est? dando para... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312150598
• ISBN13: 9780312150594
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fresh.

I read this book years ago and recently saw the film "Y tu mama tambien", which made me come back to Bad Vibes. I recommend them both. Mala Onda represents the new voice of Chilean writers, and of kids all over the world growing up amidst drugs, malls, boredom, etc. This book certainly tells a different story of Pinochet than all the history books I've read on the seventies and eighties in Chile. When will more of Fuguet's novels be translated into English?

great

I think that Alberto Fuguet has so much to say. He is the only who tell all the trut about Chile. Maybe he is a "bad copy of Sallinger" but we are in Chile and he try to make a different type of writing and he definitly is making that. Chile is so "cartucho" that Fuguet is the better writer in Chile.

Nace la nueva narrativa chilena

Leí mala onda hace poco, y luego, impulsado por severas críticas a la versión inglesa -bad vibes-, leí tb menos que Cero y American psycho y el guardián entre el centeno; y, en verdad, aunque les enconmtré la constancia de narrador (el tiempo usado), no creo que este libro sea una copia de menos que cero, teniendo en cuenta que mala onda su publico un par de años después de estar escrito y salió a la venta casi a la par con el libro de ellis; o sea, éste sería algo más antiguo... Pero es bueno, no sé si lo entendí más porque soy adolescente o qué, pero el hecho es que ,e llegó de una manera distinta a los de Vargas llosa, siendo que me identifico con los libros de ambos (como que en, por ejemplo, la ciudad y los perros uno se ve reflejado en las acciones, mientras que en mala onda, yo, al menos, me sentía identificado con las "ideas" que llevaban, finalmente, a esas acciones). Fuguet recién esté empezando, y si de verdad quieren comprenderlo, DEBEn leer por favor, rebobinar, Tinta Roja, Sobredosis y mala onda, porque no es un escritor de un sólo libro.

Good book

I, as a chilean, can say that the novel refects exactly the moment that Chile was in the 80's and how that determinated the thoughts of an 17 year old boy, that belonged to the most powerful social class in Chile.

Cool, contemporary and realistic view of South America

I lived in Chile two years ago and the book everybody was reading was Alberto Fuguet's MALA ONDA or Bad Vibes. I'm so excited i's finally coming out in English. It's a very cool, contemporary politcal story told by this rich kid who hates disco music, dances during the curfew, hangs out with surfers, snorts his dad's coke and reads american books and magazines. Bad Vibes is a fresh hurrican to come out of the typical magical realistic Southamerican landscape. This book is hip, real, funny and emotionally compelling. It's quite american and, on the other hand, it's so chilean. It's wierd how a dictatorship can affect a teenager's view. Matías Vicuña (the narrator) is still a teenage though, no matter what he sees. He just has to cope. I really recommend it. Ralph Anderson, Tucson, AZ