Manuel Vilas
Autor(a) de Ordesa
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Obras por Manuel Vilas
Resurreccion. Xv Premio Jaime Gil De Biedma De La Diputacion Provincial De Segovia (2005) 6 exemplares
Poesía Completa (1980-2018): 3ª edición corregida y aumentada: 1059 (visor de Poesía) (2019) 5 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Vilas Vidal, Manuel
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-07-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Spain
- País (no mapa)
- Spain
- Local de nascimento
- Basbastro, Huesca, Spain
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 29
- Membros
- 406
- Popularidade
- #59,889
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 26
- ISBN
- 77
- Línguas
- 8
He agonises about odd noises and smells, changes rooms three times before he is happy, worries about insomnia and fights off his inner demons. These demons are whimsically personified as "Arnold Schoenberg": as in Ordesa, all the main characters are given the names of great composers, so that his parents are Bach and Wagner, his sons Bra(hms) and (Vi)Valdi, and his wife Mo(zart). Until the last few chapters, when an encounter with an old friend of his father's leads him to recast them all as Hollywood stars...
It's an interesting mix of postmodern reflexive autofiction with nostalgic celebrations of cosy domesticity: the narrator is clear that his greatest happiness in life comes from his love for his late parents on the one hand, and his sons on the other. Everything else is secondary to that, including the success of his book and his happy second marriage with Mo. I think it mostly works, the narrator is tough enough on himself to avoid it becoming too cosy, but just occasionally it feels a bit self-indulgent and sentimental.… (mais)