Bøker av Horacio Castellanos Moya

Over grensen og hjem er den nye boken til en av Latin-Amerikas mest anerkjente nålevende forfattere.Erasmus Aragon bor i Mexico der han jobber som journalist, men drømmer stadig om å vende tilbake til sitt hjemland El Salvador. Han planlegger å starte et nytt liv og jobbe for et tidsskrift. Han ser det samtidig som en rømningsvei vekk fra det stormfulle forholdet til Eva, som han har en datter med. Men før han reiser besøker han legen Chente for å få hjelp med magesmerter. Legen foreslår hypnose og Erasmus blir etterhvert usikker på hva han har fortalt legen under behandlingen, samtidig blir han stadig mer paranoid ettersom han minnes mer og mer fra sitt tidligere liv i El Salvador.«Et velkomment, øyeåpnende bidrag til den nye litteraturen om det latinamerikanske marerittet"Anderson Tepper - Time Out New York «Det er dusinvis av øyeblikk i Over grensen og hjem, den kjappe, fantastiske nye romanen til Horacio Castellanos Moya, der leseren forventer at fortellingen beveger seg mot det surrealistiske. (...) Men det briljante med Hr. Castellanos Moyas nye roman, helt klart hans beste så langt, ligger i hvor urokkelig den nekter å benytte disse gamle triksene. (... ) den har den intense vitalitet til stor litteratur, den typen som viser det spesifikt menneskelige i omstendigheter der vår medfølelse ellers for det meste ville forblitt teoretisk.»Charles Finch, The New York Times «Herlig komisk og urovekkende (...) Castellanos Moya har gjort angst til en kunstform og en opprørshandling.»Natasha Wimmer - The Nation«Besk humor, som en Buster Keaton film eller en tidsinnstilt bombe.»Roberto Bolaño

Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya's relentless, obsessive narrator-female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable-paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse.Castellanos Moya's Senselessness was acclaimed "an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art" (Village Voice) and "a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials" (Russell Banks).

An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion Castellanos Moya's darkest book and perhaps his best: "A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud."

A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador.

A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger-after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.

The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya's ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernändez Marti¿nez - known as the Warlock - who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. Tyrant Memory takes place during the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Hayde¿e Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing the dictator's death over national radio during the failed coup, is forced to flee when the very much alive Warlock starts to ruthlessly hunt down his enemies. The novel moves between Hayde¿e's political awakening in diary entries and Clemente's frantic and often hysterically comic efforts to escape capture. Tyrant Memory - sharp, grotesque, moving, and often hilariously funny - is an unforgettable incarnation of a coun- try's history in the destiny of one family.