Novel
Una función con móbiles y tentetiesos
Not translated into English
Marcos Carías Zapata · 1980
Synopsis
Tegucigalpa, from the sixties to the eighties, seen as a social and cultural mosaic. Many voices and places are set side by side, with no crisis and no climax; we meet Julia, Amapola, David or Víctor Hugo, and death, football, beauty, politics, sex, strikes, work, religion, childhood and repression make up the plural image of the city.
Context
The novel appeared in 1980, three years after La memoria y sus consecuencias. Its structure is fragmented: the narrator splits into other narrators, time is reversed, history and fiction intersect. An essay compares its syntax to that of a post-war Spanish novel devoted to Madrid and its inhabitants. The Guatemalan critic Arturo Arias has called it difficult to read, little read and even less discussed.
Who it is for
A novel in Spanish, untranslated; its fragmentary construction makes it demanding to read.
Prizes and reception
Counted by José Antonio Funes among the ten key books of Honduran narrative, and regarded as the most ambitious novel written in Honduras.
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