3.5
Buenos Aires Noir
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It is a city of contradictions and chaos; crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of traffic, and honking curses. Its inhabitants love the city and hate it—from the multimillionaires of Puerto Madero to the workers in the "misery cities," the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Often the mansions are separated from the shanties by nothing but a single street or railroad track.
These short stories of crime and corruption from a lineup of excellent authors highlights the relations between the social and economic classes—their tensions, their cruelties, and also their love—in a city that has reinvented itself many times over.
Brand-new stories by Inés Garland, Inés Fernández Moreno, Ariel Magnus, Alejandro Parisi, Pablo De Santis, Verónica Abdala, Alejandro Soifer, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Ernesto Mallo, Enzo Maqueira, Elsa Osorio, Leandro Ávalos Blacha, Claudia Piñeiro, and María Inés Krimer.
"As editor Mallo says, Buenos Aires is a city 'in love with its own disorder' . . . . Murder most foul, the star attraction of almost any good noir, makes several appearances here . . . .Mallo's well-balanced collection gives readers a glimpse of both the geography of Buenos Aires and its heart." —
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elizabeth
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Fabio Escudero
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“Como toda antología tiene cuentos muy buenos mezclados con otros que no lo son tanto. En general está muy bien, para mi los mejores son los de Inés Garland, Claudia Piñeiro, Pablo De Santis, Alejandro Parisi y Enzo Maqueira, porque muestran algo distinto, no repiten hasta el cansancio el decálogo del cuento policial, sino que se animan a ir más lejos.
Otros me gustaron porque tienen una poesía que es raro encontrar en obras de este género, por ejemplo: "La calesita giraba, esclava de su órbita breve, de cabotaje: los caballos subían y bajaban soltando un chirrido agudo, metálico; un auto despintado reflejaba el sol en las incrustaciones de lata que cubrían sus luces vacías; y un avión, inmóvil, sin hélice, se sacudía con el salto de los niños que lo ocupaban."
En definitiva, un buen compilado de cuentos policiales, para pasar un buen momento.”
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“I liked how some of these authors approached the noir genre, many leaving the supposition of the crimes to their readers' imagination.”
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About Ernesto Mallo
is an Argentinian journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, and also the organizer of BAN! Buenos Aires Negra, the international noir novel festival. He has published ten prize-winning novels that have been translated into seventeen different languages. He lives and works in Buenos Aires and Barcelona.
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