Synopses & Reviews
"El atlas de ceniza" es el segundo libro publicado del joven narrador norteamericano Blake Butler y se ha descrito como una «novela en historias». Este oscuro y misterioso libro está formado por un puñado de relatos breves, una serie de delicadas pinceladas del Apocalipsis que, hilvanadas, nos hacen viajar a un paraje desolador donde madres, padres, niños y toda suerte de deformaciones físicas y fenómenos meteorológicos imposibles conviven bajo un cielo sucio y oscuro que augura, sin estrépito y blandamente, el ?n del mundo.
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"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . The design is appropriately disarming, an apt part of the overall barrage by this inventive and deeply promising young author." —Time Out New York, on the English-language edition
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"One of those truly original books that will make you remember where you were when you first read it. Scorch Atlas is relentless in its apocalyptic accumulation, the baroque language stunning in its brutality, and the result is a massive obliteration." —Michael Kimball, author, Dear Everybody, on the English-language edition
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"Theres something so big about Blake Butlers writing. . . . You wont be able to keep this man out once youve opened his book. Open it!" —Ken Sparling, author, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, on the English-language edition
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"A fine example of experiment with purpose, of world building, of decadent, detailed, and innovative writing. This is a book that should be read, and widely." —Pank Magazine, on the English-language edition
Synopsis
A bizarre, mysterious novel-in-stories,
El atlas de ceniza employs a variety of narrative forms. The short stories a series of delicate brush strokes of the apocalypse combine totake us to a devastating place where mothers, fathers, children, and all kinds of physical distortions and impossiblemeteorological phenomena coexist under a dark, dirty sky that foretells, without fuss, the end of the world. Stories include "The Disappeared," "Damage Claim Questionnaire," "The Ruined Child," "Seabed," "Smoke House," "Television Milk," "Want for Wish for Nowhere," and "Water Damaged Photos of Our House Before I Left It," among others.
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About the Author
Autor de la colección de cuentos El atlas de ceniza y de las novelas Ever (2009) y There Is No Year (2011), Blake Butler (1979) ha conseguido ocupar un lugar destacado entre los nuevos escritores de la joven narrativa norteamericana. Alabado por su estilo visceral así como por la erudición que destilan sus libros, Butler edita además el blog literario HTML Giant, así como las revistas Lamination Colony y No Colony.