Ultimo Lector, El
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10352578M
- ISBN-139780307274038
- ISBN-100307274039
- OCLC Control Number58049652
- OCLC Control Numberelultimolector0000tosc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005428372
- LibraryThing576510
- Goodreads1034807
Classifications
- LCCMLCM 2006/01899 (P)
Description
"Hace meses que no llueve en Icamole, por eso Melquisedec, en una carreta jalada por un par de mulas, reparte el agua que cada día trae desde otro pueblo. Lucio se muere de hambre mientras regentea la biblioteca del lugar, sin otro lector que él mismo, decidiendo si cada libro ha de ser venerado o maldecido. En el pozo de su huerta, hoy Remigio ha encontrado el hermoso cadaver de una niña. La historia apenas comienza ... El último lector es una reflexión sobre el acto de leer, sobre la magia de la literatura y la inevitable comunión que existe entre ésta y la realidad; es, ante todo, una ovación por las novelas que saben embriagar y seducir. David Toscana, un narrador desquiciado, nos muestra que cada libro es capaz de actuar en la realidad a través de su lector. Las posibilidades, lo mismo en la vida que en la literatura, se abren y se cierran como un libro"--Cubierta. El último lector ("The last reader") revolves around the death of a girl: In Icamole, an abandoned town in the desert-like North of Mexico, bachelor Remigio finds her in his well and falls strangely in love with her. He only tells his father Lucio about it. While the police investigate the death of the little girl, Lucio, a librarian and the last reader of Icamole, searches for explanations in literature. He reads the books he likes while feeding the others to the cockroaches.
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