Publisher's Synopsis
Reseña:
&«La parte inventada ha despertado toda mi atención y admiración. Hay tiniebla en él, pero acoge luces en su interior, porque es brillante su prosa dirigida a lectores de antes; prosa que arde al modo de un cohete que como una araña explotara entre las estrellas y que incendia en su afán por extremar el estilo, la voz propia, y asì de paso, como quien no quiere la cosa, maniobrar como si nada se hubiera colapsado en el mundo editorial y Nabokov siguiera, imperturbable, moviendo alfiles en los atardeceres de Montreux, es decir, se pudiera seguir escribiendo como en los buenos tiempos.»
Enrique Vila-Matas, El Paìs
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
How does a writer's mind work?
The Invented Part is the first volume in the trilogy that Rodrigo Fresán dedicates to delving into the mind of a writer to uncover everything that happens in there.
The Invented Part seeks to answer that question (how a writer's mind works) by going deep into the mind of a writer who is trying to write his own story. Or to rewrite it in his own way. The story of someone who had some success a few years ago, in the last century and millennium, but who now feels that there isn't a place for him anymore, neither in the little literary world nor in the great big world.
And who-between the accelerated particles of letters by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, music by Pink Floyd, an antique wind-up toy, and the beach landscape of his childhood-believes that the time has come to tell his version of the matter…
"In time, they will ask him, over and over again, that whole, 'How do you think up the ideas you write about?'
That almost obligatory question that one responds to-that he will always respond to-with perpetually vague remarks or with certainty that is forgotten the next day. And he will ask himself how it is that they never ask him anything much more important, or at least more interesting. Why do they never ask him, 'How did you think of the idea to become a writer?'"
