Los Hombres Que No Fui / The Men I Was Never Able to Become - Simonetti, Pablo
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The confrontation of a man with his history, his class, his sexuality. Through a series of encounters with people who were part of his past, the narrator of The Men I Wasn't confronts his memory, his decisions and the drifts his life has taken, giving way to the portrait of "a world of beautiful, tyrannical and fruitless forms, of inculcated rules that could become deadly". With an enlightening look, combining melancholy and liberation, Pablo Simonetti writes about the possible lives that we are abandoning with each of our decisions, about belonging and exclusion, against the background of a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The confrontation of a man with his history, his class, his sexuality. Through a series of encounters with people who were part of his past, the narrator of The Men I Wasn't confronts his memory, his decisions and the drifts his life has taken, giving way to the portrait of "a world of beautiful, tyrannical and fruitless forms, of inculcated rules that could become deadly". With an enlightening look, combining melancholy and liberation, Pablo Simonetti writes about the possible lives that we are abandoning with each of our decisions, about belonging and exclusion, against the background of a burning Santiago that will allow the protagonist to leave the past definitely back.
Autorenporträt
Pablo Simonetti nació en Santiago de Chile, se tituló de ingeniero civil en la Universidad Católica y obtuvo un máster en Ingeniería Económica por la Universidad de Stanford. A partir de 1996 se volcó por completo en la literatura. Al año siguiente ganó el Concurso nacional de Cuentos Paula con el más afamado de sus relatos, «Santa Lucía». Este y otros cuentos se reunieron en Vidas vulnerables (1999), merecedor de la Mención Especial del Premio Municipal de Santiago. En 2004 publicó Madre que estás en los cielos, que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y es una de las tres novelas más vendidas en Chile de los últimos quince años. En 2007 presentó su novela más popular, La razón de los amantes. Sus últimas obras son La barrera del pudor (2009), La soberbia juventud (Alfaguara, 2013), jardín (Alfaguara, 2014) y Desastres naturales (Alfaguara, 2017), que se han publicado en Latinoamérica y España con una entusiasta recepción por parte de la crítica y los lectores.