Pre-Owned Largo recorrido: Fuerzas especiales (Paperback)
Diamela Eltit

Pre-Owned Largo recorrido: Fuerzas especiales (Paperback)

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In this 10th novel from author Diamela Eltit, the protagonist is a young woman from a marginal neighborhood who works as a prostitute in a cyber cafe, her life at the height of tragedy and misfortune. The setting is a section of town surrounded by police special forces. But in a sad yet defiant play on words, the special forces of the title also refer to the will required to resist, to survive on the edge of society under such forms of repression and oppression. Violence and the scars left on bodies both physical and social appear in many of Eltit's novels, carefully constructed with uneasy passages dealing with brutality, fruitless desires, illnesses, and harrassment by the police, whose constant presence makes residents live in fear. Her books are also known for their obscenity that goes beyond sexual meaning, never better said, in the horrible, terrible things that must be avoided or hidden. This sad, dark novel constructs a tale from various voices of the poor and the dispossessed who, despite all odds, try to survive with dignity in the middle of a world full of more and more sophisticated guns and new ways of killing. The intelligence and clarity of the main character gives readers a sliver of hope.

En Fuerzas especiales, décima novela de su autora, la protagonista es una joven de un barrio marginal que se prostituye en un cibercafé, en medio de una vida llena de desgracias familiares. «Voy al cíber a buscar en las pantallas mi comida. Todos se comen. Me comen a mí también.» El telón de fondo es un grupo de bloques sitiado por las fuerzas especiales de la policía. Pero, en un juego de palabras triste y a la vez desafiante, las «fuerzas especiales» del título son también las que se necesitan para resistir, para sobrevivir cuando se vive en los márgenes de la sociedad bajo tantas formas de represión y control.  La violencia y las marcas que deja en el cuerpo (también en el «cuerpo social») son habituales en las novelas de Eltit, quien construye este desasosegante texto sobre todo tipo de materiales de derribo: la brutalidad, los frustrados deseos familiares, las enfermedades, los asedios de la policía (cuya presencia es constante y hace vivir amedrentados a todos los habitantes). También es habitual en sus novelas una forma de lo obsceno que va más allá de su acepción sexual y se encarna, nunca mejor dicho, en lo horrible, en lo temible, en lo que se debe evitar o esconder. En este libro triste y oscuro, pero necesario, donde las voces populares construyen el relato de un modo casi bíblico, se castiga como en la realidad y como (precisamente) en el Antiguo Testamento: con total dureza.  Pero a pesar de que los desheredados de la tierra siempre lo serán, tratan también de sobrevivir dignamente (y de un modo muchas veces emocionante) en medio de un mundo con armas cada vez más sofisticadas, con nuevas formas de matar. Conviven entre sí, se sobreponen a su destino, nunca son indiferentes. Es más, según avanza la novela, la inteligencia y la lucidez de la protagonista nos hacen albergar alguna esperanza.
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