Ciudades Desiertas (Mti) / Deserted Cities

Esta novela inmisericorde es un altar en el que Jose Agustin eleva a la mujer, le reconoce su libertad.
Elena Poniatowska
Con una prosa agil y desenfadada, Jose Agustin traza el destino de Eligio y Susana en un mundo gris, superficial, aunque capaz de torcer el rumbo de cualquiera. El retrato [...]
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Esta novela inmisericorde es un altar en el que Jose Agustin eleva a la mujer, le reconoce su libertad.
Elena Poniatowska
Con una prosa agil y desenfadada, Jose Agustin traza el destino de Eligio y Susana en un mundo gris, superficial, aunque capaz de torcer el rumbo de cualquiera. El retrato de los personajes, a todas luces entranables, y la manera como la prosa se extiende sobre la geografia y la relacion amorosa, hacen de Ciudades desiertas una gran novela.
Ambientada en el fantasmal pero no menos atractivo Estados Unidos, los protagonistas se encuentran para perderse y, mas alla de la vision satirica de la sociedad estadounidense -respuesta a los tantos analisis superficiales sobre Mexico escritos por intelectuales anglosajones-, encontramos una reflexion sobre el hecho amoroso, la renuncia y la aceptacion. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
By Jose Agustin, essential writer in Mexican literature, who started a movement now known as La Onda (The Wave).
In this novel, we find a reflection about love, resignation, and acceptance.
Deserted Cities narrates the story of Susana and Eligio, a couple from Mexico City, who put their love to the test in a small, forgotten town in the United States.
The story begins when Susana is offered to participate in a writers program in the country to the north, a proposal that fits her like a glove because Susana needs her own space, her own adventure, to feel alive. Without thinking twice or consulting with Eligio, her husband and an often out-of-work actor, she takes the first flight that will help her get her life back.
Two months later, Eligio finally finds Susana and decides to reunite with her. To do this, he suspends the job he is working on and flies to meet her, only to find that she is sleeping with a Polish man.
Deserted Cities by Jose Agustin is an intense novel about the cycles of a loving relationship, the search for identity, the dispute between Mexico and the United States, the capitalist system, anger, and machismo.
Shocking and caustic, Jose Agustin returns with his Mexico City regionalisms and breaks the monotony of the town, where it seems like nothing ever happens, when we hear Eligio yell, Kiss my ass and Go to hell Deserted Cities is a novel of searching and liberation, a lesson in both human and romantic relationships that all lovers should read and apply."