Los ultimos dias de La Prensa / The Final Days of La Prensa (Jaime Bayly Collection) (Spanish Edition)

In Los ultimos dias de La Prensa, Jaime Bayly s third published novel, we find all the narrative qualities we have come to expect from Bayly but in an entirely different setting: This time we are not faced with a novel centered on bisexuality and cocaine. Rather, we find ourselves caught in the midst of sordid journalism, with all its satirical and burlesque reporting, as seen by a teenager who chooses this grimy and ludicrous context to initiate his voyage into adulthood and even his initiation into the arts of love. Humor and the absurd find the ideal vehicle in the extraordinary narrative skill present in the author s work.

Spanish Description:

Los ultimos dias de La Prensa, tercera novela publicada por Jaime Bayly, nos ofrece las conocidas cualidades de su autor en un registro distinto del que hasta ahora venia siendo habitual en el: no nos hallamos, esta vez, ante una novela centrada en la bisexualidad y la cocaina, sino ante la cronica satirica y burlesca del periodismo cutre, visto a traves de los ojos de un adolescente que lleva a cabo, en tan sordido y disparatado contexto, su aprendizaje de la vida e incluso su iniciacion al amor. El sentido del humor y del absurdo hallan vehiculo idoneo en la extraordinaria destreza narrativa de que da muestras el escritor.