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Un Dulce olor a muerte (Sweet Scent of Death)
Una mañana muy temprano, Ramón descubre el cadáver de Adela en unos campos de avena cerca de Loma Grande. Ramón apenas había visto a Adela en un par de ocasiones, pero en el mismo instante en el que el muchacho cubre con su camisa el cuerpo desnudo de la muerta, comienza a difundirse el rumor de que Adela era su novia. A partir de ese momento, los hechos se irán desencaden...more
ebook, 224 pages
Published
August 25th 2009
by Atria Books
(first published July 28th 2001)
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Aug 28, 2011
Sally Whitehead
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Easily devoured in a few sittings, this is everything a decent novella should be really. Arriaga manages to condense a tightly structured plot with believable three dimensional characters into 150 pages. The pulsating pace builds tension nicely as we freewheel into the inevitable denouement; the slight ambiguity of the final closing lines adding just enough intrigue to help avoid predictability.
Arriaga's writing is almost cinematic (perhaps unsurprising given his background) and I mean this in a...more
Arriaga's writing is almost cinematic (perhaps unsurprising given his background) and I mean this in a...more
Goed geschreven, kan zo verfilmd worden. De auteur heeft dan ook vnl.filmscripts op zijn naam staan.
Er wordt een jonge vrouw vermoord in een klein dorp in Mexico. Haar vriend wordt geacht wraak te nemen op de moordenaar. Die wordt aangewezen dooe iemand, die deze man wel kwijt wil. Degene, die beter weet, laat het gewoon gebeuren.Het beokheeft veel weg van "Kroniek van een aaangekondigde dood" van Garcia Marquez. Wie de moord nu wel gepleegd heeft wordt niet duidelijk.
Er wordt een jonge vrouw vermoord in een klein dorp in Mexico. Haar vriend wordt geacht wraak te nemen op de moordenaar. Die wordt aangewezen dooe iemand, die deze man wel kwijt wil. Degene, die beter weet, laat het gewoon gebeuren.Het beokheeft veel weg van "Kroniek van een aaangekondigde dood" van Garcia Marquez. Wie de moord nu wel gepleegd heeft wordt niet duidelijk.
Mientras que leí este cuento por Guillermo Arriaga hace unos años, siento una compulsión de una vez que es parte homenage, parte sentimental y parte narcisista por lo haber leído Arriaga en español, de añadir su libro a mi lista.
Yo me pregunto que haría yo si hubiera encontrado un cadaver de una persona media conocida. No sé si tengo la tendencia de justicia y venganza en mis venas tal como tenía Ramon hacia el asesinato de Adela.
Yo me pregunto que haría yo si hubiera encontrado un cadaver de una persona media conocida. No sé si tengo la tendencia de justicia y venganza en mis venas tal como tenía Ramon hacia el asesinato de Adela.
Reading this was almost like reading a screenplay in terms of being able to so easily visualise every scene. That's not to say, however, the writing was short on prose, or dialogue heavy; Arriaga makes good use of every last word (I initially felt a little short-changed when I saw it was only one hundred and sixty pages long).
As a fan of his work in cinema, there was an added bonus of seeing the name of a character who becomes the subject of an entire movie, two or three years after the publicat...more
As a fan of his work in cinema, there was an added bonus of seeing the name of a character who becomes the subject of an entire movie, two or three years after the publicat...more
The author is Mexican and this was translated. A tight chilling little novel of murder, and timeless lawlessness in a little Mexican village. It could have been set in the 1800s, except its era betrayed by info such as the selling and smuggling of tape recorders.
Polished it off this afternoon in about 2-3 hours.
Polished it off this afternoon in about 2-3 hours.
I read this in Beograd in 2002. The surreal aspect of the novel is sublime; the chatter of the protagonist's neighbors not only informs his reality, it creates it and motivates his final actions.
Jul 01, 2009
pati morán montaño
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the ending...what a rip-off! for the last few pages i sat on the Cal west-gate entrance grassy knoll and when i read the last paragraph i couldn't believe it, "tu crees!?!" i yelled at the clouds. so i guess Arriaga's best works are those in which he intertwines through tragic incidents the lives of multiple characters and gives them more depth--such as Amores Perros and 21 Grams. i REALLY wanted to read more about Adela and Ramon, their encounters and especially the scene when Ramon finds her d...more
magical realism at its best, a labyrinth of curiosity
Me ha dejado un muy mal sabor de boca.
I'm still wondering if this book should be called a crime novel. The humour noir is spot on, it's funny, macabre but there's also some poetry and something truly irresistibe in that rather short story of an unsolved murder in some random Mexican village. Or how one may ends up being trapped by gossip, misunderstanding, secrets, mistakes, fantasies and general weaknesses. The biggest tragedies can be caused by such small things.
At first I liked this book considering I usually do not read crime/ policier novels. In the middle I realized how it will end but I kinda hoped that the events will take another turn. I guess it was in vain cause the ending left me with a bitter taste like the plot was left hanging... I don't recommend it.
This book was something...i didn't really bask it what i should have but I really want to know what others have to say about it....i didn't really find what others were so 'awed' about....
Pensò che i veri uomini non vengono mai abbandonati da una donna e che gli "addolorati" erano una manica di coglioni incapaci di decifrare i desideri femminili.
"...a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing."
Buen libro, entretenido, con reflejos de una realidad cotidiana. Personajes interesantes y con mucho carácter. ¡Muy recomendable!
He's become one of my favorite writers
Apr 09, 2013
Claudia
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommended to Claudia by:
Alison Gonçalves
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Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
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