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Marina de Buenos Aires
Marina de Buenos Aires es, ante todo, una novela histórica y un romance en el sentido más clásico y literario. Plantea también un debate ético: ¿Deben los hijos pagar las culpas de los errores cometidos por sus padres? ¿Hay barreras insalvables para el amor cuando el límite excede todas las posibilidades aceptables?
La novela de Ezequiel Szafir cala hondo en la historia reciente de Argentina y hace de la literatura el mejor testimonio para ejercitar la memoria colectiva. Marina de Buenos Aires narra un período que coloca en contrapunto dos tiempos y dos espacios: Europa en la Segunda Guerra Mundial bajo el Nazismo, y la Argentina bajo el régimen militar de los 70. Una pesadilla recurrente da, desde las primeras líneas, el signo del inexplicable destino de los protagonistas: desde este ominoso inicio, la indagación sobre la verdad no se detendrá hasta dar con la luz. En medio de ese estado de situación, Marina y Ramiro viven todos los conflictos de dos enamorados que pertenecen a familias tan opuestas como enfrentadas.
Amor y desamor, exilios y desencuentros, erotismo y búsqueda de la identidad jalonan el relato. Terrible y lúcida, de acertados toques psicológicos en sus personajes, esta obra cumple con sobrados méritos el requerimiento de la máxima latina: “La obra de arte debe enseñar, emocionar y deleitar”.
La novela de Ezequiel Szafir cala hondo en la historia reciente de Argentina y hace de la literatura el mejor testimonio para ejercitar la memoria colectiva. Marina de Buenos Aires narra un período que coloca en contrapunto dos tiempos y dos espacios: Europa en la Segunda Guerra Mundial bajo el Nazismo, y la Argentina bajo el régimen militar de los 70. Una pesadilla recurrente da, desde las primeras líneas, el signo del inexplicable destino de los protagonistas: desde este ominoso inicio, la indagación sobre la verdad no se detendrá hasta dar con la luz. En medio de ese estado de situación, Marina y Ramiro viven todos los conflictos de dos enamorados que pertenecen a familias tan opuestas como enfrentadas.
Amor y desamor, exilios y desencuentros, erotismo y búsqueda de la identidad jalonan el relato. Terrible y lúcida, de acertados toques psicológicos en sus personajes, esta obra cumple con sobrados méritos el requerimiento de la máxima latina: “La obra de arte debe enseñar, emocionar y deleitar”.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 25, 2011
About the author
Ezequiel Szafir
4 books8 followersEzequiel Szafir, Ph.D. was born in 1971 in Quilmes city some 20 miles south of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his career as a journalist writing for mainstream newspaper Clarín and the financial daily Ámbito Financiero. He wrote hundreds of unnoticed columns, most of them covering sports, including gliding, which is his passion. He also contributed to several magazines down in Argentina and the US and Germany.
His first novel, Marina de Buenos Aires, was published in 2004 by Espliego in Argentina and by Penguin Random House in Europe. His latest novel, París 2041, was published in 2015 by Penguin Random House in the Spanish Language.
As for influences as a writer, he thinks there is Borges, and then the rest. The rest goes from Kafka to the more terrestrial Kundera, Auster, Steinbeck, and Roth.
Szafir holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Tilburg University in The Netherlands, where he lived for 10 years. He also studied literature at Cambridge University in the UK. His work is focused on the development of personality and Jung’s archetypal theory.
Szafir has worked as a consultant for Arthur D. Little and McKinsey and Co. has been a Partner in the Financial Advisory Services Practice at Deloitte, Strategic Planning and Operations Director at Nike, Vice President at Liberty Global, Managing Director of the Cortefiel Group, and Vice President at Amazon Europe.
He studied at the Engineering School of UADE University, has been a researcher at the MIT Center for Technology and Industrial Policy Development, received his Masters in Management from the ADL SOM in Boston, US, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In the past 20 years, he has worked and lived in Argentina, the United States, The Netherlands, Spain, and Luxembourg.
His first novel, Marina de Buenos Aires, was published in 2004 by Espliego in Argentina and by Penguin Random House in Europe. His latest novel, París 2041, was published in 2015 by Penguin Random House in the Spanish Language.
As for influences as a writer, he thinks there is Borges, and then the rest. The rest goes from Kafka to the more terrestrial Kundera, Auster, Steinbeck, and Roth.
Szafir holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Tilburg University in The Netherlands, where he lived for 10 years. He also studied literature at Cambridge University in the UK. His work is focused on the development of personality and Jung’s archetypal theory.
Szafir has worked as a consultant for Arthur D. Little and McKinsey and Co. has been a Partner in the Financial Advisory Services Practice at Deloitte, Strategic Planning and Operations Director at Nike, Vice President at Liberty Global, Managing Director of the Cortefiel Group, and Vice President at Amazon Europe.
He studied at the Engineering School of UADE University, has been a researcher at the MIT Center for Technology and Industrial Policy Development, received his Masters in Management from the ADL SOM in Boston, US, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In the past 20 years, he has worked and lived in Argentina, the United States, The Netherlands, Spain, and Luxembourg.
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