Novel
El que tiene sed
Not translated into English
Abelardo Castillo · 1985
Synopsis
Esteban Espósito breaks the neck of a whisky bottle on a kitchen counter, and the novel opens with a sentence saying that he should no longer drink, according to Hernán Carbonel. In his alcoholic nightmare, he wages a merciless struggle against the logic of the real, writes the publisher; his thirst cannot be quenched, because it demands only one thing, the secret of life.
Context
Published in 1985, the novel was reissued in 1989. Hernán Carbonel reads in it a fictionalised version of the author's dependence, who stopped drinking in 1974, and reports that the book brought him back to writing. The biography published by Planeta links the novel to the municipal literature prize. The Andrés Bello publishing house in turn reissued it in 1996, with the mention of second edition, according to the BnF.
Who it is for
A novel in Spanish about alcoholism, harsh and unsparing; no French or English translation.
Prizes and reception
For Juan Forn, cited by La Gaceta, the best portrait of alcoholism in the literature of his country.
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