El arte es el unico juez ante el que puedo enfrentarme con la minima esperanza de ganar o de que, al menos, se retiren los cargos contra mi Cuando Carl Gustav Gruber descubre que tiene cancer y que pronto morira, decide filmar la que sera su ultima pelicula. El director aleman, afincado en Mexico, elige a nueve actores inexpertos con el objetivo de explotar sus caracteristicas psicologicas. En este microcosmos que retoma el Juicio Final como tema central del filme, y del libro de Volpi, los protagonistas conoceran hasta que extremos son capaces de llegar. El temperamento melancolico es una desenfrenada novela en la que Jorge Volpi ilustra las terribles consecuencias de fundir vida y arte, asi como la inevitable melancolia que conlleva este peligroso acto. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Art is the only judge that I can face with the faintest hope that I can win, or at least, that they will drop the charges against me. When Carl Gustav Gruber discovers that he has cancer and will die soon, he decides to film what will be his last movie. The German director, settled in Mexico, chooses nine amateur actors with the objective of exploiting their psychological characteristics. In this microcosm that has the Last Judgment as the central theme of the film, and of Volpi's book, the protagonists will find out what extremes they are capable of reaching. The Melancholic Temperament is an unstoppable novel in which Jorge Volpi illustrates the terrible consequences of fusing art and life, as well as the inevitable melancholy that this dangerous act entails.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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9786073154536
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Book Title
El Temperamento Melancolico / the Melancholic Temperament