Новинки Фернандо Вальехо

Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, The Abyss , is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medellín, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Darío, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother’s inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Céline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country (“I wipe my ass with the new Constitution of Colombia”) and at his mother (“the Crazy Bitch”) who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family’s Santa Anita farm (the lost paradise of his childhood where azaleas bloomed); and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss―as if in the eye of Vallejo’s hurricane of talent―we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.

Cuando Carlos salió del cuarto me acerqué a la cama, me senté a su lado y me incliné sobre él: sus ojos suplicantes se cruzaron con los míos por última vez. ¿qué me quería decir? ¿Que lo ayudara a vivir? ¿O que lo ayudara a morir? A vivir, por supuesto, él nunca quiso morirse.



Fernando, un escritor colombiano que vive en México, vuelve a su patria de nacimiento para acompañar en sus últimos días a su hermano Darío, enfermo de sida. Darío se ha instalado en la casa familiar. Entre la abundancia de recuerdos sobresalen los dedicados a su padre que, junto a su hermano Darío, es el único miembro de la familia a quien Fernando quiere.

En Medellin, una de las ciudades mas violentas de la tierra, un Angel Exterminador recorre las calles "limpiandolas" de una buena parte de sus habitantes, у librando, de paso, al narrador de lo que parece molestarlo mas: el projimo. Alexis, el angel, es un chiquillo de las barriadas, un "sicario" о asesino a sueldo, sin padre у sin ley. Poseido por el misticismo de la destruccion, su vida avanza sobre charcos de sangre.Y mientras las iglesias, mudos testimonios de una religiosidad antigua, se vacian de fieles, la morgue se llena de cadaveres.

Пожилого писателя и юного наемного убийцу, встретившихся в колумбийском городе Медельин, центре мирового наркобизнеса, объединяет презрение к человечеству. Они без раздумий убивают каждого, кто покушается на их покой.

«Богоматерь убийц» — автобиографический роман колумбийского классика Фернандо Вальехо, экранизированный в 2000 году культовым режиссером Барбетом Шредером.

«Это книга, основанная на душераздирающем опыте, остроумная, высокомерная и безжалостная». Марио Варгас Льоса

«Фернандо Вальехо не щадит никого. Наследник Вольтера и маркиза де Сада, он глумится над женщинами, бедняками, политиками, церковью и своей родиной. Он не скрывает, что любит животных больше, чем людей, а своим любимым развлечением называет литературную провокацию». Альваро Матус

Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill: like an Angel of Death he opens fire on anybody who rubs him the wrong way. Fernando and Alexis are bound by an intense passion as they wander from church to church, murder to murder. When Alexis is finally killed himself, Fernando unwittingly takes up with his killer. Reminiscent of the best of Genet, Our Lady of the Assassins is a dark, fierce book that squarely lays the blame for Colombia's tragedy on the church and the political elite.