Martin Caparros

Comi Martin Caparros Spanish edition

Un hombre va a ser operado. Para serlo, debe vaciar todo resto de comida de sus intestinos, su estomago, su vida. El hombre tiene tres dias para deshacerse de todo lo que comio y deshacerse de si mismo y deshacerse. En esos tres dias el hombre recorre, a traves de sus comidas, su vida. El hombre, a veces, se parece mucho a Martin Caparros; a veces no. Misterioso y explicito, hedonista y paranoico, celebratorio y lloron, Comi es un libro extrano: mezcla de novela, memoria, ensayo, basurero, es el relato de una caida y es, sobre todo, una reflexion brutal sobre la comida, los cuerpos y la medicina. Una nueva y singular entrega de Martin Caparros, uno de los escritores indispensables en lengua espanola de nuestro tiempo. / A man is about to undergo an operation. Before, he must empty all the remains of what he has eaten from his intestines, his stomach, from his life. The man has three days to get rid of everything he ate, to get rid of himself. During those three days, the man goes in a journey through his life, seen through the prism of the meals he has eaten. The man occasionally looks a lot like Martín Caparrós; and sometimes he doesnt. Mysterious and explicit, hedonistic and paranoid, celebratory and defiant, I ateis a strange book: a mixture of novel, essay, literary trash can, its the story of a downfall and, above all, a brutal reflection on food, bodies and medicine. A new and original work by Martín Caparrós, one of the indispensable authors writing in Spanish today.