El disparo de Argón
Juan Villoro

FICTION | 1991 | 264 pages

Two themes drive the suggestive plot of El disparo de argón: the gaze and the city. A defined space serves as a link: Dr. Suárez's eye clinic, the Mexican version of the famous Barraquer Clinic in Barcelona. The building built by Suárez aims to aid with sight and vision, health, and the transcendent forms that enter through the eyes. But this takes place in a convulsive Mexico, where organ trafficking is an active component of the informal economy. The dream has been perverted and Suárez cannot be located; the great prophet of sight has become invisible. His disciple Fernando Balmes must find the thread that leads to the master. Everything that passes through his eyes—the city, the clinic, others—is subjected to the rigor of the ophthalmologist until something clouds his horizon: a woman alters the glass with which he sees the world and a web of shadows takes him into a country where what’s urgent isn’t curing eyes, but rather selling them.

RIGHTS: spanish ANAGRAMA | french DENOËL | german DTV

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