La decomposición
Hernán Ronsino

FICTION | 2007 | 132 pages

With the ambitious writing that led to rave reviews, Hernán Ronsino’s first novel La decomposición (2007) inaugurates the trilogy set in the Pampas that includes Glaxo (2009) and Lumbre (2013).

In Bicho Souza, Abelardo Kieffer, and Pajarito Lernú’s town, the air is unbreathable at times. The feeling that something is broken hovers over the countless tales that make up these characters’ memories—a hunting accident, a crime, a tornado, a suicide: “something unpredictable is being worn down over the dark fabric, the bowels of this moment: and we don’t see it. We can’t stop it because we’re blind—and even if we did see it, we can’t stop it.” A lawless novel that seems to talk about the impossibility of narrating, but that also depicts a very clear time period in Argentina, one of social, familial, and individual decomposition dominated by weariness and the absence of a future.

Brilliant prose, where the historical, the literary, and the fictional converge, from one of the most solid contemporary narrative voices in Argentina.
 

RIGHTS: spanish ETERNA CADENCIA | german BILGER | serbian AED STUDIO

BY HERNÁN RONSINO:

Caballo de verano
FICTION, 2024
Una música
FICTION, 2022
Cameron
FICTION, 2014
Lumbre
FICTION, 2013
Glaxo
FICTION, 2009
La decomposición
FICTION, 2007