Author: Amelie Nothomb
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Pipe Metaphysics tells the story of the first three years of life of a being obsessed with water that, dissatisfied with its environment, adopts the inert form of a pipe as its existential condition. With the cruelty, humor and realism, the author recalls, through a story that combines philosophy and plumbing, episodes of her Japanese infancy that took place in Osaka. / Metafísica de los tubos cuenta los primeros tres años de vida de un ser obsesionado por el agua que, disconforme con su entorno, adopta la inerte forma de tubo como condición existencial. Con la crueldad, el realismo y el peculiar humor al que nos tiene acostumbrados, Amélie Nothomb rememora, a través de una narración que combina filosofía y fontanería, episodios de su infancia japonesa, transcurrida en Osaka. Que la protagonista de esta novela sea un bebé superdotado que opta por vegetar, que se autoproclama Dios y que se niega a manifestar sus emociones hasta que descubre el sentido de la vida en una barrita de chocolate y la muerte en un estanque habitado por repugnantes carpas, constituye un acto de coherencia con un universo literario en el que la obsesión por venerar el paraíso de la infancia es un tema recurrente.
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Collection: Compactos
BISAC Code: FIC019000
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