{"product_id":"amuleto","title":"Amulet","description":"\u003cp\u003eA short, intense, and deeply symbolic novel, published in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative takes place in Mexico City and is narrated by Auxilio Lacouture, an Uruguayan poet who, during the military occupation of the National Autonomous University in 1968, takes refuge in a bathroom at the Faculty of Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this confinement, Auxilio transforms the experience of fear into vision: a delirious recollection that blends the recent history of Latin America with the author's personal and literary mythology. Her voice, at once lucid and hallucinated, traverses time and memory like someone trying to rescue a lost generation: that of the poets and dreamers crushed by repression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"717\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAmuleto\u003c\/em\u003e is, therefore, an elegy to youth and art, but also a meditation on failure, violence, and the persistence of beauty. The text, with its poetic cadence and dizzying structure, reveals Bolaño's ability to transform political trauma into aesthetic material and, at the same time, into testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Bolaño (1953–2003),\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a wandering Chilean, lived what he wrote. Exiled, marginal, obsessive, he died young and left a monumental body of work. Between Mexico, Catalonia, and the endless night of Latin American poetry, he built a mythology of his own where surviving failure is the only possible victory. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quetzal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51937697890570,"sku":"0132026\/5004038","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/300x_3815149d-de12-4024-bd91-e8ad3c9dc430.webp?v=1760359541","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/amuleto","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}