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El país de las últimas cosas
El país de las últimas cosas
El país de las últimas cosas
Audiolibro6 horas

El país de las últimas cosas

Escrito por Paul Auster

Narrado por Mariam Torres

Calificación: 3.5 de 5 estrellas

3.5/5

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Un fascinante viaje post-apocalíptico hacia la desaparición del ser humano de la faz de la tierra.
«Poderoso, enigmático, imaginativo y tratado con maestría… Uno de los mejores intentos modernos de describir el infierno», The Washington Post.
«Recuerda en muchos sentidos a 1984 de Orwell. Auster crea en estas páginas un lugar tan real que podría ser nuestro propio país, tal vez nuestra propia ciudad», The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
«Una breve obra maestra», Sunday Telegraph.
«Una fábula fascinante y onírica sobre una sociedad peculiarmente reconocible», Publishers Weekly.
«Esta novela implacablemente abstracta se mantiene, sin embargo, arraigada en el mundo cotidiano y, por lo tanto, resuena como verdad moral e histórica. Un logro asombroso», Kirkus Reviews.
«El país de las últimas cosas es el futuro distópico de Paul Auster; una novela tensa y cautivadora, tan desgarradora e intelectualmente lúdica como Beckett», Time Out.
En el país de las últimas cosas todo tiende al caos, las calles desaparecen y ya no hay nacimientos. Anna Blume cuenta en una carta lo que sucede allí: llegó para encontrar a su hermano William y descubrió una tierra en la que la búsqueda de la muerte ha reemplazado a los avatares de la vida. Para sobrevivir, Anna se convierte en una recolectora de objetos del pasado que vende a cambio de comida y refugio. Pero también encontrará esperanza en este mundo desolado.

  Maravillosa incursión de Paul Auster en el terreno de lo distópico, su aportación al género es tan inquietante como bella. Ambientada en un futuro distante pero turbadoramente reconocible, nos envuelve en una atmósfera al mismo tiempo tensa y fascinante; un lugar en el que resuena más fuerte que en ningún otro sitio la pregunta de qué es lo que nos hace realmente humanos.

  Auster de nuevo ponía al límite su talento con un texto «poderoso, enigmático, imaginativo y tratado con maestría… Uno de los mejores intentos modernos de describir el infierno» (The Washington Post), un reto imaginativo y formal que acabó cristalizando en «una breve obra maestra» (Sunday Telegraph).
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EditorialPlaneta Audio
TraductorM.ª Eugenia Ciocchini Suárez
Fecha de lanzamiento30 jun 2025
ISBN9788432248665
Autor

Paul Auster

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.

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  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5

    Dec 10, 2018

    In the Country of Last Things is a sublime dystopian novel which, from what I've seen, doesn't get a lot of attention. It was the first Paul Auster book I read and it turned me into a lifelong fan. Very dark, as is to be expected given the genre. Let's hope things don't go to this extreme in the real world.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5

    Jun 7, 2018

    odd but compelling novel
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5

    Dec 15, 2015

    In the Country of Last Things was a journal about a womans life as she hunts for her lost brother during the colapse of civilization. Even though a name is never give to the city for some reason I always pictured it as New York. Auster descriptions danced around me as I read about the trials and tribulations of Anna.

    Paul Austers writing was sparce, not a word was wasted. I wish there had been more. I could have read for much longer.

    I would definitly recomend this book to others.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5

    Feb 26, 2015

    Amazing voice, compelling and it sucked me in immediately... very dark, amazing book I am ashamed for having not read until now.
  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5

    Mar 19, 2012

    I have nothing against post-apocalyptic stories. I'm not a fan of despair. Sadly, "In the Country of Last Things" used the setting merely as a conveyance mechanism for despair, without stopping to teach us anything of value along the way.

    Early chapters provide a sort of grand tour of a bleak, poverty-stricken cityscape, in which the last vestiges of the old world are sloughing off, revealing the inhumanity of its inhabitants. Our narrator, Anna, then switches to a tale of how she came to be there, and the various events and misadventures that beset her along the way.

    At no point are we allowed to see Anna as any more than a weary, desperate remnant of a person. Even the "good" times she describes are filtered through the smoky glass of her present reflection.

    I question how well the author was able to get into his narrator's head. Several passages rang particularly untrue; the lesbian scene and its immediate aftermath felt gratuitous and hollow. In other places, Auster managed to adequately convey the grinding torment of Anna's existence, though not in a way that made me sympathize with her.

    The novel does end with a note of hope, but without anything approaching what might be termed a climax. Thus, the novel reveals itself for what it is: a tired and tiring travelogue to a place we would never want to visit, in the company of a character I would never care to know.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5

    Jul 25, 2010

    Grim dystopian society related by narrator and yet there are moments where she finds joy even among the rubble of society. Not a light read but I enjoyed it.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5

    Sep 24, 2007

    Anna Blume arrives in an unnamed city to search for her brother - a journalist who has vanished without a trace. The city is one of unspeakable destruction and horror, where dead people lie in the street (either by their own hand, or from hired assassins, or from starvation or violence). Things disappear daily along with memories. To survive, Anna becomes an object scavenger, gathering up things from the past to sell for food and shelter. Who and what can survive in this bleak and desolate city?

    Paul Auster's novel is written from Anna's point of view - and presented in a letter she writes to someone in her past. For Anna, there is no going back "home."

    Unable to go back, and uncertain about going forward, the reader learns how Anna survives and what she finds in a place where everything seems to be lost.

    The novel is not particularly hopeful - the characters not only lose the past, but also their faith.

    The novel is well written and I found myself turning the pages seeking the same answers that Anna seeks. Auster offers a glimmer of promise - but, ultimately I finished the book with a feeling of disappointment.