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La merma / The Decline (Spanish Edition)
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Product Details
Author:
María Moreno
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (December 8, 2026)
Imprint:
Literatura Random House
Release Date:
December 8, 2026
Language:
Spanish
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9786073878180
ISBN-10:
6073878184
Weight:
13oz
Dimensions:
5.2857" x 9"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_delta_active_D20260716T224957_157249696-20260716.xml
Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$19.95
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
24
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$15.36
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
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Yes
Overview
«Es la vida mínima de un animal capturado sin acceso al lenguaje, pero con la desgracia de comprenderlo.»
En el obcecado esfuerzo por recuperarse de un ACV que le paralizó el lado derecho desde el rostro a los pies, María Moreno observa lo que ocurre con su propio cuerpo y el de los que la rodean en la UCI, las habitaciones de una clínica asediada por el Covid y la sala donde los kinesiólogos la torturan con el mandato motriz: ¡a caminar! Del sexo pago al que puede aspirar la postrada, los influencers “disca” en TikTok, las ventajas y desventajas de amputarse un miembro para colocarse un garfio de carbono al cambio de estilo producto de la proeza práctica de escribir con la izquierda que mutila el barroco que era su marca… Con una ferocidad mordaz y una endiablada y novedosa ternura para consigo misma, esta autora cardinal empuja al desvío la suerte de toda la literatura en español de las últimas décadas. Contra el abismo de sí misma, el abismo de un idioma. Ante el vacío de una nueva existencia, el gesto de mirarse refleja la extrema vulnerabilidad de la especie. Y su pertinaz deseo de vivir.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“It is the minimal life of a captured animal without access to language but with the misfortune of understanding it.”
In her dogged effort to recover from a stroke that paralyzed the right side of her body from her face to her feet, María Moreno observes what is happening to her own body and those around her in the ICU, the rooms of a clinic besieged by Covid, and the therapy room where physical therapists torture her with the motor command: Walk! From the paid sex the bedridden woman can hope for, to the “disco” influencers on TikTok, to the pros and cons of amputating a limb to fit a carbon hook in exchange for a stylistic shift—the practical feat of writing with her left hand that mutilates the baroque style that was her trademark… With biting ferocity and a devilish, novel tenderness toward herself, this seminal author sends the fate of all Spanish-language literature from recent decades off on a tangent. Against the abyss of herself, the abyss of a language. Faced with the void of a new existence, the act of looking at oneself reflects the extreme vulnerability of the species. And its stubborn desire to live.
En el obcecado esfuerzo por recuperarse de un ACV que le paralizó el lado derecho desde el rostro a los pies, María Moreno observa lo que ocurre con su propio cuerpo y el de los que la rodean en la UCI, las habitaciones de una clínica asediada por el Covid y la sala donde los kinesiólogos la torturan con el mandato motriz: ¡a caminar! Del sexo pago al que puede aspirar la postrada, los influencers “disca” en TikTok, las ventajas y desventajas de amputarse un miembro para colocarse un garfio de carbono al cambio de estilo producto de la proeza práctica de escribir con la izquierda que mutila el barroco que era su marca… Con una ferocidad mordaz y una endiablada y novedosa ternura para consigo misma, esta autora cardinal empuja al desvío la suerte de toda la literatura en español de las últimas décadas. Contra el abismo de sí misma, el abismo de un idioma. Ante el vacío de una nueva existencia, el gesto de mirarse refleja la extrema vulnerabilidad de la especie. Y su pertinaz deseo de vivir.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“It is the minimal life of a captured animal without access to language but with the misfortune of understanding it.”
In her dogged effort to recover from a stroke that paralyzed the right side of her body from her face to her feet, María Moreno observes what is happening to her own body and those around her in the ICU, the rooms of a clinic besieged by Covid, and the therapy room where physical therapists torture her with the motor command: Walk! From the paid sex the bedridden woman can hope for, to the “disco” influencers on TikTok, to the pros and cons of amputating a limb to fit a carbon hook in exchange for a stylistic shift—the practical feat of writing with her left hand that mutilates the baroque style that was her trademark… With biting ferocity and a devilish, novel tenderness toward herself, this seminal author sends the fate of all Spanish-language literature from recent decades off on a tangent. Against the abyss of herself, the abyss of a language. Faced with the void of a new existence, the act of looking at oneself reflects the extreme vulnerability of the species. And its stubborn desire to live.
