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    Un hombre sin cabeza: Y otros relatos

    By Etgar Keret and Ana María Bejarano

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    «Etgar Keret se ha convertido en la estrella más internacional de la nueva cultura de Israel.»Félix Romeo, Mercurio
    «Una poderosa imaginación en la que brilla la mejor literatura, de una imprevisible y sugerente ironía.»F. J. Fernández Vallina, Turia
    En este nuevo volumen de relatos, Etgar Keret plasma su peculiar visión de la realidad israelí y del mundo, mostrándonos, bajo una forma aparentemente sencilla, cuestiones profundas a la vez que cotidianas. Los 34 cuentos que componen este libro retratan una realidad que parece haber encontrado su equilibrio en el caos. Keret encuentra en los hechos más nimios de la existencia el material para contar sus historias; el resultado es una escritura directa, que nos hace sonreír ante situaciones crudas y trágicas. Un hombre sin cabeza es una muestra más de las razones que han consagrado a Etgar Keret como uno de los escritores contemporáneos de relato más populares del mundo.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherSiruela
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9788498417227
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    Un hombre sin cabeza: Y otros relatos
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    Etgar Keret

    Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His stories have been featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts. As screenwriters/ directors, he and his wife, Shira Geffen, won the 2007 Palme d’Or for Best Debut Feature (Jellyfish) at the Cannes Film Festival. His books include The Nimrod Flipout and Suddenly, a Knock on the Door.

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    • 3/5
      These short stories were fine. I did not find them as humorous, clever, or well written as other reviewers did.
    • 3/5
      I bought this book after watching part of $9.99 on netflix, and investigating the author. The stories are very short, which is appealing from a logistics standpoint (easy to read one or two of these each night before bed).
    • 5/5
      Hands down, Etgar Keret is unlike anything you'd ever read anywhere else. It's surrealism, yet through its surrealism, Keret explores the multiple facets of everyday life--all mostly in minimalistic flash fiction form. From love and loneliness, to family relationships and existential questions, Keret's collection never has answers, but despite it's surrealist bent, it manages to reflect human nature in realist form.The title story, for example, is a highly absurd tale of three friends who alternately become possessed by the spirit of their deceased friend, Nimrod, who killed himself after breaking up with his girlfriend. What ensues is a cycle of possession shared by the friends, until one of them gets married. In the end, there are only two left, as they contemplate a life that is lonely, yet lonely together.Loneliness is one of major themes in Keret's work. He speaks of men who are friendless, still haunted by their teenage days of teasing; guys who are lost even though they're in steady relationships; tales of hopeless desire and of girls who travel to another country to find out that they've been betrayed and they're going back alone. Again, despite the surrealism, Keret portrays human life dead on. It's sad at times, yet Keret makes sure to make it ironically hilirious at the same time and there are those moments of pure comic eurphoria. "Horsie" is one of them. So is "Baby" (perhaps the shortest story in this collection). While the length of some of these stories might leave some readers indifferent, asking "so what?", and his quirkiness can be overwhelming at times, undeniably, Keret is an entertaining writer, a wonderful craftsman, and his work a keeper in any collection.
    • 4/5
      brilliant collection of short stories - amusing funny ludicrous insightful and sometimes plain strange. A very entertaining read.
    • 5/5
      What can I say, except Etgar Keret is a genius! To borrow the words of William Blake, "To see a world in a grain of sand" is what Keret does with all of his stories - at first glance, it's just sand, but when you stop and reflect, the whole world is contained within. Keret's short, quirky stories are seemingly surreal or just plain odd, but in each and every story is a core that speaks loudly of humanity and its follies, idiosyncrasies, and lovability. I can't recommend Keret highly enough.
    • 4/5
      A series of strange stories--women turn into men, babies are born as small ponies--that are both disturbing and entertaining. The first story about a man with a beautiful lover who becomes a pot bellied, balding man at night, is my favorite.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic group of micro-stories from an enormously inventive and talented author. i've never read anything quite like this before; almost every line zings.
    • 4/5
      The Nimrod Flipout is one of the best collections of short stories that I have read in a long time. The characters, though strange and weird at times, are always easy to relate to on a human level. Keret's writing style is absolutely amazing. This book is laugh-out loud funny at some parts and incredibly touching at others. A well-rounded collection by a very talented author.
    • 5/5
      Sharp, concise, humorous, surreal, fresh, and truly brilliant.
    • 3/5
      Decided I just had to get this book and it leapt to the top of my reading queue. I understand the comparisons to Lydia Davis, but the majority of the pieces, while compact, have a little more breathing room than the typical Davis piece. A very, very few stories left me wondering, "Great writing, but what was the point?" I might've given the collection four stars, except for two stories. One might think that no good could come out of stories entitled "Actually, I've Have Some Phenomenal Hard-ons Lately" and "The Tits on an Eighteen-Year-Old." They weren't my favorites, but I was pleasantly surprised by their depth; that pushed it over the top for me.
    • 4/5
      I quite enjoyed them. The stories almost read as a book as the narrator in each of the stories has a similar voice. The surreal-ness seems a little forced in some of the stories, but when they feel natural, the stories shine.
    • 4/5
      Not a book I would normally pick up or think to enjoy but actually proved to be quite good reading. The voice is predominantly irreverent and adolescent yet somehow never too vulgar despite the common themes of sex, ogling, death and cheating spouses. As someone else put it, Keret writes from the authentic point of view of a 13 year old but with a sardonic and sometimes satirical underpining.
    • 4/5
      A collection of short stories, many with the thinnest of set-ups and most involving some kind of magical realism. The title story is about a group of four friends, one of whom kills himself at the age of eighteen. Over the years, the remaining three take turns, like on a rota, losing their minds, then recovering in time for the next guy to lose it. Some of the stories are just a page or two, but my favorite was a longer one, "For Only 9.99 (Inc. Tax and Postage)" about a young man who's father is enraged to find that his son is dumb enough to send off for a booklet from an ad in the back of the paper that promises to reveal the meaning of life.Keret's style is unique, taking mundane characters into surrealism, often using raunchy language, and endings that leave the reader with no resolution. The stories here were translated from the Hebrew by two different translators.
    • 3/5
      This collection of tales, some of them micro-short and so abbreviated as to constitute a kind instant video take on an absurd, surrealistic, humorous incident, are so original and true to their own quirky, adolescent, prurient voice that it is hard to evaluate them. Collectively, if the stories constitute a portrait of Israel in the post-Oslo Accords era, then the author sees a good deal of unreality, loneliness, zaniness, internet business deals, infidelity, and social transformation. In one particularly memorable story, the doctor who does an autopsy on a woman who has been a victim of a suicide bombing discovers that she is riddled with cancer and would have died soon in all events. Should the doctor tell the family or withhold the information? In another, an angry father continues to try to kill an aggressive dog belonging to his son that keeps on coming back. In another, two sets of identical twins marry, but one man kills the other after he discovers he has committed adultery with the other woman (few outside can tell these individuals apart). In another, a man who should be happy because he has everything visits India with his father, who dies, and meet some Israelis who use religion as an excuse to obtain sex and faux enlightenment. In “The Thought in the Shape of a Story,” we are on the moon, where thoughts take distinct shapes. One person decides to break the traditions and to build a unique spaceship that will enable him to venture into the universe to discover other unique thoughts (in unique shapes). This angers the other inhabitants of the moon so much that they destroy the spaceship, which leads to their own demise, since all their thoughts are in the same fatalistic shape. There is a good deal of allegory in these latter-day Aesop’s Fables on the situation in the Middle East and between the Palestinians and Israelis, and the indirection is delicious and a welcome antidote to political posturing.
    • 5/5
      There’s been a sort of quiet Keret hype brewing here on LT in the last few years, and after finally checking for myself I can totally see why (My sincere thanks to Eva -bookoholic13- who is the one who sparked my interest in this deliciously exact Israeli writer!) This is a collection of very short short stories, often just glimpses and mostly under ten pages long, and always with a subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) twist of strangeness. If I understand the label “slipstream” correctly, I guess it could apply to many of these stories. With such a short format, Keret can write many stories that basically are just about one idea or concept. Like the one about how the people on the moon destroyed themselves by making their thoughts manifest, or the one about a young man who realizes that his girlfriend turns into a big fat hairy male football fan every night, or the one exploring the parallel concepts of the main character dying and opening the first Laundromat in Israel. Those are very good, but I still think I prefer the stories that are more like snapshots, or slices of life. The ones that just brushes on lives, describing them ever so briefly in the oddest of circumstances. A pathologist discovers that the victim of a terror attack was terminally ill in undiagnosed cancer, and wrestles with if he should tell the family or not. A woman is embarrassed by her father arranging a visit in the cockpit after a hellish first travel abroad. Three friends are juggling the lingering madness of a dead friends between them, in turns. It’s very original stuff, and I can’t wait to read more Keret.One word of caution: These stories are really like potato chips. It’s impossible to have just one, but there’s also the risk of devouring too many at once, leaving a sense of oversaturation.
    • 2/5
      This is a very short book, of very short stories that you could probably read in a couple of hours, yet it took me weeks to get through. It felt like work, and I just didn’t want to pick it up. It’s not hard to read, the writing is overly simplistic if anything. It wasn’t even terrible, I actually liked a few of the stories, but too much of it was just tedious and dull. I have to say that it really wasn’t bad enough to warrant my reaction and reluctance to read it, I just didn’t click with it.

      It’s like a guy says "Dude, I’ve got a wacky idea for a story" and then writes that outline down. That’s all you get. The ideas aren’t really fleshed out, neither are the characters. There is a lot of sameness to the stories. A few of them have a surrealistic quality that I think is what appeals to people, and some of them worked, but a lot of it was just "what if my uncle was a banana?" with no further plot, and "I’m watching my girlfriend get dressed. The End."

      The writing was kind of stilted and clumsy, but I’m not sure how much of that was the translation.

      This is an instance where I can honestly say I just didn’t get it.