Iván Thays
Gary Shteyngart
La dura Michiko Kakutani se ablandó frente a la nueva novela de Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story de la que, según dice, no tiene ni las pretensiones ni la afectación de su exitoso libro Absurdistan, aunque sí su sentido del humor y la parodia de la realidad política y social de Estados Unidos. Una historia de amor entre un emigrado ruso y una hija de inmigrantes coreanos. Cosa curiosa: en la novela, Estados Unidos está en guerra con Venezuela y presionada por China. ¿Ficción política?
Dice la reseña:
Gary Shteyngart?s wonderful new novel, ?Super Sad True Love Story,? is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance ? a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, ?The Russian Debutante?s Handbook,? but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It?s a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings.
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This novel avoids the pretensions and grandiosity of Mr. Shteyngart?s last book, ?Absurdistan,?even as it demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as one of his generation?s most original and exhilarating writers. (?)
In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr. Shteyngart gives us his most powerful and heartfelt novel yet ? a novel that performs the delightful feat of mashing up an apocalyptic satire with a genuine supersad true love story.
