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Bajar es lo peor

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Bajar es lo peor
Bajar es lo peor

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Bajar es lo peor

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La primera novela de Mariana Enriquez: tres adolescentes se asoman al abismo de las drogas, la destrucción y el amor. En el Buenos Aires nocturno, sórdido y vibrante de los años noventa del siglo pasado se mueven dos personajes: Facundo, un joven de belleza inalcanzable que se prostituye para sobrevivir y tiene miedo de dormir solo por las pesadillas que sufre, y Narval, un chico perseguido por seres oscuros y macabras alucinaciones. Un tercer personaje, la inestable Carolina, completa el trío, que se asoma al abismo de las drogas, la violencia, la destrucción y el amor. Escrita con diecinueve años y publicada en 1995, cuando la autora tenía veintiuno, esta primera novela de Mariana Enriquez estuvo largos años descatalogada y devino obra de culto. Leer ahora Bajar es lo peor permite acceder a los orígenes de la potente escritura de Enriquez y comprobar cómo en su debut como narradora ya aparecen muchas de las obsesiones que configurarán su universo literario. Pero el rescate de la obra no obedece solo a razones arqueológicas, pues, más allá de ellas, el texto ha resistido con brío el paso del tiempo, y su lectura permite descubrir que no es en absoluto una titubeante novela primeriza. Es una novela vampírica sin vampiros y una novela gótica sin castillos embrujados, cargada de un malditismo con ecos de Baudelaire y Rimbaud, y con una banda sonora de rock underground, dark y punk. Es un cruce –como la autora confiesa en el prólogo– entre Mi Idaho privado de Gus Van Sant y Entrevista con el vampiro. Y es, por encima de todo, una tenebrosa y fascinante historia de adolescentes convertidos en ángeles caídos, en la que se entrecruzan la muerte y la belleza.
Mariana Enriquez's first novel: three teenagers peer into the abyss of drugs, destruction and love. In the nocturnal, sordid and vibrant Buenos Aires of the nineties of the last century two characters move: Facundo, a young man of unattainable beauty who prostitutes himself to survive and is afraid to sleep alone because of the nightmares he suffers, and Narval, a boy haunted by dark beings and macabre hallucinations. A third character, the unstable Carolina, completes the trio, who looks into the abyss of drugs, violence, destruction and love. Written when she was nineteen years old and published in 1995, when the author was twenty-one, this first novel by Mariana Enriquez was out of print for many years and became a cult work. Going Down is the Worst gives access to the origins of Enriquez's powerful writing and shows how many of the obsessions that will shape her literary universe already appear in her debut as a narrator. But the rescue of the work is not only due to archaeological reasons, because, beyond them, the text has vigorously resisted the passage of time, and its reading allows us to discover that it is not a hesitant first-time novel at all. It is a vampire novel without vampires and a gothic novel without haunted castles, full of curses with echoes of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, and with an underground, dark and punk rock soundtrack. It is a cross between Gus Van Sant's My Private Idaho and Interview with the Vampire, as the author confesses in the prologue. And it is, above all, a dark and fascinating story of teenagers turned into fallen angels, in which death and beauty intersect.

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