Caballo de verano
Hernán Ronsino
FICTION | 2022 | 208 pages
The stories that make up Caballo de verano are divided into two parts that can be linked with two well-defined gestures. Inside the book, two zones are marked—one that responds to an aesthetic belonging to the Argentinian countryside, recognizable by its siestas and arid paths, and another that crosses these limits and is housed in urbanity, even in faraway cities. Toward the outside of the book there are also two zones, but this time those in the first part were written throughout the course of several years while those in the second part are more recent.
A young woman who dreams of playing a part in the telenovela she watches every day while doing chores around the house; two friends who live different adventures while they steal peaches from the neighboring field; and the backdrop of a couple’s life where a devastating secret lies are some of the stories that Hernán Ronsino constructs in this story with a perspective that is as gentle as it is precise, confirming him as one of the strongest and most captivating Argentine authors in recent times.
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“In contrast to a model of frenzied literature that attempts to imitate an audiovisual language that will always have the upper hand, Ronsino opts for slowing the literary down even more to double down. The result is an environmental, Faulknerian literature that has become the best of his style.”
“Starting with his pampas trilogy (La decomposición, Glaxo, and Lumbre), this author who has been translated into eight languages has established himself among those who believe in ‘the art of narrating,’ as Juan José Saer titles his only book of poems—meaning, the slow construction of a plot in the interiority of a handful of characters, the possibility of working with tradition.”
BY HERNÁN RONSINO:
Caballo de verano
FICTION, 2024
Una música
FICTION, 2022
Cameron
FICTION, 2014
Lumbre
FICTION, 2013
Glaxo
FICTION, 2009
La decomposición
FICTION, 2007