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Las Caricaturas me hacen llorar
2013
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Las caricaturas me hacen llorar es una selección de crónicas y ensayos en los que Enrique Serna ejerce la crítica sin cortapisas, con el tono desenfadado de una conversación entre amigos. Como en la tragicómica balada de Queta Garay que da título al libro, el afán por observar la vida cultural y política más allá de las apariencias despierta una mezcla de sentimientos que van de la irrisión a la náusea y de la perplejidad a la mueca burlona. La primera parte, ‘Risas y desvíos’, contiene reflexiones humorísticas sobre un amplio abanico de temas: la ternura empalagosa, la patología del estudio, el machismo torcido, la moral de los narcos, el tránsito del melodrama a la neurosis, la discriminación racial y la manera como se refleja en el español mexicano. Las caricaturas me hacen llorar is a selection of essays in which Enrique Serna exercises criticism without restrictions, with the casual tone of a conversation between friends. As in the tragicomic ballad by Queta Garay that gives the book its title, the desire to observe cultural and political life beyond appearances awakens a mixture of feelings that go from derision to nausea and from perplexity to grimace.

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Enrique Serna
Enrique Serna
Author · 17 books

Mexican author and screenwriter. He is the author of two collections of short stories. The first one, Amores de segunda mano (Second hand loves) is widely regarded as a milestone in the genre. His third novel, El miedo a los animales (Fear of animals), is a crime thriller which portrays the Mexican literary establishment to be as corrupt and hypocritical as the police force, particularly the Mexican Judicial police. This led to a great deal of resentment from the literary establishment, and gave him a wide array of attention. Recently, he has shifted the scope of his writing from the black humor and irony that characterized him to historical novels. Enrique Serna is widely regarded as one of the most important Mexican writers of the past recent years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the masters of Mexican literary orality, especially for his use of different social dialects of Mexico City in his novels, particularly in Uno soñaba que era rey. In 2000, Serna won the Premio Mazatlán de Literatura for his historical novel on Antonio López de Santa Anna. In 2005, he was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story "Eufemia."

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