Ángeles del abismo

By Enrique Serna

2004

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Inspirada en un proceso inquisitorial del siglo XVII, Angeles del abismo narra la historia de la falsa beata Crisanta Cruz y el indio apostata Tlacotzin, una pareja de amantes enfrentados a las sociedad de castas y al poder de la Iglesia. Desde su ninez y obligados por la diversidad, ambos desarrollan una ferrea voluntad de sobrevivir y una refinada malicia para burlarse de sus opresores. Ellos son la columna vertebral de una hilarante intriga novelesca de alta tension, que desnuda los vicios privados y las virtudes publicas de la sociedad la teatralidad del misticismo, los laberintos barrocos del deseo reprimido, el culto clandestino de los dioses prehispanicos, los habitos serviles de la poesia cortesana, la sordida lucha por el poder financiero entre las ordenes religiosas, todo ello con el humor subversivo y la transparencia verbal que ya son senas de identidad en la narrativa de Serna. Fiel a la epoca que retrata y sin embargo contemporanea por sus recursos literarios, Angeles del abismo combina elementos de la novela picaresca, la comedia de enredo y el folletin, con un enfoque iconoclasta y postmoderno del virreinato, que renueva la tradicion de la novela colonialista en un fascinante retablo narrativo.

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Author

Enrique Serna

Author · 16 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."