Guillermo Saccomanno Bücher

»Kafka meets Blade Runner« El País Guillermo Saccomanno ist einer der renommiertesten zeitgenössischen Autoren Argentiniens. Nun ist er zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch zu entdecken. Sein Roman Der Angestellte zieht den Leser hinab in die Untiefen der menschlichen Existenz. Ein Großraumbüro in Buenos Aires: Was bedeutet Glück an einem Ort, an dem Menschen tagtäglich bestohlen, bedroht, erschossen oder in die Luft gejagt werden? An einem Ort, wo es Werte wie Sicherheit und Geborgenheit nicht gibt? An einem Ort, wo selbst der Mikrokosmos der Familie von Hass durchdrungen ist? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich Der Angestellte , und er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es nur eine Antwort geben kann: sich aufzulösen. Zusammen mit seiner heimlichen Liebe, der Sekretärin des Chefs, will er aussteigen, das System ausbeuten und verlassen. Doch nichts läuft so, wie der Angestellte es geplant hat. Er muss erkennen, dass nicht das Individuum den Lauf der Dinge bestimmt, sondern eine Allmacht, die er nicht bezwingen kann.

"Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare that not even his nightly forays into bars and bathhouses in search of anonymous sex can relieve. Things get even more complicated when he takes in two dissidents, putting his life at risk--especially since he's been having an affair with a homophobic, sadistic cop with ties to the military government. Told mostly in flashbacks thirty years later, 77 is rich in descriptive detail, dream sequences, and even elements of the occult, which build into a haunting novel about absence and the clash between morality and survival when living under a dictatorship"--Provided by publisher

"Perfectly normal men and women head to their desks every day in a city laid to waste by guerrilla incursions, menaced by hordes of starving people, murderous children and cloned dogs, patrolled by armed helicopters, and plagued with acid rain. Among them is the Clerk, who is willing to be humiliated in order to keep his job--until he falls in love and allows himself to dream of someone else. To what depths is a man willing to go to hold on to a dream? The Clerk tells a story that happened yesterday, but that still hasn't happened, and yet is happening now. A story we didn't even notice because we're too tied up in our own jobs, salaries, appearances. This novel embraces an anti-utopia, a world of Ballard but also of Dostoyevsky."-- Publisher description