Confession

R$ 110,90

Sinopse

Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina’s past and the passions of one young girl. When Mirta López looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed older boy on his way back from school. It’s 1941 in provincial Argentina, and the sight has awakened in her the first uncertain, unnerving vibrations of desire.Naturally, she confesses. But she cannot stop herself. Over thirty years later, in 1977, that same young man is a general, leading the ruling military junta of a country, and a cell of young revolutionaries plot an audacious attack on him, and the regime.Writing from the present into the past, Martín Kohan maps the contours of Argentina’s 20th century, but finds his centre in one woman – devout, headstrong, lit up with ideas of right and wrong – not the grand historical figures of her lifetime’s omnipresent, brutalizing history. And yet, there is great beauty in Confession , its decades and landscapes, and the legacy of love and guilt, pieties religious and civic, that play out in one family and against the background of dictatorship’s traumas.

Participantes

Autor: Martin Kohan

Autor

MARTIN KOHAN

Martín Kohan (1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina) é escritor, crítico literário e professor de Teoria literária nas universidades de Buenos Aires e da Patagônia. Autor de dois livros de contos, três de
ensaio e sete romances, entre eles Los cautivos (2000), Duas vezes junho (2002), Segundos afuera (2005), Museo de la revolución (2006) e Ciencias morais (2007), vencedor do prêmio Herralde e lançado no Brasil neste ano. Em seus romances, Kohan enfoca as formas diluídas e indiretas do controle social: a partir do dia-a-dia de um colégio portenho ou da Copa de 1978, constrói um quadro de muitos matizes sobre a ditadura argentina e seu significado para a história recente do país.