La metamorfosis del sabueso

The metamorphosis of the hound. Personal essays and other texts is a great example of the quality of Horacio Castellanos Moya as an essayist and the sagacity of his critical thinking. It brings together personal notes, reflections, articles, columns and short essays: pieces that, pivoting around the great themes that run through the author's work, involve the confluence of the literary essay with the history of violence that has marked his life. But this book is more than a literary treatise. It is a personal notebook in which the author displays the map of literary voices that have marked his writing and his career as a reader. Divided into three parts, the first, Brief Impudic Words, collects the author's reflections on violence, identity and the peripheral context of Central American literature; the second, The Metamorphosis of the Hound, focuses on musings and reviews on authors such as Canetti, Kérstesz or Bolaño; and the third is dedicated to his research on the work of Kenzaburo Oé and his relationship with violence. It is, in short, a volume that illuminates the narrative work of one of the great voices of contemporary Central American literature.