Brandon Taylor

Vida real sigue a Wallace, un estudiante de posgrado, durante un fin de semana a finales de verano. Su padre acaba de morir, su trabajo está en riesgo y no logra conectar del todo con sus amigos más cercanos, tambien agobiados por sus propias tensiones. Tal vez en realidad la amistad no era mas que una forma de crueldad controlada. Quiza eso sea lo unico que hacen: lacerarse mutuamente con la esperanza de recibir un poco de amabilidad. O tal vez solo sea asi en el caso de Wallace, alguien sin amigos, alguien que no entiende bien como opera la amistad. Pero la crueldad si que la entiende. Y entiende la violencia, aunque la amistad lo exceda.Brandon Taylor tiene una capacidad excepcional para narrar con agudeza la manera en que las personas intentan vincularse. ¿Hay lugar para el amor en medio del sinsentido y la confusion? ¿Como se sobrelleva la incomodidad y la sensacion de no pertenecer? Esta novela, finalista del Booker Prize, es una investigacion profunda sobre lo que se puede hacer con el dolor y el trauma. Brandon Taylor, con una prosa sensible y lucida, logra crear un mapa compasivo y a la vez implacable de la intimidad y el deseo.Una primera novela brillante. THE GUARDIAN Taylor es un observador afilado no solo del trauma, sino tambien de sus consecuencias en las vidas de las personas. El autor aborda temas como la soledad y el deseo y, sobre todo, la posibilidad de encontrar sentido y felicidad en la propia vida. TIME Vida real es un estudio psicologico muy sofisticado de una persona que busca preservarse a si misma con la obligacion de tolerar a quienes amenazan esa seguridad. Quiza el mayor acierto del libro sea la fuerza del aislamiento de Wallace, algo que Taylor transmite con una singularidad muy extraña. THE NEW YORKER

The first collection of stories from the author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and winner of the Foyles Fiction Book Of The YearIn the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, a young man tentatively engages with the world again. Recently discharged from hospital, Lionel meets two dance students at a party. Charles and Sophies relationship is difficult to read but Lionel is drawn to them both. As he navigates their sexually fraught encounters he is forced to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness and to consider his return to life. Elsewhere, a little girl runs wild to the consternation of her childminder; unspoken frictions among a group of teenagers come to a vicious head on a winter night; and a woman dreads a first date only to find that something has cracked open.What connects these stories is the tension between the surface of things and the intensity of our inner worlds. With exquisite empathy, Brandon Taylor shows that though violence hovers at the edge of many encounters, so too does tenderness and love.

Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDYSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.

El autor nos proporciona en el presente libro una brillante síntesis y un análisis claro de las más actuales tendencias y movimientos artísticos de vanguardia. Entrelazados, a menudo sucesivos, complementarios y opuestos, ofrece un ilustrado recorrido de los mismos desde los comienzos de los setenta hasta nuestros dias. La obra rastrea el impacto del mercado del arte sobre los diversos estilos artisticos, los efectos del sida y las relaciones cada vez mas intrincadas de los artistas con los criticos, los conservadores de arte y los teoricos. Abarcando el mundo de los artistas desde la costa oeste de Estados Unidos hasta Nueva York, Inglaterra, Francia, Alemania o Rusia, "Arte hoy" constituye un estudio fundamental que enfrenta al lector a las complejidades del mundo del arte contemporaneo, a la vez que lo valora y lo clarifica.

Em seu romance de estreia, finalista do Booker Prize de 2020, Brandon Taylor narra o final de semana de um jovem negro e queer que saiu do Alabama, nos Estados Unidos, para estudar com uma prestigiosa bolsa de estudos. Wallace perdeu o pai ha semanas e nenhum de seus amigos da pos-graduaço sabe disso. Sem historia e identidade como so aqueles que rejeitam o proprio passado podem viver, ele mal se move pelos laboratorios da universidade, onde faz experimentos com criaturas microscopicas, e sente-se incapaz de criar vinculos com os colegas. Desde que recebeu uma bolsa, Wallace enxerga nos estudos a oportunidade de escapar do ciclo de pobreza e violencia de sua familia. No entanto, na universidade, as pessoas mais proximas so tambem aquelas que mais lhe do odio e tedio. Ele no entende quando Emma, uma das poucas amigas, se emociona ao saber da morte de seu pai e quando os colegas o abordam com condolencias, pressupondo um sofrimento que ele proprio acredita no sentir.O luto, no entanto, desencadeia um desconforto novo em Wallace como se a infelicidade fosse expurgada por uma força interna incontrolavel, prestes a romper tudo o que foi conquistado. E do desassossego surge o medo: se deixar para tras o pouco que construiu para si, o que fica? Se no pode ter um passado, se no suporta seu presente, o que resta e ter um futuro que no pode ser abandonado.Mundo real e escrito a partir do olhar de um personagem que, dessensibilizado pela dor, julga-se frio, avesso a vida, ainda que seja profundamente sensivel. Ao abordar temas que precisam ser articulados dentro e fora da literatura violencia sexual, racismo, homofobia, machismo, transtornos psicologicos, complexidades da vida academica , Brandon Taylor cria um romance de alta beleza formal, num estilo delicado e sutil, que sugere e emociona.

Desde a sua estreia na ficço com o romance Mundo real, Brandon Taylor vem se destacando como um cronista excepcional de nosso tempo. Descrito por Roxane Gay como "um escritor que exerce sua arte de maneiras absolutamente inesqueciveis", o norte-americano eleva suas habilidades em Vidas tardias ao criar, com destreza e sensibilidade, um mosaico de personagens, a maior parte deles jovens negros e gays, que so retratos fidedignos das angustias e incertezas da geraço milllenial.Em meio as ruas, aos bares e ao campus universitario de Iowa City, circula um grupo singular do ultimo ano da pos-graduaço. Entre escritores, dançarinos e musicos esto Seamus, um jovem poeta que no esconde dos colegas suas opinies afiadas; Ivan, que precisou abandonar a carreira na dança depois de um golpe do destino e passou a recorrer a pornografia amadora; Noah, um bailarino cuja personalidade o deixa exposto a relacionamentos tempestuosos; e Fatima, que, cercada por julgamentos dos outros, precisa conciliar turnos de trabalho em um cafe com os ensaios de dança na faculdade. Os quatro so confrontados por um elenco de professores, namorados, vizinhos e colegas que levam ao limite os dilemas relacionados a identidade e a carreira.Envolta em preocupaçes com o futuro, frustraçes com a vida artistica e buscas por conexo e autoconhecimento, essa constelaço de vidas mostra as forças multifacetadas que operam no presente a falta de horizonte, as diferenças de genero e classe, o racismo e a precarizaço , que esto refletidas nas personalidades, nas escolhas e nos relacionamentos desses jovens inquietos e talentosos. Com Vidas tardias, Taylor conduz a literatura contemporanea a novos rumos e estabelece diferentes parametros para o que ela e capaz de desdobrar.

Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.In a university town, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICEA GUARDIAN SUMMER READING CHOICEA new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir. -- The New YorkerA tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race. -- Colm ToibinWallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life thats a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didnt go back for the funeral, and he hasnt told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.Deftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain. This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish Id had sooner. -- Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesExtraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book. -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything UnderA stunning debut . . . There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry. -- New York TimesPsychologically compelling, incisively satirical, told in a muted style that nevertheless accesses a full emotional range, this is a brilliant book, worthy of a wide audience.ObserverWith the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope.Financial TimesTaylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.TelegraphWith its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylors novel is a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.GuardianAn elegant take on the "campus novel" and a deeply moving study of race, grief and desire.Sunday Times

Funny, merciless, brilliant . . . I loved it CURTIS SITTENFELDSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work out what they want, and who they are.As they test their own desires in a series of relationships, these young men and women ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? And what does true connection look like, in an age of precarity?A constellation of characters shines in [this] campus-set tale of aspiring artists Financial TimesIntimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youths promise Oprah DailyElegant and razor-sharp EMMA CLINE* A Daily Telegraph and FT Book of the Year *

Ils sont cinq étudiants à Iowa City et rêvent de devenir artistes... Seamus, poète sans argent et acerbe, Fatima, danseuse au lourd passé, Goran, Ivan et Fyodor, socialement opposés, sattirent et se

Cest la fin des vacances dété et Wallace retrouve son groupe de camarades au sein de la prestigieuse université du Midwest. Mais parmi ces jeunes gens Blancs et insouciants, Wallace peine à trouver s

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYA group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real LifeIn the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways. With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award A blistering coming of age story O: The Oprah MagazineNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harpers Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf AwarenessA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friendssome dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if its ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.

Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priestA genuinely swoony summer romanceNew York TimesStunning... an inquiry into desire, faith and what it costs to create beautyObserver, *Best of 2026*Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but hes struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects.Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk for art and for love.One of the most perfect books Ive ever readNPRA piercing, precise, and affecting tale of young love and high art KirkusBrandon Taylor is without a doubt our laureate of hyper-intelligent yearning - nobody does it betterLit Hub

Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priestA genuinely swoony summer romanceNew York TimesStunning... an inquiry into desire, faith and what it costs to create beautyObserver, *Best of 2026*Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but hes struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects.Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk for art and for love.One of the most perfect books Ive ever readNPRA piercing, precise, and affecting tale of young love and high art KirkusBrandon Taylor is without a doubt our laureate of hyper-intelligent yearning - nobody does it betterLit Hub

Con la universidad de Iowa como centro, en Los u;ltimos americanos conviven jo;- venes poetas, mu;sicos, profesores, chicos y chicas que se ganan la vida en trabajos precarios mientras intentan estudiar lo que consideran su pasio;n, alumnos cuyas familias tienen tanto dinero que pueden dedicarse solo a la danza, personas que nacieron en el lugar, que no tienen nada que ver con la vida universitaria y que observan un poco perplejos a los que llegan, se quedan un tiempo y despus se van. Entre todos ellos se arma una compleja trama de encuentros y desencuentros, de vi;nculos amorosos y violentos, de intentos de acercarse unos a otros sin dan;arse demasiado: a veces lo logran y otras fracasan de manera estrepitosa.Los personajes de esta novela, el mejor libro que el autor ha escrito hasta el momento, retratan fielmente una poca signada por la soledad, la impostura, la brutalidad, la confusio;n y la bu;squeda de consuelo. Los u;ltimos americanos consagra a Brandon Taylor como una de las voces fundamentales para entender a toda una generacio;n.Un libro de una sensibilidad exquisita y con destellos de profunda bellezaTHE NEW YORK TIMESLos u;ltimos americanos consolida a Taylor como uno de los novelistas ma;s importantes de su generacio;nTHE GUARDIAN"Taylor es el mejor escritor norteamericano actual". Garth Greenwell

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama.His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future...