Chloe Aridjis

En un Berlín sombrío y como de ensueño, donde los fantasmas del pasado que moran en cada esquina están más vivos que la gente que pasea a diario por las calles, Tatiana, una joven mexicana, tras obtener una beca para la estancia de un año en la capital alemana aun con la cicatriz abierta de la reunificacion decide quedarse en esta ciudad que actua como un iman con ella y que se transforma en el refugio para huir de su vuelta a casa. Para sobrevivir se embarca en los mas variados y extraños trabajos, hasta dar con el doctor Weiss, un excentrico y solitario historiador que necesita a una persona que lo ayude a transcribir sus grabaciones de voz. Gracias a este, Tatiana conocera a Jonas, un meteorologo que busca en los continuos cambios de forma de las nubes un antidoto a la sombria realidad

Adrift in Berlin and with no desire to return home to Mexico, Tatiana cultivates solitude while trying to distance herself from the city''s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin - seeping in through the floorboards of her apartment, lingering in the abandoned subterranea - are more alive to her than the people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, her life in Berlin becomes more complex. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in the GDR, took solace in the sky''s constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his unyielding and grim reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begin to change. Unfolding with the strange, charged logic of a dream, "Book of Clouds" is a haunting, beautifully drawn portrait of a city forever in flux, and of the myths we cling to in order to give shape to our lives. From a crowded U-Bahn where Hitler appears dressed as an old woman, to an underground Gestapo bowling alley whose walls bear score marks of games long settled, Chloe Aridjis guides us through Berlin with wit and compassion, showing why cities, like people, cannot outrun their pasts.

Adrift in Berlin and with no desire to return home to Mexico, Tatiana cultivates solitude while trying to distance herself from the city's past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin - seeping in through the floorboards of her apartment, lingering in the abandoned subterranea - are more alive to her than the people she passes on her daily walks. When she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian Doktor Weiss, her life in Berlin becomes more complex. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in the GDR, took solace in the sky's constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his unyielding and grim reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begin to change. Unfolding with the strange, charged logic of a dream, "Book of Clouds" is a haunting, beautifully drawn portrait of a city forever in flux, and of the myths we cling to in order to give shape to our lives. From a crowded U-Bahn where Hitler appears dressed as an old woman, to an underground Gestapo bowling alley whose walls bear score marks of games long settled, Chloe Aridjis guides us through Berlin with wit and compassion, showing why cities, like people, cannot outrun their pasts.

Sea Monsters is a mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness that is never facile but serves as a profound and poetic tool for navigating our shared world. Chloe Aridjis is the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book; she is, for my money, one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today'' Garth GreenwellOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomas, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking recklessness, impulse, independence and may also help her fulfil an unusual obsession: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. They head for Zipolite, the Beach of the Dead, a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery. But as she wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.And so unfolds a phantasmagorical tale of adolescence, transgression and disenchantment in late 1980s Mexico, a place of long nights, insistent sun and relentless rain. Sea Monsters is an intoxicating evocation of past selves and buried histories, the pull of fantasy colliding with the stark light of reality a dreamlike yet vivid novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.

Maries job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the warder who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallerys masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn apart.

Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets ant illustrator turned meteorologist Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the skys constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...

« Pourquoi, Luisa ? » a demandé mon père.Une question comme un poing serré, une phrase comprimée en une apostrophe et reprenant sa forme comme sous l’effet d’un ressort. Les plongeurs de Symi chercha

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthyChloe Aridjiss stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mache monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, infusing them with a noble life force. In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings.Exploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, Dialogue with a Somnambulist showcases the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.

Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middleclass upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is a surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression, and its inevitable disappointments (Los Angeles Review of Books).One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeenyearold Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomas, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lackingrecklessness, impulse, independence.Tomas may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisas surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery. It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the Beach of the Dead.Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Set to a pulsing soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us."Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebalds or Cusks, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is selfcontained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea." Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

El nivel del aire, de Chloe Aridjis, es el segundo libro de la colección Escribir el Prado, tras El vigilante de sala, del Premio Nobel J.M. Coetzee. Este relato ha sido escrito en el marco del pro

"Un trabajo abrasador e hipnótico; sorprendente historia de encantamiento y desilusión." -Laura Esquivel, autora del bestseller Como agua para chocolate«Aridjis es muy hábil al conjurar ese embeleso

One of our boldest writers Deborah LevyA magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality.Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound.When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewellery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelminas son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware its not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered.One of the most brilliant novelists working in English today Garth GreenwellThe politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafkas Zadie SmithA subtle and courageous writer Ali SmithChloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange TLS

La segunda novela de Chloe Aridjis retrata la existencia contemplativa de Marie, guardia de seguridad de la National Gallery de Londres. Rodeada de pinturas, sus meditaciones la llevarán a obsesionarse con el significado de las grietas trazadas tanto en la superficie de los lienzos como en las emociones humanas. Sus cavilaciones se veran enfrentadas a raiz de un viaje a Francia en el que buscara comprender el deterioro que imprime el paso del tiempo en el vacio de la existencia.

La poesía como máquina de maravillas y las máquinas maravillosas como objetos dotados de una poética racional. Durante el siglo XIX el alma romántica ardió en las cercanías del espíritu positivo y produjo nuevas formas contradictorias, monstruosas, plenas de hallazgos mecanicos y literarios de figurar al mundo. ¿En donde se encuentran el tiro de dados mallarmeano y la linterna magica de Etienne-Gaspard Robertson? ¿La infernal alquimia de las vocales de Rimbaud con los automatas de Jean- Eugene Robert-Houdin? En su Topografia de lo insolito, Chloe Aridjis medita sobre la maquinaria practica y el andamiaje intelectual de los primeros ilusionistas y sus conexiones espirituales con un puñado de autores que transformaron la sensibilidad poetica de la cultura occidental: Nerval, Balzac, Mallarme, Rimbaud. El resultado de este cruce de informacion es una vista nueva y sorprendente del paisaje literario del siglo XIX frances, sin el cual nada se explica.