Investigaciones y conjeturas de Claudio Mendoza (Narrativas hispánicas) (Spanish Edition)

Para el lector familiarizado con la obra de Luis Goytisolo, este es un libro en apariencia insolito. Pero solo en apariencia, ya que algunas de sus caracteristicas predominantes, el juego de los espejos, de los seudonimos, de las ficciones que encierran nuevas ficciones, asi como el sentido del humor, son rasgos en modo alguno ajenos a Luis Goytisolo. Claudio Mendoza, autor teorico del primero y del ultimo de los relatos aqui recogidos, se convierte en protagonista principal de la obra al analizar, en su calidad de concienzudo erudito, no ya el contenido de los restantes relatos y la personalidad de su autor, Luis Goytisolo, sino incluso el propio proceso de gestacion que ha culminado con la publicacion del libro por Anagrama. En un hipotetico encuentro entre Marx y Lenin, Que factor hubiera predominado en sus respectivos condicionamientos personales? Como se explicaria a si mismo el fracaso de un ligue de playa un incipiente seductor profesional? Cuales han de ser las caracteristicas de una novela que pretenda dejar atras los hitos alcanzados por Joyce? Estas preguntas, entre otras, son las que somete a examen Claudio Mendoza, siempre partiendo de la existencia real del texto analizado. / For the reader familiar with the work of Luis Goytisolo, The Investigations and Conjectures of Claudio Mendoza is a book that seems at first to be unusual. But this is only in appearance, as some of its predominant characteristics, the game of mirrors, pseudonyms, fictions that conceal other fictions, as well as its sense of humour (in this case its boundless), are traces that in some ways are alien to Luis Goytisolo. Claudio Mendoza, theoretical author of the first and last of the stories brought together here, becomes the main character of the work upon analysing, in his role of conscientious erudite, not only the content of the rest of the stories and the personality of their author, Luis Goytisolo, but also the process itself that resulted in the publication of the book by Anagrama. In a hypothetical meeting between Marx and Lenin, that factor would have predominated in their discrepancies? Would it have been the ideological factor or the incompatibility of their respective personal conditioning? How would an incipient professional of seduction explain the failure of a one night stand on the beach to himself? What should the characteristics be of a novel that is trying to leave the milestones Joyce achieved behind him? These questions, among others, are those which Claudio Mendoza examines, always starting from the real existence of the analyzed text.