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Caballeros de fortuna by Luis Landero
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Caballeros de fortuna (edition 1995)

by Luis Landero

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Caballeros de fortuna is a choral story, written over the period of five years, brimming with that refined and difficult pleasure of restraint, both in composition and in language. A story in which all the characters enter the same labyrinth, each of them through a different access, and they all roam through it to meet at its center, where their fates unite and neither dispersion nor withdrawal are possible. This is the story of how five private lives become intertwined into one single collective destiny, which turns into an existential adventure. Some may find a treasure, others ruin or death, some maybe even glory, and what happens to some of them is an essential part of what happens to the rest, as in the old wheels of fortune.… (more)
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Caballeros de fortuna
Luis Landero
Publicado: 1994 | 270 páginas
Novela Drama

Una voz anónima, surgida de uno de esos grupos que asisten ociosos al espectáculo de las vidas ajenas, reconstruye un suceso en el que cinco destinos privados se van poco a poco entrelazando hasta convertirse en uno solo, colectivo: Esteban, el inocente, descubre de pronto el fascinante mundo del dinero, el lujo y el poder, y se empeñará a su manera en hacerse rico y poderoso; el pequeño Luciano, como para culminar el fervor religioso en el que le educaron, descubre el amor, un amor imposible, que sólo encontrará descanso en su plenitud; Belmiro, el viejo ilustrado, tras una vida de estudio, se topa de golpe con la irracionalidad de las pasiones; don Julio, comerciante de mercería, detecta un día en sí mismo insólitas dotes para convertirse en líder político; y Amalia se debate entre el amor transgresor hacia un adolescente y el afecto sereno que le ofrece un hombre otoñal. La fatalidad convierte estas vidas en una aventura en la que, como en las antiguas Ruedas de la Fortuna, se entrecruzarán la ruina y la muerte, el amor y la gloria.
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Caballeros de fortuna is a choral story, written over the period of five years, brimming with that refined and difficult pleasure of restraint, both in composition and in language. A story in which all the characters enter the same labyrinth, each of them through a different access, and they all roam through it to meet at its center, where their fates unite and neither dispersion nor withdrawal are possible. This is the story of how five private lives become intertwined into one single collective destiny, which turns into an existential adventure. Some may find a treasure, others ruin or death, some maybe even glory, and what happens to some of them is an essential part of what happens to the rest, as in the old wheels of fortune.

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