¡Que Viva la Música! by Andrés Caicedo Editorial Seix Barral (Spanish Edition)

Publisher: SEIX BARRAL
I.S.B.N: 9789878319704
Number: 280
Language: SPANISH
Format: BOOKS
Binding: PAPERBACK
Classification: Books - Fiction & Literature - Novels - Latin American
Publication Date: 01/2022

"Live Forever" is a coming-of-age novel. It's an invitation to an endless party; where its protagonist lets the world sink into the bottomless pit of their own excesses. But with happiness. With absolute bliss. There's a secret pact with death in this dance of María del Carmen Huerta, the blonde protagonist of its pages. But it's the sweet death of celebrations: the landscape, the affections, the night, the fleeing childhood, the triumphant adolescence, rock and roll, the Rolling Stones, salsa, Ricardo Ray, Bobby Cruz, drugs, Cali (or Kali, according to the narrator's spelling). It's also an initiation into the discovery of a Colombian city (unique, magical, unrepeatable), which begins in the northern sky, with its Avenida Sexta, its Parque Versalles, and its magical places, to reach the southern inferno with its Pan-American booth, its Pance River, its neighborhoods beyond Miraflores, its winged Andes mountain range, and the shelters of salsa and sex.

Andrés Caicedo, the author of this delirious verbal journey, would end his life on the same day the published copy of this novel arrived. Time passed much faster than death anticipated. "Live Forever" became a cult book, a generational manifesto, and a sort of guide to excesses, a manual of base instincts, a treasure of lost youth, which is read with the pleasure of someone who plunges into the abyss with a motto: "get high and then collapse."