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Tres ataudes blancos
Three White Coffins is a thriller in which a solitary, unsociable guy is forced to take on the dentity of an opposition party leader and go through a variety of risky situations in an attempt to overthrow the totalitarian regme of a Latin American country called Miranda. This bizarre thriller plot is, however, a sort of empty structure, a skeleton in which the novel grows widly and unpredictably, gushing from the mouth of the hero. The outrageous, unhinged, hilarious narrator uses all his words to question, ridicule and destroy reality (and to reconstruct it like new from scratch).
Three White Coffins is an open, polyphonic text, capable of multiple readings. It can be understood as a fierce satire of Latin American politics or a sophisticated reflection on individual identity and impersonation.