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Bring me the head of Quentin Tarantino : stories / Julián Herbert ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 167 pages : illustrations, musical notation ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781644450413
  • 1644450410
Uniform titles:
  • Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The ballad of Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- M.L. Estefanía -- White paper -- NEETS -- The Roman wedding -- There where we stood -- Caries -- The dog's head -- Z -- Bring me the head of Quentin Tarantino.
Summary: "The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the ethics of art making. Herbert asks: Where are the lines between fiction, memory, and reality? What is the relationship between power, corruption, and survival? How much violence can a person (and a country) take?"--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction New HERBERT, JULIAN Available 33111010428288
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Virtuosic stories by one of "the more interesting and ambitious prose stylists of our time" ( Los Angeles Times )

In this madcap, insatiably inventive, bravura story collection, Julián Herbert brings to vivid life people who struggle to retain a measure of sanity in an insane world. Here we become acquainted with a vengeful "personal memories coach" who tries to get even with his delinquent clients; a former journalist with a cocaine habit who travels through northern Mexico impersonating a famous author of Westerns; the ghost of Juan Rulfo; a man who discovers music in his teeth; and, in the deliriously pulpy title story, a drug lord who looks just like Quentin Tarantino, who kidnaps a mopey film critic to discuss Tarantino's films while he sends his goons to find and kill the doppelgänger that has colonized his consciousness. Herbert's astute observations about human nature in extremis feel like the reader's own revelations.

The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the ethics of art making. Herbert asks: Where are the lines between fiction, memory, and reality? What is the relationship between power, corruption, and survival? How much violence can a person (and a country) take? The stories in this explosive collection showcase the fevered imagination of a significant contemporary writer.

"Originally published in 2017 as Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Mexico City"--Title page verso.

The ballad of Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- M.L. Estefanía -- White paper -- NEETS -- The Roman wedding -- There where we stood -- Caries -- The dog's head -- Z -- Bring me the head of Quentin Tarantino.

"The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the ethics of art making. Herbert asks: Where are the lines between fiction, memory, and reality? What is the relationship between power, corruption, and survival? How much violence can a person (and a country) take?"--Provided by publisher.

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