Adán en Edén (Adam in Eden)

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Adán Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino Holguín (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama "dar el braguetazo", y lo llevó de pobretón pasante de la carrera de Leyes a influyente abogado empresarial dueño de vidas y haciendas, aún más encumbrado que su suegro. Como le queda claro que la dicha conyugal, si acaso estuvo en sus planes, jamás llegará, establece una tajante frontera: de un lado quedan el tedio matrimonial y la ridiculez familiar, y del otro su esfera de poder y los encuentros eróticos con su amante Ele, real mujer de su ...
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Adán Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino Holguín (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama "dar el braguetazo", y lo llevó de pobretón pasante de la carrera de Leyes a influyente abogado empresarial dueño de vidas y haciendas, aún más encumbrado que su suegro. Como le queda claro que la dicha conyugal, si acaso estuvo en sus planes, jamás llegará, establece una tajante frontera: de un lado quedan el tedio matrimonial y la ridiculez familiar, y del otro su esfera de poder y los encuentros eróticos con su amante Ele, real mujer de su vida.
Así las cosas entra en escena Adán Góngora, ministro a cargo de la seguridad nacional, chiquito, pero picoso: minúsculo hombrecito por su baja estatura, pero gran calamidad por los alcances de su malicia. Dada la corrupción gigantesca de las fuerzas del orden, en las que la mitad de los policías son criminales y la mitad de los criminales, policías, tiene plena certeza de cuál es la mejor estrategia para combatir ese caos: "Todos sabemos que la seguridad nacional es insegura. Las fuerzas del orden se alían fácilmente con las fuerzas del desorden. Los policías ganan sueldos de miseria. Los criminales les multiplican el sueldo. De tres mil pesos mensuales a trescientos mil. El Ejército nacional hace labores impropias de la fuerza armada. Es un Ejército dedicado a labores de policía y derrotado por los criminales, mejor armados queellos . . . Yo haré una limpia de las fuerzas del orden. Menos policías y mejor pagados. A ver si así".
Pero, en los hechos, los métodos de Góngora son espeluznantes: se alía con los peores criminales y encierra o manda matar a los menos aptos; encarcela inocentes y a veces a uno que otro culpable, exhibe a éstos y a aquéllos y se gana a la opinión pública como garante de la justicia; también procede contra clasemedieros con dificultades hipotecarias y uno que otro millonario, para dar sabor al caldo; falsea las estadísticas de la lucha contra el crimen con su cosecha propia de jóvenes inocentes a los cuales manda asesinar y luego presenta como presuntos guerrilleros . . .
Un día, Góngora le propone a Gorozpe coludirse para elevar su jueguito al más alto nivel público: "Todos los políticos están quemados. Son inútiles. No saben gobernar. No saben administrar . . . ¿Qué tal si usted y yo, tocayo, apoyamos a un candidato imposible para la primera magistratura del país?". Ese candidato, claro, sería Gorozpe, sólo que para este momento éste sabe que debe deshacerse de Góngora, o al menos neutralizarlo. Está asqueado del personaje, de sus métodos, de tanta podredumbre. Incluso los cerdos ponen límites a la mierda que tragan. Y para mayor inri, un condimento: Góngora y Priscila parecen haber iniciado un affaire. ¿Cómo proceder contra tan formidable adversario? ¿Cómo detener el remolino que arrastra al país hacia la cloaca?
La única vía abierta siempre es la del espíritu. Ciega e irracional, pero también poderosa, avasalladora, la fe sigue ahí. Un Niño Dios alado empieza a predicar en medio del tráfico de la mayor avenida de la ciudad y su madre, la Virgen, lo acompaña. Las alas del niño son postizas y su madre es quien se las coloca, pero eso no importa. La gente cree, quiere creer, necesita creer, y eso basta.
La novela ofrece un gran final que da destino a todos los personajes, sin descuidar a ninguno, a través de la irrupción de los Sigfridos, brazo armado de la muerte que, convocados por Adán Gorozpe, llegan para arrasar con la plaga.

Comentarios:
El tono general es de farsa y en su desarrollo la obra ofrece varias escenas, incidencias y actitudes que propician las carcajadas, lo cual no deja de ser una interesante paradoja, pues la desalentadora situación nacional expuesta en la novela es en muchos aspectos idéntica a la situación nacional real, y en vez de reír el lector podría ponerse a llorar.
Pese a su evidente trasfondo mexicano y a algunos guiños estrictamente locales, o quizá también por eso, esta es, como todas las de su autor, una obra universal. Acerca del poder. De la naturaleza humana. De la esperanza. Del amor. De la fe. Dice el refrán: "En todos lados se cuecen habas".
Hay poca disertación y mucha acción. El motor de la obra es el clásico: las preguntas ¿y qué pasará después, en qué va a terminar todo esto? Con tales poderes a bordo, aunados a su corta extensión, queda claro que apuesta por la intensidad. Y la consigue en grado superlativo. Quienes ya somos lectores del autor la apreciaremos. Quienes no lo son, tienen aquí una seductora puerta de entrada, con tapete de bienvenida incluido, a este universo narrativo.

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Fuentes does not cease to amaze. This latest work is an uproariously comic novel that deals headon with many of the gravest issues of 21stcentury Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, selfabsorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile an apparently heavensent child prophet appears at a busy Mexico City intersection, stopping traffic while starting a national debate. Adán en Edén is entertainingly freewheeling with its themes and cultural references, which include poverty, drug violence, sex, Mexican history, telenovelas, U.S.Mexican immigration, and the Palm Pre smart phone. Fuentes even finds room for a precisely measured burlesque of Octavio Paz's role in promoting dogmatic factionalism in Mexican letters. The reader marvels throughout that the author of this fiercely perspicacious and laughoutloud funny novel is in his eighties: Fuentes's familiar wit and breadth of experience are here in spades, but he also packs a highvelocity edginess worthy of a writer a third his age. Recommended for readers of dystopian political fiction.—Bruce Jensen, Rohrbach Lib., Kutztown Univ., PA
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9786071103062
  • Publisher: Santillana USA Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 12/7/2009
  • Language: Spanish
  • Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
  • Pages: 177
  • Sales rank: 175,012
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 0.60 (d)

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