Daniel Saldaña París The Dance and the Fire review, recensie en informatie over de roman van de Mexicaanse schrijver. Op 29 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de Engelse vertaling van de nieuwe roman van Daniel Saldaña París, de uit Mexico afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.
Daniel Saldaña París The Dance and the Fire review en recensie
- “The Dance and the Fire is exuberantly strange, dark, and comic; an enthralling ode to Cuernavaca and the modern rebirth of medieval choreomania, as well as a prophecy about what happens when the built-up dread of our world on fire begins to seep into the soul. Daniel Saldaña Paris is an extraordinary talent, and his novel feels both urgent and true.” (Lauren Groff)
- “A kaleidoscopic, erudite, and sweepingly tender novel reminiscent of Sebald, if Sebald was on acid. The Dance and the Fire’s power comes from the ambitious (yet brilliantly compacted) range of its themes—fatherhood, eros, art, judgment, personal and archival aporia—that culminate in a book as capacious, porous, and resonant as history itself.” (Ocean Vuong)
The Dance and the Fire
- Auteur: Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico)
- Soort boek: Mexicaanse roman
- Origineel: El baile y el incendio (2021)
- Engelse vertaling: Christina MacSweeney
- Uitgever: Catapult
- Verschijnt: 29 juli 2025
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van de Mexicaanse schrijver Daniel Saldaña París
In a gripping, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed Mexican writer Daniel Saldaña París, three friends forever bound by erotic flames of the past reunite in a city engulfed by wildfires and an ecstatic dancing plague.
After years apart, three high school friends return to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where an intense love triangle once left an indelible mark on their adolescence. The city, surrounded by a ring of claustrophobic wildfires, brings out the past and confronts them with their present: they must once again face the entanglement of friendship and desire, the seemingly distant discovery of sexuality, complex parental relationships, and the daunting task of artistic fulfillment.
In the background, two forces of chaos and destruction are a constant presence. As fires ravage the physical landscape, one of the friends begins choreographing an ecstatic dance inspired by the German expressionist Mary Wigman and medieval Danse Macabre. What starts as a coping mechanism for the anxieties of youth and climate catastrophe becomes an overpowering, all-consuming hysteria. Mysterious powers are awakened, the boundary between reality and myth begins to blur, and the friends find themselves immersed in an increasingly turbulent and uncertain universe.
Daniel Saldaña París is born on 17 September 1984 in Mexico-City. He a Mexican writer based in New York and Mexico City. He is the author of the essay collection Planes Flying Over a Monster and the novels Among Strange Victims and Ramifications. In 2017 he was named on the Bogota39 list of best Latin American writers under 40.