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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me (English Edition) di [Juan Pablo Villalobos, Daniel Hahn]

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‘I don’t expect anyone to believe me,’ warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he’s kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin—a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as ‘Projects’ and to others as ‘dickhead’ – who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make Laia, the daughter of a corrupt politician, fall in love with him. He accepts . . . though not before the crime boss has forced him at gunpoint into a discussion on the limits of humour in literature.
Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects – immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love – in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who’s telling the joke.

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And Other Stories
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30 aprile 2020
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'A funny, moving account of status, power and immigration, which also dips into comic literary theory and author hang-ups. Highly entertaining, with a magnificent sucker-punch finish.' Paul Ewen **** 'We laugh (a lot!), although perhaps we shouldn t, as each laugh carries the implicit admission that some of what we are laughing at is actually true.' Nadal Suau, El Cultural, El Mundo **** 'With a torrential, expressive rhythm, a continuous series of happy absurdities, the nostalgic sensibility of the immigrant and a devastating humour, Juan Pablo Villalobos has written a magnificent novel that provokes reflection on multicultural values and the meaning and importance of tolerance.' Jesús Ferre, La Razón **** 'An acerbic and entertaining story . . . a satire on cliché, and a defence of the vital importance of humour.' JL Martín Nogales, Diario de Navarra **** 'Hilariously caustic, furnished with highly stylized coarse humour . . . Villalobos steers us through the jokes and disasters, and especially the nonsense, which he redeems with a leavening sarcasm that turns reading the book into a highly valuable act of literary renewal.' Francisco Solano, El País **** 'I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me' is, among many other things, a playful and perverse game with the tradition of the Latin American perspective on Barcelona. And yet, the humour Villalobos employs is like that found in some of the most innovative recent Catalan literature. He is, clearly, a Barcelonan.' El Cultural **** 'By means of parody and the absurd, Villalobos latest novel I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me plunges the reader into a merry game of confusion. The various narrators present us with a world in which the lives of the characters become so tangled up that fiction and reality fuse into one, creating a work brimming with irony, nonsense and a humour so sharp it allows the reader to glimpse, just behind it, a reality that is hilarious in itself.' Zyanya Dóniz, Criticismo **** 'His novels are hilarious because they are about serious subjects. He expresses himself with the lucidity of someone who knows we are being cheated. Villalobos a bit like a Spanishlanguage Kurt Vonnegut manages to escape the clichés that his country endures.' Miqui Otero, El Confidencial **** 'Villalobos has found his own style and rhythm, distinct from all other writers on the Mexican narrative scene. He makes the reader laugh at the absurdity of life, showing us the essential meaninglessness of the world.' --Fernando García Ramírez, Letras Libres

'With a torrential, expressive rhythm, a continuous series of happy absurdities, the nostalgic sensibility of the immigrant and a devastating humour, Juan Pablo Villalobos has written a magnificent novel that provokes reflection on multicultural values and the meaning and importance of tolerance.' --Jesús Ferre, La Razón

'A sarcastic, entertaining and acidic story. A book that debunks literature, proposing the idea that a primary function of the novel is hedonistic. But, despite all its outrageous goings-on, this book becomes an artefact against reality, a satire against cliché, a literary artefact against meaninglessness and a defence of the vital importance of humour' --J.L Martín Nogales, Diario de Navarra --Questo testo si riferisce alla paperback edizione.

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Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature, before working as a market researcher, and writing travel stories and literary and film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. His books include his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut Down the Rabbit Hole, as well as Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Dog. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is his fourth novel.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, and he has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among others.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Z8JLR83
Editore ‏ : ‎ And Other Stories (30 aprile 2020)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 273 pagine

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Did not sustain early promise

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 11 giugno 2020

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I bought 'I Don't Expect Anyone . . .' on spec from a Guardian books review, because it sounded wacky, fun, interesting, out of the ordinary. The author has blended a transcontinental crime story (Mexico, Spain) with literary metafiction (a postgrad literary student the same name as the author doing the same course the author did in Spain tells a story about himself) and it's ambitious, I'll give him that. But at 39% in I gave up. There was no one I liked, not the protagonist, not the estranged Mexican g/f, none of the horrible emigré Argentines, Colombians or visiting Italians and no one back home. The story begins violently and leaves no one in any doubt that some bad stuff is going on. The plot, and that takes a while to reveal itself, involves the bullied and threatened Mexican protagonist being forced, while on a literary postgrad course in Barcelona, to cosy up to a rich and powerful man's lesbian daughter who's at the same University, and worm his way into (her) highly influential family's trust whereon the Mexican and local bad guys have plans. The target gal is lesbian and so seduction requires the estranged g/f to get involved. The book is an ambitious experiment but for me did not work on the criteria of keeping me interested duing a l-o-n-g read.

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Vigilantius

Inventive narrative voices ruined by ramblings and lack of a good story

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This novel starts off well, like a fire-cracker, with the urgent, dramatic voice of one of the four narrators. The lively inventiveness and buzzing energy of the main character's monologue is exciting to read.

There is a plot of sorts, but it is largely irrelevant, becoming more important later, though Villalobos deliberately confuses it with tedious post-modernist guff ... what we are reading is in fact the autobiographical novel of the main narrator (who has the same name as the author), with a mixture of truth and fiction, blah blah.

I don't mind this so much as the awful repetitiveness of the Mother's droning letters, where worries and suggestions are repeated several times even on the same page. The girlfriend's voice is more level, and gives a chance to more conventional story-telling, which is frankly a relief. Then there is the cousin, whose cloying rant is even more repetitive and annoying.

In all, I feel that this writer has a great gift for narrative voice, ruined by intellectual posturing and the fear of actually getting to grips with a meaningful story. The 'satire' label is no excuse.

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Rachel Sturley

Totally brilliant

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 28 novembre 2020

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I loved it ! an adventure, a thriller set in Barcelona. It was so well written. Two separate narrators both making sense on a situation. So well done. A must read. Anything by this author is excellent

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