Matar Al Padre

Nothomb nos sumerge en el universo de la magia a traves de dos figuras: Norman Terence, un mago celebre, y Joe Whip, que se presenta en la puerta de su casa buscando un mentor y encontrara un padre adoptivo. Y, como dicta el mandato edipico del titulo, entre padre e hijo se establecera una relacion que oscila entre la fascinacion y la rivalidad, acrecentada por la presencia de la seductora Christina, una malabarista. No es tambien la literatura una forma de magia, y el escritor un generoso prestidigitador que mantiene lo real en suspenso mientras dura la fabula? Pero los magos siempre guardan algun que otro truco bajo su chistera, y la historia de Joe y Norman desvelara al lector un desenlace inesperado, sorprendente. / Nothomb plunges us into the universe of magic through two figures: Norman Terence, a famous magician, and Joe Whip, a boy who turns up at his door looking for a mentor and finds an adoptive father. And, as dictated by the oedipal order of the title, a relationship will be established between father and son that vacillates between fascination and rivalry, heightened by the presence of the seductive Christina, the juggler. Is literature not also a form of magic, and the writer a generous conjurer who keeps the real suspended while the story is told? But magicians always hide more than just another trick up their sleeve, and the story of Joe and Norman will reveal to the reader an unexpected and surprising ending.