Olvido Kitap Bulutlar</DNTCTMS> / Juan Jose Saer / Olvido Kitap</DNTCTMS> / 9786257027410

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We went away from the water for a whole day and went to the desert without a single thing, and when we camped in front of the round, red and low sun, which highlighted the outlines of objects with a bright reddish moonlight at dusk, i had the impression that the place we arrived was the very center of the desolation, rather than fear, as a gark of sadness. On this flat land, which the night will soon swallow, under this foreign, sun that crushes and despises people, i thought for a while that there was no living creature other than us. I examined the entire horizon, but i could only hear the sound of the wind's whipping, the bent grasses, and the chill of the southerly breeze. Despite knowing that this desert teemed with life – not just animal life, but also the life of nomadic and solitary humans – this inhuman aura of the landscape tugged at my heartstrings.

In 1804, in the vast grasslands of argentina, dr. real, a young psychiatrist who had just finished his studies in paris, and his five patients, accompanied by a small guard unit, embark on a fifteen-day journey to the asylum, which was built in the north of buenos aires. This arduous journey, tested by native american attacks, massive desert storms, and, above all, the excesses of the mentally ill, is recounted by the book's narrator, doctor real, thirty years later. This narrative, in saer's pen, transforms into an allegory of migration, even an exile. Clouds, one of the last works of juan josé saer's life, with the translation of orçun türkay...

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