Some months after the siege, the narrator relates his conversation on a train to Bolivia with Blanca Galeano who served six months in jail for her association with the gang and was now fleeing from the authorities. The heroes were determined to confront and resist the insurmountable, and chose death as their destiny. Tough guys, from out of the toughest jails, broken on the electric grill, surrendering at last, after being forced to listen to Commissioner Silva insulting and applying the torture machine to them for hours on end, to get them to spill the beans.
View all 18 comments. Piglia escribe de manera sencilla, sin florituras. Pero no es nada malo una vez que te acostumbras. Una lectura agradable. More than a novel of criminals, it's a novel of losers; of children who have spent their lives from house to house; lost and abandoned children; and they found in violence delinquency came later a way out of their boredom. Even a crude novel, between shooting and shooting, Piglia finds moments of love and tenderness and a certain amount of existentialist reflection.
There is also implicit criticism of corruption between the police and senior officials of the Argentine administration. Piglia writes simply, without flourishes. Sometimes the story becomes journalistic and goes back and forth changing style. But it's not bad once you get used to it. A nice read. This was decent. I think I missed a lot by not reading in the original Spanish. I also probably should not have watched the fantastic movie first. If you are a Spanish speaker, I would grab the original.
If not, the movie is sexy and very, very good. Last time I checked it was on Netflix. View all 11 comments. Feb 26, Yani rated it liked it Shelves: universidad. View all 10 comments. El escritor en esa obra vuelve a entregar una provocadora historia de robo en un banco de Buenos Aires.
Una mezcla de crimen negro, comentario, y sus sangrientas consecuencias basadas en lo que fue un verdadero crimen del La historia seria un cuento sencillo. Il romanzo, ambientato tra Buenos Aires e Montevideo, narra una storia realmente accaduta. Ricardo Piglia imbastisce il suo racconto, fondandolo su "un caso secondario e ormai dimenticato di cronaca nera", che aveva assunto per lui "a mano a mano che svolgevo le ricerche, i contorni e il pathos di una leggenda.
Quattro malviventi squilibrati due dei quali li chiamavano i gemelli, perch Il romanzo, ambientato tra Buenos Aires e Montevideo, narra una storia realmente accaduta. Lo scontro con i poliziotti dura a lungo e i quattro, sotto l'effetto delle droghe, riescono a resistere. E poi il colpo di scena. Il Nene se ne stava sulla porta, lo fissava e non diceva niente. Era un destino a cui non poteva sfuggire e verso il quale veniva inesorabilmente condotto come Anselmo nel vagone di seconda classe del Ferrocarril del Sur.
Jul 06, George K. A good post-modern crime, based on a true story, novel, with much adrenaline, bloody scenes and interesting characters. I think James Ellroy or Quentin Tarantino will like this novel. View all 6 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. Gli interessa solo la letteratura e questo mi permette di ironizzare anche su me stesso. Sono un esercito in miniatura. View 2 comments. Shelves: novels.
What kind of society considers burning money more abominable than the fact that the money was gain and kept by leaving a trail of blood? This is at the core of this novel by Piglia which is a noir that for moments could look like something from Tarantino but which has a structural complexity Mr.
Tarantino can only dream of. Piglia is an immensely skilled author whose narrative skills are simply above all but a handful of contemporary writers and yet, this novel feels like so close and so far at t What kind of society considers burning money more abominable than the fact that the money was gain and kept by leaving a trail of blood? Piglia is an immensely skilled author whose narrative skills are simply above all but a handful of contemporary writers and yet, this novel feels like so close and so far at the same time from what it could had been.
Here we have the story of a bank robbery which ends up in a brutal siege when the perpetrators are cornered. It goes as Piglia's merit to get the narrative to a point when the question is not what will happen but when. This is indeed the story of such siege, but more importantly, a portrait of an era as lived by some of its most brutal but also marginal members.
This has a little drawback: the language is quite peculiar to its time and place and it takes some time to get used to it, at least for someone who is not from Argentina. By the half of the book that should stop being a problem for most readers and certainly won't matter for a reread, I am rather curious how much of this slang survived in the English translation.
Flashbacks, the trademark cinematographical narrative technique, are used here frequently with a mixed effect. One gets to know more of the story, and suddenly the blood thirsty beasts carrying the money get an additional dimension to their lives, and yet, it feels like we have two novels which run at different times.
At times it actually feels like we have two different novels in a troubled cohabitation here. And that leads us to its humble 3 stars rating. Which results from the novel almost always releasing its narrative tension almost as soon as it is created.
To what extent this happens or how much it detracts from the book is arguable but I feel that I can only rank this novel in the light of the novel it could had been if some nuts and bolts had been tightened in a slightly different way. View 1 comment. Lo scrittore con questa opera consegna ai lettori una storia provocante, realizzata da una rapina in una banca di Buenos Aires: una miscela di crimine nero, commenti, e le sue sanguinose conseguenze.
Gran libro de Piglia. Esos pasajes son chocantes pero a la vez fascinantes. View all 3 comments. Despite the Argentinean setting, this is a book that reminded me of one of those wonderful, gritty New Hollywood movies from the early '70s. You can practically see the lines being cut up on the pebbled-vinyl dash of the Cadillac Fleetwood, the mustaches and sideburns, the guns concealed in beige blazers It's not the sort of thing I often Despite the Argentinean setting, this is a book that reminded me of one of those wonderful, gritty New Hollywood movies from the early '70s.
It's not the sort of thing I often read, given my general allergy to crime fiction, but it's gripping at times, and the absurdity of the whole damn thing carried it along. El retrato de los personajes, con sus sombras, sus justificaciones, su humanidad Cierto tremendismo en las historias personales. Que la historia no llega a atrapar, no conmueve, me da igual lo que le pase a todo el mundo Confused and uneven, but with moments of power.
For most of its length this partly-true story doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, then around the three-quarter mark it kicks into gear. Not quite a novel, but looser with the facts than any true crime title should be, this is according to the afterword an early piece of Piglia's redrafted several years after the fact, which explains its strange mix of immature-seeming idealism and sporadic sophistication. One thing: I hated the Tom Waits ly Confused and uneven, but with moments of power.
One thing: I hated the Tom Waits lyrics attributed to an imaginary band apropros of nothing, an ahistorical intrusion the song is from , the story set in the 60s that only served to undermine my trust in the factual accuracy of the piece. Basado en una historia real, y la historia tan intensa en todo momento. Una novela que definitivamente vale la pena leer. Buena novela, poco que comentar. Esta mezcla no ayuda mucho al tramo final. Entender el crimen como un acto de desobediencia cometido por aquellxs a quienes la ley doblega.
Ese es el hado de los personajes que Ricardo Piglia crea en Plata quemada , ese su sino inmarcesible. La odisea de un grupo de marginales que por no tener hogar buscan regresar a la muerte, la muerte heroica de caer con la ametralladora en las manos. El periplo de Mereles, Dorda y Brignone marca la trama de esta novela. Los pocos contra los muchos. Los guerreros legendarios dispuestos a morir, pero a aguantar mientras tanto todo y un talegado extra. Comprendemos la tragedia a ambos lados, comprendemos el absurdo.
El absurdo. Esta es una novela sobre el absurdo. Pero los personajes no lo saben, no todos, al menos. No lo saben los testigos. No lo saben las familias. Crime Drama Romance. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Burnt Money. Photos Top cast Edit. Ricardo Bartis Fontana as Fontana. Dolores Fonzi Vivi as Vivi. Claudio Rissi Relator as Relator.
Roberto Vallejos Parisi as Parisi. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Burnt Money, is set in Argentina in This true story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of Argentinian crime history. Nene, Angel and Cuervo are bank robbers who flee from Argentina across the border to Uruguay after a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody. Angel is hurt and the three must lay low until Angel recovers.
Nene and Angel are known to everyone they know as "the twins" because of their resemblance, but the two are not brothers at all - they are involved in a steamy homosexual relationship. To get back to Argentina, the group must first wait for Fontana, the brains behind the robbery, to arrange for passports. Anxious from hiding, Cuervo decides to break curfew and go party.
After Nene and Angel also decide to take off, Nene meets a prostitute named Giselle and Angel ends up getting in a fight. The group is forced to abandon their refuge and Angel and Nene decide to move in with Giselle. However, the sexual attraction between Nene and Angel burns too strongly and when Nene gets hostile with Giselle and kicks her out, she goes straight to the police to snitch on the group. It's not long before police are surrounding the building and the fate of Nene and Angel appears to be sealed.
Crime Drama Romance Thriller. Did you know Edit. Trivia Dolores Fonzi's debut. Goofs In the robbery scene, when Nene takes the cash box from the dead clerk, the corpse of the clerk is still breathing, as his beer belly is heaving.
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