Mil de Fiebre / A Thousand Fever

En Mil de fiebre hay personas que necesitan desesperadamente creerse las historias que se cuentan a s mismas. Como Werner G mez, un blogger de Salto, ermita o, graf mano paran ico e incendiario, quien se dispone a trabajar en el proyecto m s ambicioso y arriesgado de su vida: la Gran Novela Salte a. Pero los reclamos de su madre y un descubrimiento fascinante y perturbador se interponen en el camino. O como Luis Bruno, periodista deportivo con trastornos de conducta, que tal vez est atravesando su peor momento: su esposa lo abandon y lo acaban de echar del trabajo. La oportunidad de cambiar la pisada asoma con un viaje a Salto, ciudad donde naci , para trabajar en un peri dico local. Hay un enigm tico escritor de culto, tan prol fico y evasivo que incluso se duda de su existencia, a pesar de que toda una comunidad estudia su obra al detalle y le expresa p blicamente una veneraci n infinita. Hay m sica, poes a y locura, una enfermiza obsesi n por la salud y los alicamentos, una cadena de cl nicas psiqui tricas muy popular entre la clase media, y un club secreto que organiza org as escatol gicas. Y existe un impulso sublime y sutil, misterioso y trascendental, que cuando se presenta es capaz de alterar la sangre y magnificar los sentidos; Werner lo llama "el vapor". Una novela urgente, introspectiva y cat rtica, que interpela al lector mientras navega en un v rtigo de literatura irreverente. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In A Thousand Fever there are people who desperately need to believe the stories they tell themselves.



Like Werner G mez, a blogger from Salto, hermit, paranoid graphologist and incendiary, who is preparing to work on the most ambitious and risky project of his life: the Great Salte a Novel. But his mother's complaints and a fascinating and disturbing discovery stand in the way. Or like Luis Bruno, a sports journalist with behavior disorders, who may be going through the worst time in his life: his wife abandoned him and he was just fired from his job. The opportunity to change the path he's on comes with a trip to Salto, the city where he was born, to work for a local newspaper. There is an enigmatic cult writer, so prolific and elusive that even his existence is doubted, despite the fact that an entire community studies his work in detail and publicly expresses infinite veneration. There is music, poetry and madness, a sick obsession with health and drugs, a chain of psychiatric clinics very popular with the middle class, and a secret club that organizes eschatological orgies. And there is a sublime and subtle impulse, mysterious and transcendental, that when it occurs is capable of altering blood and magnifying the senses; Werner calls it the steam. An urgent, introspective and cathartic novel, which challenges the reader while navigating a vertigo of irreverent literature.