{"title":"Books by Lluís Maria Todó","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"la-mejor-parte-de-los-hombres-tristan-garcia","title":"La mejor parte de los hombres","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n  In Paris during the 1980s and 1990s, a journalist from \u003cem\u003eLibération\u003c\/em\u003e narrates the extraordinary adventures\n  of Willie, Doumé, and Leibowitz. The first is a young provincial man of splendid beauty who becomes\n  the king of the Parisian gay nightlife. The Corsican Doumé was Willie's lover and founder of the first French homosexual liberation movement.\n  Leibo, the narrator's married lover, is a young philosopher who starts positioned on the divine left\n  and ends his career in a ministry.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Willie contracts AIDS and becomes a media figure on the edge of the grotesque, and a wild and furious enemy of Doumé.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cem\u003eThe Best Part of Men\u003c\/em\u003e is Tristan Garcia's first novel, and it strongly attracted the interest of the press\n  and the public from the moment of its publication. With a direct style and an approach unrelated to the popular autobiographical genres,\n  Garcia — who, due to his age, could not have known the years he depicts — evokes that era with surprising effectiveness and vividness.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"With \u003cem\u003eThe Best Part of Men\u003c\/em\u003e, his first novel, Tristan Garcia establishes himself as the literary revelation of the year.\n    His story of the 1980s and 1990s, between the homosexual scene and the new philosophers, is a magnificent moral tale\n    of universal scope.\" — \u003cem\u003eNelly Kaprièlian\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"Garcia skillfully describes the intellectual recompositions of the past two decades: the last gasp of utopias,\n    the left's conversion to capitalism, the transformations of activism, the significance of fractures within\n    the gay community, embodied by the hatred between Dominique and William. With great courage, he takes hold of recent history\n    and offers, beyond the fate of his characters, a genuine novel of ideas, something very rare in French literature.\"\n    — \u003cem\u003eJean Hurin, Le Magazine littéraire\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"In France, writers rarely venture into the territory of contemporary history. Tristan Garcia is not afraid\n    to make a political reading of the debates sparked by AIDS in the 1990s. He knows how to novelize in an engaging way those\n    years we thought empty, ugly, and useless and, in a modern manner, both funny, cruel, and pathetic, he sketches the portrait of\n    familiar characters who move us almost unintentionally.\" — \u003cem\u003eFrançois Ozon, Les Inrockuptibles\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"A cruel and dark lucidity. A revelation.\" — \u003cem\u003eChristine Rousseau, Le Monde\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"An intense and rough novel like contraband alcohol.\" — \u003cem\u003eClaude Arnaud, Le Point\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    \"The birth of a genuine writer.\" — \u003cem\u003eDominique Fernandez, Le Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/em\u003e.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cstrong\u003eTristan Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e (Toulouse, 1981) is a French writer and philosopher. He became known suddenly\n  with his first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Best Part of Men\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the \u003cstrong\u003eFlore Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e (2008)\n  and established him as one of the most promising voices of his generation. His work — both narrative and essay —\n  explores themes such as identity, politics, mass culture, and the tensions between desire, fame, and media power. In addition to his literary work,\n  he develops an intense intellectual activity in the field of contemporary thought.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55987167101272,"sku":"LIB-LA-ED-304","price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/la-mejor-parte-de-los-hombres-tristan-garcia-2954670.jpg?v=1767396934"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-lluis-maria-todo.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}