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Sumar relata una marcha, que parece interminable, de vendedores ambulantes que avanzan por la ciudad y la Historia hacia «la moneda» (con minúsculas, jugando con la relación entre el centro de poder, el Palacio de La Moneda, y esa «monedita» que piden algunas voces). En esta exigente novela conviven el lenguaje popular y el lenguaje culto: ambas formas confluyen para dar tensión al texto. Incluso tensión política. Los nombres de algunos de los personajes principales remiten a distintos luchadores y obreros del Chile de principios del siglo xx, y el carácter asambleario del relato nos recuerda algunas prácticas necesarias no tan lejanas en el tiempo. Carentes de esperanzas, los trabajadores del mundo repiten a diario la tragedia de la explotación capitalista. Este usufructo de toda capacidad humana se intensifica cuando el sujeto es su propio explotador; tal es el caso de los vendedores ambulantes, quienes toman la palabra en Sumar para reunirse con otros ciudadanos vejados por un orden estatal que parece divino y comenzar su marcha.
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In this 10th novel from author Diamela Eltit, the protagonist is a young woman from a marginal neighborhood who works as a prostitute in a cyber cafe, her life at the height of tragedy and misfortune. The setting is a section of town surrounded by police special forces. But in a sad yet defiant play on words, the special forces of the title also refer to the will required to resist, to survive on the edge of society under such forms of repression and oppression. Violence and the scars left on bodies both physical and social appear in many of Eltit's novels, carefully constructed with uneasy passages dealing with brutality, fruitless desires, illnesses, and harrassment by the police, whose constant presence makes residents live in fear. Her books are also known for their obscenity that goes beyond sexual meaning, never better said, in the horrible, terrible things that must be avoided or hidden. This sad, dark novel constructs a tale from various voices of the poor and the dispossessed who, despite all odds, try to survive with dignity in the middle of a world full of more and more sophisticated guns and new ways of killing. The intelligence and clarity of the main character gives readers a sliver of hope.
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