Volver La Vista Atrás by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
A celebrated Colombian filmmaker confronts his past when a career retrospective coincides with his father’s death, unraveling the extraordinary odyssey of a family shaped by revolution. The narrative retraces a Spanish Republican exile who remakes his life in Bogotá, leads his children into Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution, and later ushers them into Colombia’s guerrilla struggle, binding art to ideology with devastating consequences. Through recollection and documentary fragments, it probes loyalty, fanaticism, and the price of utopia on love and kinship, offering a gripping meditation on memory and the uneasy inheritance of political dreams.
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- Published
- 2020
- Nationality
- Colombian
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
- - Retrospective
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