El Hombre Amansado

Castellanos Moyavuelve alpersonaje de Moronga, suanterior novela, pararetratar la paranoia yeldesarraigo de unemigrado por laviolencia.

Erasmo Aragn sufre un abrupto cambio de vida al quedarse sin trabajo tras ser falsamente acusado de abuso sexual. La tensin que este incidente genera lo lleva a enterrar sus recuerdos. Sometido por los ansiolticos, deja atrs la persona desinhibida que fue y se transforma en un ser torturado por la paranoia y en permanente estado de alerta. Durante el redescubrimiento de s mismo conocer a Joselin, enfermera que trabaja en la clnica psiquitrica que sigue su tratamiento y a quien se aferrar como a un clavo ardiendo. Para cortar cualquier conexin con su pasado, Erasmo inicia junto a ella, en Suecia, una nueva vida que se ver sepultada por un alud de insatisfaccin y dependencia.

En esta breve pero intensa novela, Horacio Castellanos Moya aborda uno de los temas centrales de su obra: el desarraigo que supone para las personas de varias regiones de Latinoamrica los conflictos all existentes: personas a quienes la vida les ha sido negada; condenadas, de forma irremediable, a vagar por el mundo. Erasmo Aragn da voz a aquellos que habitan entre dos aguas, con un pie en su patria y el otro en pases que les resultan hostiles: mientras tratan de mantener cierto equilibrio, la certeza de un hogar se les escapa de las manos.

Castellanos Moya turns to the character in Moronga, his previous novel, to portray the paranoia and the rootlessness of a man forced to migrate due to violence.

Erasmo Aragn suffers an abrupt shift in his life when he loses his job after being falsely accused of sexual abuse. The strain triggered by this incident drives him to bury his memories. Subdued by his anti-anxiety medication, he leaves behind the disinhibited man he once was and transforms into a paranoid tortured being in a constant state of alertness. During his rediscovery, he will meet Joselin, a nurse working at the psychiatric clinic where he receives treatment, and to whom he clings on to like a red-hot nail. In order to sever all connections to his past, Erasmo starts a new life in Sweden by her side, buried under an avalanche of discontent and dependence.

In this brief but intense novel, Horacio Castellanos Moya tackles one of the key elements in his work: the rootlessness local conflicts pose to people of several regions of Latin Americapeople who have been denied a life, irreparably condemned to roam the earth. Erasmo Aragn gives a voice to those that dwell between two worlds, with one foot in their homeland and another in countries that turn hostile on them. While they try to find a certain balance, the sureness of a home slips through their fingers.