El estrangulador

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El estrangulador
AuthorManuel Vázquez Montalbán
LanguageSpanish
PublisherGrijalbo Mondadori
Publication date
Oct 31, 1994
Media typePrint

El estrangulador (English, The Strangler) is a 1994 novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. The book was published on Oct 31, 1994 through Grijalbo Mondadori and focuses around a psychiatric patient that gives a potentially unreliable narration of his life.[1] The book has received some praise for its content and won the Premio de la Crítica Española award in 1995.[2][3]

Synopsis[edit]

The book follows an unnamed narrator that is currently living in a psychiatric hospital. Through the book the narrator talks about the people he has killed and claims to be responsible for a series of murders in Boston. Vázquez Montalbán wrote the book in such a manner that the reader is left to decide whether or not the narrator has committed as many or any of the murders he claims to have performed.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Aguado, T (2004). "Ni "El estrangulador" ni el hombre total: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y la historia de Boston". Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 8: 23–39. doi:10.1353/hcs.2011.0261. JSTOR 20641699. S2CID 143669848.
  2. ^ Méndez, José (30 November 1994). "Vázquez Montalban: "El estrangulador' no es un caso clínico, es un caso literario"". El Pais. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  3. ^ Díaz Arenas, Angel (1997). Quién Es Quién: En la Obra Narrativa de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Edition Reichenberger. p. 5. ISBN 3930700530.
  4. ^ Colmeiro, Jose (2007). Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Tamesis Books. pp. 5, 9, 109–110, 291. ISBN 978-1855661561.