¡Que viva la música!
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| ¡Que viva la música! | |
| Author | Andrés Caicedo |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Language | Spanish |
"¡Que viva la música!" is a novel written by Andrés Caicedo, writer from Cali, Colombia
The novel has been seen as an invitation to a party without end, where the main character comes to see the world as a bottomless pit of debauchery, which she relishes. There's a secret pact with death itself with the ever more frantic dance of María del Carmen Huerta, the blond protagonist of the book.
The novel also offers an affectionate view of the Colombian city of Cali as unique, magic, and different. Our introduction starts in the privileged North, with its Sixth Avenue ("la Sexta"), Parque Versalles, and its magical places, until you get to the ghetto in the South with its Caseta Panamericana (built especially for the 1971 Pan American Games), the Pance River, the neighborhoods beyond upper-class Miraflores, the winged Andes mountain range, and the hideouts of sex and salsa in the final stretches of 15th Street ("la Quince").
It's been said that author Andrés Caicedo committed suicide the same day he held the first edition of the book in his hands, although this is not verifiable, and is part of the mythology that has grown up around this writer. He described the book as a result of an "ephemeral curiosity." but there is a small but dedicated core of readers who believe the book to be one of the greatest novels among Colombian literature of the second half of the 20th century.
