La muerte de un instalador

What we have here is the chronicle of Sebastin Vaca, and of the fulfilling of Aristoteles Brumell's detailed and precise planning. "Death of an Installer" tolds the story of an artist who, without realizing it, becomes the work of his own sponsor. It's an incisive, scathing tale that discloses the paths of the world of contemporary art. Written by an author that knows how to dissect fiction with realism's tools, this avant-garde work makes mockery of art's motivations and of an entire epoch as well. "Death of an Installer," winning novel of the 1966 Joaquin Mortiz Award for a first novel, represented the rise of one of the most prominent young writers in the Mexico of the end of the millenium, who is now acknowledge as one of the most relevant narrators of our literature. Crnica de la cada de Sebastin Vaca y de la consagracin del minucioso y exacto plan de Aristteles Brumell, La muerte de un instalador narra la historia de un artista que, sin darse cuenta, se convierte en la obra de su mecenas. Un relato incisivo y mordaz que desnuda los derroteros del arte contemporneo y su mundo. Escrita por un autor que supo diseccionar la ficcin con las herramientas del realismo, esta obra vanguardista se burla de las motivaciones del arte y de toda una poca. La muerte de un instalador, novela ganadora del Premio Joaqun Mortiz de primera novela en 1996, signific la aparicin de uno de los escritores jvenes con mayor proyeccin en el Mxico de fin de milenio y que hoy es reconocido como uno de los narradores ms importantes de nuestras letras.