MB Agencia Literaria

(The Amber Camera) A man returns to the city of his birth to take charge of an inheritance that hides a shadowy past. And this return becomes the search through the city for footprints these shadows left. This narrative thread forms a mysterious web of questions and shades of grey in which the narrator in his own way also returns, following years of silence, to a world that no longer exists and he saw growing up.  The city frozen in time faces the real city and in this setting, four voices stand out: that of his uncle, Nicolás Bemberg, a famous photographer in the ‘40s and antique collector; his servant Emilia, the voice of the Earth a though it were the nocturnal voice of Molly Bloom: the disturbing notary, Mauro Gálvez, Bemberg’s assassin and unmovable fixture in his office, and another author, already dead, who appears in the novel under the name “The Writer.” The author delves into the mechanisms of the narrative process as a symbol of everyday life. The Amber Camera is a place where all reunions are possible, because death, like life but unlike literature – impedes any kind of reunion.

(Spain, Anaya & Mario Muchnik); (France, Actes Sud - Jacqueline Chambon)