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8/10 Lecturalia Publication date 2002 | 3.3/5 Goodreads Translator Ezra E. Fitz Publisher Rayo Originally published 2002 Page count 287 OCLC 52154048 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Las películas de mi vida Genres Fiction, Autobiographical novel Similar Alberto Fuguet books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Las peli culas de mi vida alberto fuguet
Las películas de mi vida (translated as The Movies of My Life: A Novel) is a 2002 semi-autobiographical novel by Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet. The novel has received a significant amount of critical attention.
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Plot summary
The novel's protagonist tells the story of his life lived back and forth between Chile and California. He focuses first on his early youth spent in California, using the films that he saw as a way to characterize this time in his life. He rather suddenly has to return to Chile in his early teens, coming home to live under Augusto Pinochet's regime, a major culture shock for him.
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