博客來Es una obra ambiciosa y personal, en donde la azarosa búsqueda del personaje lo lleva a conocerse a sí mismo y, a la vez, la terrible realidad de la ciudad de México.
Cerca del fuego muestra a un José Agustín en posesión de un estilo exacto y ardiente. En estas páginas los lectores asistimos al conocimiento que el autor posee del ser humano y de sus rincones insondables. Es ésta una obra ambiciosa y personal, donde la búsqueda conduce hacia las profundidades del ser y hacia un afuera escalofriante. En palabras del autor, ＂mi mejor libro＂.
Near the Fire depicts Jose Agustin exercising an accurate and ardent style. Within these pages, we readers witness the author’s knowledge of human beings and their inscrutable depths. This is an ambitious and personal work where the quest leads to the innermost being and towards a frightening exterior. In the author’s own words, ＂my best book.＂ Here is a story with no room for compromise, a book born out of the most inhospitable reality, about which Jose Agustin states: ＂On February 14, 1978, the Rocky Mountain News front page read that a former soldier was standing on a corner, waiting for the bus, when he suddenly realized he didn’t know where he came from or where he was headed. The only thing he remembered was that he had left the Miami airport to visit his brother. On the bus, he asked for the date and realized he had forgotten the last six years of his life. He was terrified. He walked into an army hospital and admitted himself. The psychiatrists determined his amnesia was genuine. When I read this article, I knew that was the plot for Near the Fire. A six-year amnesia suited Mexico really well--the country has had amnesia since 1940--and it suited my character also, who would have to face the unknown to get his memories back.＂
