Eisen : Una novela bufa

In this novel, Guzel Yakhina unleashes her powerful imagination to paint a literary portrait of Sergei Eisenstein, the revolutionary filmmaker who reinvented cinema and ultimately found himself cornered by the very political machine he had helped to elevate. Structured in brief scenes that emulate the protagonist's montage technique, the novel transports us from Moscow to Paris, Berlin, and Mexico, where art and desire clash with politics and power. The author's evocative prose vividly recreates the tragedy of the artist under the authoritarian yoke, masterfully capturing the conflict of a creator torn between his artistic ambitions and the obligation to appease the regime. A monumental work, with a powerful narrative drive and profound intellectual depth, it delves into the origins of cinema to reveal the price of creation when freedom is conditional.