A chilling and controversial story that has become an iconic work for its unique style. Ricardo, the narrator and protagonist, discovers that his father is writing a disturbing horror story about infanticide and a tale about human cruelty. Secretly reading the manuscript, Ricardo immerses himself in a dark universe of physical and psychological violence, revealing how adults inflict pain on children. The story holds immense potential to be adapted into other formats, offering a deep look at human nature.
A boy discovers that his father, a writer who had stopped writing for a long time, has started a new novel about infanticide and human cruelty throughout history. As his father writes the book, the boy, unable to resist his curiosity, begins reading fragments, confronting terrors more real than the monsters from his favorite stories.
The boy fears that these atrocities will seep into his own reality, so, desperate to change the narrative of the novel, he tries to get rid of his father’s manuscript, but the story resists disappearing. The father, increasingly consumed by the darkness of his process, continues writing, while the boy tries to alter the content of the book by writing between the lines in hopes of changing the fate of the characters.
Finally, the father understands the impact his work has had on his son. The book transforms, ceasing to be a horror story. The past has reached the present, but the boy and his father find a way to write a new ending where horror turns into hope, and the world’s most terrible story is rewritten.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: El libro de la negación speaks of cruelty, child abuse, infanticide, and how adults forget the helplessness of childhood.
The author, Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, is a Mexican psychologist and writer belonging to the “Generación del Crack” literary movement.
He has received multiple awards, including the first Youth Novel Prize at the International Children’s and Youth Book Fair in the short story category, winner of the Edmundo Valadés Latin American Short Story Competition, the José Rubén Romero National Novel Prize, Ciudad de la Paz Novel Prize, International Ink Novel Prize, finalist for the Dashiell Hammet International Prize, and First Mention at the Casa de las Américas Prize in the children’s and youth literature category.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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