El temperamento melancolico / The Melancholic Temperament

«El arte es el único juez ante el que puedo enfrentarme con lamínima esperanza de ganar o de que, al menos, se retiren los
cargos contra mí»

Cuando Carl Gustav Gruber descubre que tienecáncer y que pronto morirá, decide filmar la queserá su última película. El director alemán, afincadoen México, elige a nueve actores inexpertos con elobjetivo de explotar sus características psicológicas.
En este microcosmos que retoma el Juicio Finalcomo tema central del filme, y del libro de Volpi,los protagonistas conocerán hasta qué extremosson capaces de llegar.
El temperamento melancólico es una desenfrenadanovela en la que Jorge Volpi ilustra las terriblesconsecuencias de fundir vida y arte, así como la inevitablemelancolía que conlleva este peligroso acto.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

“Art is the only judge that I can face with the faintest hope that I can win, or at least, that they will drop the charges against me.”

When Carl Gustav Gruber discovers that he has cancer and will die soon, he decides to film what will be his last movie. The German director, settled in Mexico, chooses nine amateur actors with the objective of exploiting their psychological characteristics.

In this microcosm that has the Last Judgment as the central theme of the film, and of Volpi’s book, the protagonists will find out what extremes they are capable of reaching.

The Melancholic Temperament is an unstoppable novel in which Jorge Volpi illustrates the terrible consequences of fusing art and life, as well as the inevitable melancholy that this dangerous act entails.