Road Story(Spanish)

Simon feels like his life is in parenthesis he got divorced, he embezzled from the company he worked for, he said he d come back but didn t. Now, he tours the southern states of the US in a rental car. On the road he meets Adriana, a woman from Bolivia who shares the feelings of loss and inanity that have taken a hold of him. Road Story, part of a larger volume of short stories, is the critically acclaimed story of a Chilean trying to find himself in the middle of the barren landscapes of the border between the US and Mexico. Description in Spanish: Simon siente que todo lo que le ocurre es un parentesis: se divorcio y estafo a la empresa donde trabajaba, quedo en volver y no volvio. Ahora se dedica a recorrer el sur de EE.UU. en un auto alquilado. En el camino descubre a Adriana, una boliviana que compartira la sensacion de perdida y vacuidad que lo invade. Road Story forma parte de Cortos, el volumen de cuentos que Alberto Fuguet publico en 2004. Recibido con excepcional entusiasmo de critica, este relato aborda el viaje de un chileno que intenta encontrarse a si­ mismo en medio de los despoblados parajes de EE.UU. y la frontera con Mexico.