by Hunter S. Thompson · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433969644
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Dive into tropical disillusionment with Hunter S. Thompson's 'The Rum Diary'. In this novel, a young globetrotting journalist, Kemp, seeks refuge in Puerto Rico, finding a job at the San Juan Daily News. Surrounded by disillusioned and ambitious characters, Kemp faces the decay of an island consumed by money and corruption, while battling boredom in a paradise of rum, sex, and sun. This work, a precursor to gonzo journalism, is a biting and hilarious chronicle of disillusionment and the search for meaning in a declining world.
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establish the subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a style in which the writer becomes central to, and participant in the narrative.
