by Eleanor Catton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415803119
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«El ensayo general» is the novel by Eleanor Catton, published by Siruela in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a group of young aspiring actors at a prestigious New Zealand drama school, where teachers push them to explore their most intimate emotions to build their characters. Their final project is based on a real case of sexual abuse between a music teacher and a student; the boundaries between reality and fiction blur on and off the stage.
Translation by Tamara Gil Somoza. Originally published as «The Rehearsal» (2008). Part of the Nuevos Tiempos collection from Siruela.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, with an interest in coming-of-age stories, the world of theatre, and an intense academic atmosphere.
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
