Best Seller
La República / The Republic
By Jorge Volpi
Paperback
$19.95
Available on Mar 16, 2027 | 280 Pages
«Yo persigo lo que vendrá después. Un mundo que ya no esté configurado por humanos. Un mundo que no dependa de los fallos de nuestra especie. Igual que tú».
Estados Unidos, fines de 2026. Tras el colapso de la democracia y la condena de Donald Trump, el senador VM Lively llega a la presidencia con un discurso simple: el caos debe terminar. Pero su visión del orden no nace de las urnas, sino de los algoritmos. Junto a su esposa, Igne Kayris, una ingeniera obsesionada con superar los límites de lo humano, y con la ayuda de Nick, una inteligencia artificial capaz de anticipar conductas y modelar la realidad, Lively reescribe las reglas del juego: deportaciones masivas, purga institucional, control biométrico y una nueva religión del poder.
Con una prosa implacable y ecos shakespearianos, La República es una distopía política, inquietantemente cercana, que explora hasta qué punto nuestra ambición tecnológica cuestiona la idea misma de lo humano. En un mundo donde la verdad es maleable y la lealtad, un algoritmo, la pregunta no es quién miente, sino quién decide qué es real.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“I pursue what will come next. A world no longer shaped by humans. A world that does not depend on the failings of our species. Just like you.”
United States, late 2026. Following the collapse of democracy and the conviction of Donald Trump, Senator VM Lively becomes president with a simple message: the chaos must end. His vision of order, however, stems not from the ballot box but from algorithms. Together with his wife, Igne Kayris, an engineer obsessed with pushing the limits of what it means to be human, and with the help of Nick, an artificial intelligence capable of anticipating behavior and modeling reality, Lively rewrites the rules of the game: mass deportations, institutional purges, biometric control, and a new religion of power.
With relentless prose and Shakespearean echoes, The Republic is a political dystopia, unnervingly close to reality, that explores the extent to which our technological ambition challenges the very idea of what it means to be human. In a world where truth is malleable and loyalty is an algorithm, the question is not who lies, but who decides what is real.
Estados Unidos, fines de 2026. Tras el colapso de la democracia y la condena de Donald Trump, el senador VM Lively llega a la presidencia con un discurso simple: el caos debe terminar. Pero su visión del orden no nace de las urnas, sino de los algoritmos. Junto a su esposa, Igne Kayris, una ingeniera obsesionada con superar los límites de lo humano, y con la ayuda de Nick, una inteligencia artificial capaz de anticipar conductas y modelar la realidad, Lively reescribe las reglas del juego: deportaciones masivas, purga institucional, control biométrico y una nueva religión del poder.
Con una prosa implacable y ecos shakespearianos, La República es una distopía política, inquietantemente cercana, que explora hasta qué punto nuestra ambición tecnológica cuestiona la idea misma de lo humano. En un mundo donde la verdad es maleable y la lealtad, un algoritmo, la pregunta no es quién miente, sino quién decide qué es real.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“I pursue what will come next. A world no longer shaped by humans. A world that does not depend on the failings of our species. Just like you.”
United States, late 2026. Following the collapse of democracy and the conviction of Donald Trump, Senator VM Lively becomes president with a simple message: the chaos must end. His vision of order, however, stems not from the ballot box but from algorithms. Together with his wife, Igne Kayris, an engineer obsessed with pushing the limits of what it means to be human, and with the help of Nick, an artificial intelligence capable of anticipating behavior and modeling reality, Lively rewrites the rules of the game: mass deportations, institutional purges, biometric control, and a new religion of power.
With relentless prose and Shakespearean echoes, The Republic is a political dystopia, unnervingly close to reality, that explores the extent to which our technological ambition challenges the very idea of what it means to be human. In a world where truth is malleable and loyalty is an algorithm, the question is not who lies, but who decides what is real.
