Los noventa

A journey through the 90s by the hand of a cult author who captures the essence of the decade that shaped our present. Klosterman, the best cultural chronicler of generation X, plunges us into a decade that, under his inconsequential air, explains and defines the obsessions of the present better than any other. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the Twin Towers, there was a period in history that those who lived through it think they remember well, because it doesn't seem to be that far away, and they think they remember without nostalgia, because not much seems to have happened. For those people - boomers and Gen Xers- the 1990s are little more than the time when Bill Clinton had an affair with a female intern and the internet began to change our lives. But more than thirty years have passed since the beginning of that decade, many of the phenomena that led to it have faded in the memory and we are barely aware of the Copernican turn that meant everything that happened in those years. Neither of the cultural evolution that supposes having gone from the apathy that reigned in the nineties to an era like the current one, in which social networks have turned people into brands. This is a book about the success of Nirvana while Garth Brooks was selling records, about the incomprehensible eighteen months Michael Jordan spent trying to make it in baseball, about Friends, David Foster Wallace and Titanic, and why The Matrix is the most perfect metaphor about television, and not about the internet. This is a book about a decade that made us who we are, even if, until now, we didn't know why.