Laidi Fernandez de Juan, January 25, 2011
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still pending other books of yours, start by Under the banner rose (Letras Cubanas, 2009), so generously gifted to who participated in the meeting held Narrative in La Palma, Pinar del Rio, just a few days. I refuse to say "narratology" as proposed by the organizer, and leave for later the comment of the figure to whom was dedicated the event, Mandy Abreu.
The six stories in the book, armed with cunning and effectiveness, approaches agree that you manage to that geographical area it is also moral: Havana deep, sordid, hurt by the passing years and the dismantling of many architectures, without the iterative approach the subject. The city acquires
character reference character to be constant, but above all due to ductile mode in which you enter in the tales. Only in the streets of Centro Habana can come to life the adventures narrated by you, only there are no characters, but Circus items deemed as credible members of a particular population within the metropolis, and can not be another stage where they were born and evolve the unfortunate characters in your stories.
spiritual misery material recreada en las casi cien páginas de Bajo la bandera rosa , sin embargo, no es reflejada con misericordia ni con lástima. Ni siquiera de forma vergonzosa, sino todo lo contrario: Una especie de aceptación del destino y hasta de alegre integración al paisaje se respira en tus cuentos, de manera que se establece la paradoja de un disfrute visceral a pesar de la falta de fortuna. Los personajes son todos, sin excepción, buscadores incansables de mejoras, enamorados perpetuos, cultivadores de la amistad a ultranza, seres que no se dejan ahogar sin antes exigir su derecho al pataleo. Son fuertes contrincantes que hasta el último aliento lanzan sablazos, aunque sean considerados inútiles palos de ciego dada la grisura their horizons.
an enthusiastic addition to survival, physical movement is another constant in these narratives: the traffic on the streets keeps quiet, many actions occur during the transfer of characters from the crowded avenues and infected the city center. So, Belarmino Acosta (of "In Belascoaín Ditch") and Mandi (from "Mandi for his friends") move in bicycle road arteries leading us to them, forcing us to perceive the smells, the sounds that emerge from the area , and watched through his eyes the goings-on, the barter, the illicit nature of much business from sunrise unfolds, and the third story is Yeslandi conducted twice Dragon Station in a police patrol.
forming a sinusoid, several characters come and go in the pages, I admire your storytelling skills to bring them back when we thought being left behind. It is, without doubt, another feature of mobility.
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still pending other books of yours, start by Under the banner rose (Letras Cubanas, 2009), so generously gifted to who participated in the meeting held Narrative in La Palma, Pinar del Rio, just a few days. I refuse to say "narratology" as proposed by the organizer, and leave for later the comment of the figure to whom was dedicated the event, Mandy Abreu.
The six stories in the book, armed with cunning and effectiveness, approaches agree that you manage to that geographical area it is also moral: Havana deep, sordid, hurt by the passing years and the dismantling of many architectures, without the iterative approach the subject. The city acquires
character reference character to be constant, but above all due to ductile mode in which you enter in the tales. Only in the streets of Centro Habana can come to life the adventures narrated by you, only there are no characters, but Circus items deemed as credible members of a particular population within the metropolis, and can not be another stage where they were born and evolve the unfortunate characters in your stories.
spiritual misery material recreada en las casi cien páginas de Bajo la bandera rosa , sin embargo, no es reflejada con misericordia ni con lástima. Ni siquiera de forma vergonzosa, sino todo lo contrario: Una especie de aceptación del destino y hasta de alegre integración al paisaje se respira en tus cuentos, de manera que se establece la paradoja de un disfrute visceral a pesar de la falta de fortuna. Los personajes son todos, sin excepción, buscadores incansables de mejoras, enamorados perpetuos, cultivadores de la amistad a ultranza, seres que no se dejan ahogar sin antes exigir su derecho al pataleo. Son fuertes contrincantes que hasta el último aliento lanzan sablazos, aunque sean considerados inútiles palos de ciego dada la grisura their horizons.
an enthusiastic addition to survival, physical movement is another constant in these narratives: the traffic on the streets keeps quiet, many actions occur during the transfer of characters from the crowded avenues and infected the city center. So, Belarmino Acosta (of "In Belascoaín Ditch") and Mandi (from "Mandi for his friends") move in bicycle road arteries leading us to them, forcing us to perceive the smells, the sounds that emerge from the area , and watched through his eyes the goings-on, the barter, the illicit nature of much business from sunrise unfolds, and the third story is Yeslandi conducted twice Dragon Station in a police patrol.
forming a sinusoid, several characters come and go in the pages, I admire your storytelling skills to bring them back when we thought being left behind. It is, without doubt, another feature of mobility.
"The club of anonymous shitheads", the second story of the book, introduces characters, themes and conflicts that remain then as fundamental axes. Cartaya, perhaps the most endearing of all archetypes emerges and dies in this story, but later comes to him in passing, as if it were not important (in "Under the banner rose"), the Stereo Security Police ("a sort of Mario Conde, accomplice, understanding?), also emerged in the story that appears in second place, it becomes linker axis. Is the constant figure who appears whenever you discover any unlawful, an act that happens to the natural frequency to be expected in marginal environments of narratives.
's what I meant when he spoke of astuteness and effectiveness: A how order is maintained throughout the book, although at first glance seem whimsical concatenation of various events. The officer to whom reference is made and three more stories (in "Composition with introduction, middle and end" in "A cow least one more cow" and "Under the banner rose"), several Sometimes there are stories starring animals or natural child or, in more than one occasion a tourist (Italian always) loses his wallet with banknotes, and causes nothing hilarious situations, and the environment marginal, sexist, racist, populated by criminals, women prostitutes, neglected and victims who cheat and cheat as they can be maintained in all narratives.
Unlike authors like Jorge Angel Perez, who recreates sharply similar environments in the excellent book in Havana are not as elegant , you will devote themselves with greater zeal to humor. It would seem difficult to describe such environments with grace, with sense of choteo, in order to Cuban humor, but I must say you get, and you reach very high cheap humor.
Classification of divers, for example, is delicious (as well as the tragedy behind these street), the tribulations of Ustimenko become such an ordeal of comedy that should be made into a film, the picture of the pioneers to greet the star of the Outcome of the film seems out Bienvenido Mister Marshall, and could include many other times.
There are definitely moving pictures in your book, scenes that can become an excellent audiovisual, where would a play very much of our time. I'll comment hopeful and in the same tense you use to start and finish "Under the banner rose." Hopefully
's what I meant when he spoke of astuteness and effectiveness: A how order is maintained throughout the book, although at first glance seem whimsical concatenation of various events. The officer to whom reference is made and three more stories (in "Composition with introduction, middle and end" in "A cow least one more cow" and "Under the banner rose"), several Sometimes there are stories starring animals or natural child or, in more than one occasion a tourist (Italian always) loses his wallet with banknotes, and causes nothing hilarious situations, and the environment marginal, sexist, racist, populated by criminals, women prostitutes, neglected and victims who cheat and cheat as they can be maintained in all narratives.
Unlike authors like Jorge Angel Perez, who recreates sharply similar environments in the excellent book in Havana are not as elegant , you will devote themselves with greater zeal to humor. It would seem difficult to describe such environments with grace, with sense of choteo, in order to Cuban humor, but I must say you get, and you reach very high cheap humor.
Classification of divers, for example, is delicious (as well as the tragedy behind these street), the tribulations of Ustimenko become such an ordeal of comedy that should be made into a film, the picture of the pioneers to greet the star of the Outcome of the film seems out Bienvenido Mister Marshall, and could include many other times.
There are definitely moving pictures in your book, scenes that can become an excellent audiovisual, where would a play very much of our time. I'll comment hopeful and in the same tense you use to start and finish "Under the banner rose." Hopefully
someone much more practical than I even think such an idea. Meanwhile, receiving a grateful laugh from a reader who continue to seek, look no further, new material coming out of your hand in a good storyteller.
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