Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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1Q84 book 3, Haruki Murakami


After reading books 1 and 2 of this trilogy not expect much from the final delivery of the work. Perhaps it was this total lack of expectations that has made me enjoy both mature Murakami, ironic and profound humanity which is revealed in this book. The first two sinned to me like a generic formalism excess fit the author in a scheme too strict and that spoiled his best talents, resulting in a novel formula that did not quite make the cut and convincing. But for this third book Murakami seems to have broken away from all these scruples formal arguments. The action is limited to the last 50 pages in the 400 first basically nothing happens other than the alternative narrative of the experiences of three people locked in their own circumstances of uprooting and united by a loneliness so fundamental that goes far beyond a simple lack of companionship.
Anyone familiar with the theories of Ernst Jung can apparently identify the philosophical pattern which is based Murakami to create his parallel world and the strange connections between the characters. Those who instead suffer from a profound ignorance in most intellectual areas, such as myself, however we recognize some emotions, aspirations, dreams, hopes and frustrations that are human and universal and require no explanation in footnote page.
This is in addition to a great book and different, whose only downside is that you have read the previous two in order to access it. But I dare say almost worth the effort.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

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Sh * t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern


Very poorly translated into English as The bullshit my father, this book comes from a Twitter page where Justin Halpern was publishing the most memorable phrases he heard that his eccentric father daily . I can not imagine a worse source for a book and started reading it with no expectation (good growth, expectations were, but all bad). Of so that I myself was first surprised to find a book unpretentious, funny and endearing, about a father and son not very conventional. A relationship that has nothing to do with those that appear in Disney films or books on how to educate your children, but that is what Justin Halpern and his father have it, and they work fine. The author does not attempt to beautify and ennoble the reality of his father, which makes it needless. With candor and spontaneity not prohibit him from using his undoubted talent as a writer, Halpern AC jr brief quotations in his book from his father about all sorts of everyday situations with more extensive accounts of stories of their life together. The result is a tribute from son to a father who had to play its role without other instruction manual that love and personal convictions, and has succeeded in being true to himself throughout his life. Find a book feared afterpunk postmodern, and has proved a very personal and human work that does not appear this time.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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The Impatient Alchemist, Lorenzo Silva


in 1995 by chance and I bought a book called curiosity November without violets, the first work of one Lorenzo Silva published by an obscure publishing house called "Editions libertarian." And I loved the book. As were the days without internet, had to spend more than fifteen years before I found out from exile this heresy that a Lorenzo Silva was becoming world famous in our country with a series of novels about a couple of Civil Guards. And yet it took another ten years for that series of novels finally fell into my hands, thanks to the wonderful idea that has had the authority to offer on pack for the electronic book reader for the price of laughter.

The second novel in the series, The Impatient Alchemist, was awarded the Nadal Prize in 2000 and is a delightful book that is read in one sitting, leaving a great taste. The detective plot is less than the height of the entanglements Scandinavian we are used today, but the author knows compensate with characters that, while some archetypal sin (can not get too deep into the psychology of a cast so wide in less than 300 pages), although these are drawn with brushstrokes very accurate and also produce some dialogues which are among the best ever written in our literature. Another important difference is that the current thrillers Lorenzo Silva proves to be an incurable optimist in regard to human nature: for his novel parading a series of wicked and unscrupulous characters, but also appear while a few men and women upright, principled, not necessarily nice but with a conscience and a strong sense of justice. And the best part is that these characters are entirely credible and capable of convincing even for a moment that all is not lost. Not every day has a body to postmodern skepticism.