Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Horse Riding With Brazilian Wax

artificial respiration, Ricardo Piglia


I know it's okay to say a book is a gift that truño. And in the case of artificial respiration also a great injustice to the book, which is very well written and not at all devoid of literary quality. But I have to admit to my shame that I have not heard anything. The novel has passages of great, true, but I do not know a whole what the author intended to have this history, I'm not even quite sure I understood what was the story itself. I suspect it is a kind of key book, written for the intellectual cronies can pick up the fly covert references found on him. To me this reading has made me more of a deep sense of frustration. But as you said the person who gave it to me: not the fault of the book, it's your fault . In other words, mine.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Genitals Cleaning Kit

In the life of Ignacio Morel, Ramon J. Scavenger

Ramon J.
Sender is an author who in my memory is closely related to the readings in the 80 school. With The Nancy thesis as a book fun for everyone but for me, and Carolus Rex as psychedelic historical novel, I felt after excessive desire to repeat reading of his work. Until fate handed me a few months ago exemplary family life in Ignacio Morel , and reading has helped me to reconcile with the figure of the author once so popular and so forgotten today.

This book, as already announced the title, has not really a story but simply to speak a few days in the life of the school teacher of English origin living in the suburbs of Paris and whose biggest problem is vital to be the fear of life itself. A novel and groundbreaking intellectual at the same time be read with extraordinary ease, and even quite enjoyable, but what I find most amazing is that you give the prize Metro is not far from what might be called a novel "commercial" . In fact the issue is dead. Perhaps the many racist remarks, sexist, hurtful to the disabled and politically incorrect in general have to do with it. Or else, Ramon J. Sender is a very old-fashioned writer.

Reading this book has caused a curious nostalgia for the era in which an author could write what he wanted, really wanted, no matter how provocative it was. Reading these books from the late sixties and early seventies, gives an account of what you are enslaved today authors to audience tastes, market research, what should or should not do an author who wants to go through literary and intellectual. Or maybe the wrong impression, and then were enslaved just now but with another kind of slavery that are difficult to detect cuarentaytantos years away.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

My Cat Has An Intestinal Infection

Sender, Fernando González Nohra


Gonzalo, the protagonist of this novel, a writer who does not exercise but is spend hours in front of a notebook in a coffee table, seeing, perhaps, that inspiration waiting on the sidewalk opposite happens, like life. And also with complex amoral (mild) guilt, fear to love you more than old age. When he finally faces the ideal situation that has always required to write (survival assured for a while, no obligation, and to a beautiful woman willing to stand for a while), Gonzalo finds that ... can not think of any way to worth writing. the prologue
-Salem-

Carlos Fernando González Nohra is a very peculiar writer. His personal style, halfway between the vile and poetry, is a mixture that almost nobody is going to work and that usually ends up tiring the reader to two pages. However, the protagonist of this novel, Gonzalo Fernandez, an aspiring writer despite his writer's block and full-time vital failed, will be able to hold the reader's attention on his life and misadventures of the first to the last page. Scavenger novel is a first-person account in which the cynicism, the sordid, the ridiculous, the poetic and the pathetic are mixed in a compelling and unique cocktail that will entertain, excite and disgust the reader equally.

Unfortunately not being distributed in bookstores, but it can get in between the lines (Entrelíneas Free-bar: C / Gonzalo de Córdoba, No. 3-28010 Madrid) and the publishers Quadrivium. If you have a chance to buy this book, do it. For yourselves, to give to friends and relatives who do not fall away quickly, and for all. I recommend it without hesitation.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Naturisme Foto Family

No matter how much bile you are able to swallow

never be sweet

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

4 Months Pregnant Headaches Upset Tummy

The Memory of Water, Teresa Viejo


This book has given me a friend who was interested in knowing my opinion of him. Apparently this is the first novel of a famous journalist, and that made his work was received with skepticism it deserves yet another book in a famosillos. The advantage of living all alone in exile is that I can access the reading of these books without any prejudice about the author or his work, and why my friend request my opinion as objective observer reading and ruthless.

The overall impression was quite positive, the best of the book is good recreation that can do the author of the spa environment of Isabela, with characters, situations and dialogues no obvious anachronisms and very believable in general. In the first part of the book, which tells the history of the spa in the 20's, is given too long a narration, which makes this part of the book is at times a bit bored by repetition. The second part however I liked it more, maybe because being the hardest topic, the author has spread less in the narrative digressions and won with This rhythm and agility. And I liked his approach to the always thorny issue of the Civil War. Although his desire to show both sides of every story makes him fall into contradictions when characterizing the characters, the author manages to give a plausible picture of how many people lived through the conflict.

In short, good historical novel, especially the atmosphere and good characterization of the characters. You can find many technical faults, but it is an interesting story and well told that without the typical happy ending leaves a good taste in your mouth when you finish reading. And that is a lot. A pleasant reading available to everyone, I recommend it all readers who have no prejudices about the authorship of the books they read.