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Eduardo Galeano: Siri Hustvedt

This is one of the most original works I've read in a long time. In it, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano offers us a journey into the past from a unprecedented view, that of those who would normally have been forgotten by official history. Thus, this book talks about everything from women, blacks, and in general all those who have been exploited, abused, and reversed as people throughout the centuries. A reading that invites us to reflect, to learn a new image of recorded history, with the hardness that contain those tragic stories that make up the fabric of everything that came before us. The irony, open criticism, humor, poetry and storytelling are mixed dry and rough in style Galeano, who demonstrates with this book be without a doubt one of the greats of the current literature. Mirrors

is structured as a collection of short stories that are distributed in a more or less chronological order, but that can be read independently. These stories trace the origin of man, with constant references to the mythologies of different peoples, some better known than others. This part is perhaps the most enjoyable to read, because they are written texts with a great sense of humor, to be enjoyed from start to finish. Galeano enough originality in some of these fragments is delicious. It is very difficult to pick out just a few excerpts from a book which itself is full of small masterpieces. However, I leave you, as always, a few lines so you can judge for yourselves:

"Since the Pope of Rome to the most humble parish priest, no priest who does not dictate sexual conduct lessons. How can they know so much about an activity they are forbidden to practice? (.. .) In 1123, the Lateran Council imposed mandatory celibacy. Since then, the Catholic Church conjures the temptation of the flesh by the vow of chastity, and is the only single company in the religious world. The Church requires its priests dedicated a full time system that protects the peace of their souls, avoiding marital quarrels and screaming baby. "

"Hitler did not invent anything. From For two thousand years, Jews are the murderers of Jesus unforgivable and guilty of every sin (...) Defendants to serve the Devil, these bloody centuries walked the expulsion expulsion and massacre killing (...) The colossal carnage organized by Hitler culminated in a long history. The hunt for Jews has always been a European sport. Now the Palestinians, who never practiced it, pay the bills. "

" Before, Europe spilled over the southern hemisphere soldiers, prisoners and starving peasants. These protagonists of colonial adventures have gone down in history as travel agents of God. It was launched to rescue civilization from barbarism. Now the journey is reversed. Those who make it or trying to get from south to north, are the protagonists of the colonial misadventures that go down in history as messengers of the devil. It launched the assault barbarism of civilization. "

" The Berlin Wall was the news every day. From morning to night we read, saw, heard, the Wall of Shame, the Wall of Shame, the Iron Curtain ... Finally, this wall, which deserved to fall, fell. But other walls sprout, and continue to emerge in the world. Although much larger than that of Berlin, they say little or nothing. Little is said about the wall that the United States are rising in the Mexican border, and little is said about the fences of Ceuta and Melilla. Almost nothing was said about the West Bank Wall, which perpetuates the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and will be fifteen times longer than the Berlin Wall, and nothing, nothing at all, they speak of Moroccan Wall, which perpetuates the theft of the country Saharawi and Moroccan kingdom is sixty times more than the Berlin Wall. Why is there so lofty walls and walls so dumb? "

writer Eduardo Galeano says, not a historian. In addition the book contains no references to support the huge amount of data that appear in it. The same author tells us at first that he has been impossible to include these sources because they would have occupied a lot of pages. This is perhaps the only "defect" that can be attributed to the work we do not know to what extent we are told in the book is true or not. But if we read with a somewhat critical eye, without the need to believe everything that we are given as true, we are without doubt an attempt to make history more than welcome, because at last taken the humble voice and disinherited have been so important in historical and unfortunately are marginalized over and over again by official sources. The unsung heroes, the brave who gave their lives to save others, or who struggled to be free in a time en la que las cadenas atenazaban a la mayoría de la población, son los protagonistas al fin de un libro que, si bien no es cien por cien histórico, les intenta devolver parte de la dignidad que el tiempo y la memoria les arrebataron. Aunque a veces su lectura se hace difícil por la dureza de algunos de los episodios relatados, creo que Espejos es una de esas joyitas que aparecen de vez en cuando en el mundo literario y que merece la pena degustar a pequeños sorbos, saboreándola desde el principio hasta el final. Altamente recomendable.

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Mirrors: Everything I loved

El prestigioso escritor Salman Rushdie ha dicho de esta novela que " fascina, apasiona e inquieta. Hustvedt is a singular artist, a gifted writer of considerable intelligence, profound sensuality and a quality difficult to define for which I can only think one word: wisdom. "Not as enthusiastic as Rushdie himself, Hustvedt's novel is, above all, surprising, and beyond this feature, we could say that the word that best defines it is" troubling. "This does not preclude its sometimes reading progress with some difficulty, because it Hustvedt's prose too dense at times, ups and downs and at a rate which, fortunately is in crescendo as we go along the pages.

The writer is a great creative characters. There are some echoes austerianos in these tormented characters with more specific concerns that we love the fans of Auster. In fact, reading this novel right after the previously outlined, Leviathan, I could not find certain similarities between them. In what concerns us, the narrative voice lies with a male character, Leo Hertzberg, an art teacher who will bring a strong friendship with a budding artist named Bill Wechsler. They live in a way similar stocks. Married with two beautiful girls, Erica and Lucille, the two will become pregnant and give birth almost simultaneously. The relationship between the four seems to increasingly take hold, although the author introduces the beginnings of a third female character, Violet, who have a definite presence from the second part of the novel.

The book is thus divided into three parts. The division between the first two is given by a tragic event unexpectedly hitting the peaceful life of this little circle of New York, and will cause profound changes in the trajectory of each one of them. But the most fascinating of the book, from my point of view, is hidden in a page between the second and third, when something dark and strange begins to stalk the actors, at first diffusely, to absorb the growing reader hasta conferir a la novela ese carácter de "inquietante" que mencioné más arriba.

Me gusta la forma de escribir de Hustvedt, aunque sus descripciones son quizás demasiado prolijas en algunos momentos. En general la primera parte del libro se hace algo lenta y pesada, pero como ya adelanté, el ritmo va acelerándose y los acontecimientos se van precipitando a medida que avanzamos en su lectura. Esto, unido a unos personajes bien construidos y muy interesantes, dotan al libro de algo especial que sin duda acaba acaparando -y de forma casi enfermiza- la atención del lector.

El mundo del arte, con sus excentricidades y sus abusos, pero también con la fuerza expresiva que le caracteriza, como fuente de emotions in the viewer, is the backdrop of the novel. Serve this snippet as shown:

"Whenever an artist dies, his work begins to slowly replace the body, thus becoming his replacement in this corporeal world. This is a process, I suppose, inevitable. In passing from one generation to another, certain useful objects such as chairs or plates, may seem temporarily infused with the spirit of their former owners, but this condition fairly quickly succumbs to their pragmatic functions. Art, for their intrinsic usefulness, is reluctant to be incorporated into everyday life, and when it is minimally powerful, seems to encourage the life of the person that created it. "

A novel that also explores significant aspects of human psychology, such as grief and sense of loss at the death of a loved one, the difficulty of relationships, the impossibility of know all the way to the other, no matter how close they seem to us, or personality disorders that can lead to a path of no return. This book is quite ambitious in its plot, but which achieves a more than successful with expectations. And, although sometimes can be tiring a bit, does not disappoint at all. Siri Hustvedt has insisted time and again that they do not want to be known as the wife of Paul Auster, but on merit. If we stay in this way, no doubt you would succeed, if not already done so.

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Paul Auster: Leviathan

I think at this point Paul Auster is the author who has more reviews in this blog. I must admit that after Trips scriptorium, I was somewhat disappointed (the first time something like this happening to me with Auster), and for a while I have not thought about returning to read. But several people, including some of the regular visitors of this blog, I had heard of Leviathan as one of the best novels of New York. And after reading it, I can only prove them right. Because again I found by Paul Auster maze and magician who captures the reader in a story where reality and fiction are mixed to a point indistinguishable. Leviathan is undoubtedly a great novel.

The start is at the same time, the end of the story. The important thing here is the central plot, characters and their relationships, and how these characters evolve over time. The book tells the life of the writer Benjamin Sachs, seen through the pen of another writer and close friend of Sachs, Peter Aaron, a sort of alter ego of the Auster. Peter is remarried to a woman named Iris, while the second Auster's wife Siri is called (it's also writer like him). These are just some examples of those games that Auster likes to entertain his readers, to constantly play with real and fictional elements in the novel.

The characters, like all Auster's novels, are perhaps the best ever. Are complex, change according to circumstances, live suffer and feel at every turn, questioning his life, and making decisions that sometimes make a 180 degrees in their life paths. Apart from Aaron and Sachs, is a fascinating character of Mary Turner, inspired by the conceptual artist Sophie Call, which is also reflected in other Auster novels. Mary is an attractive woman, dedicated photography y muy inteligente, que tendrá una influencia decisiva en las vidas de los dos protagonistas. El elenco de personajes es muy amplio, y todos están retratados con una extraordinaria viveza, hasta parecer personas reales; esta capacidad es una de las mejores bazas de Auster y uno de los atractivos principales de la novela.

Junto a la riqueza de caracteres, el autor nos habla de la importancia de la amistad, de los giros imprevistos del destino, de las casualidades o pequeños acontecimientos que generan una sucesión de hechos imprevisibles, es decir, del hecho de que nuestras vidas están tejidas de sucesos más o menos nimios que van marcando de forma inevitable nuestra trayectoria vital. Vamos tomando decisiones y descartando caminos, but almost always the luck or misfortune, which leads us to a crossroads or different. Faced with this reality, our values, our beliefs, what they believe, are our best hope of salvation. Auster's characters have a strong personality, and this is reflected in their decisions. They are survivors, and try to seek, within its capabilities, the road to self-realization, ie the path to happiness. However, many times the fatal intervention of fate can truncate this path and throw in unpredictable paths. Like life itself. I enjoyed reading

Leviathan. Is one of those books that catch and hard to drop. Is Paul Auster pure, and without doubt one of the most important books of his career. Essential for austerianos convinced, and a good way to get started for those still not known. Another great reading this summer.

More reviews of works by Paul Auster:
- Travels in the scriptorium
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BETTY SMITH: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I am fascinated by books set in New York. Perhaps because of this one my fetish is author Paul Auster, whose works have as a backdrop this attractive city. That is one reason that led me to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , apart from the good reviews I had found on him. In this book, the author outlines the life of immigrants in the streets of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century, when that area was very far from the chic and trendy neighborhood that has become today, and was instead place of residence of the masses of newcomers to a world waiting hiciesen your dreams reality.

The protagonist of the book is Frances Nolan, a girl growing up in a difficult environment but expressed strength to survive outside of the ordinary. Since childhood, when many were predicting an early death because his frail and sickly, Francie proves to be a person full of life and concerns. Passionate about books, endowed with a startling imagination, what appears to turn into a vocation as a writer, and ardent lover of the school, Francie will educate struggling with a mother, Katie, who works tirelessly to get his family out, a brother he loves, Neeley, and father, Johnny, very charming but too fond of drink and without a steady job. In this family are the real forces women to endure the hardships of daily life, are the pillars of its survival, and this is demonstrated again and again throughout the history of Nolan.

Francie is as strong as a tree. For the author, the child (which might be an alter ego of her own childhood, as has been said of the book that contains a marked autobiographical) can be compared to those trees that grow in the most inhospitable proud to stand up to the heaven

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Some call it the Tree of Heaven. Caiga where its seed falls, it emerges a tree struggling to reach the sky. It grows in sun-delimited tables abandoned mounds of garbage. It is the only tree that grows in the concrete. ... survive grows lush no sun, no water, even without land, apparently. We could say that is beautiful, if it were not so many of the same species. "

alongside France and Katie, are the real women characters of the novel. Endearing is the character of Aunt Sissy, a little woman conventional and battered by life, having given birth to several children who died shortly after birth. The relationship between Francie and her aunt is very special, and Sissy appears as a person full of tenderness, love and life men, and for that very much criticized in its environment, including his own family.

Betty Smith's novel, published in 1943, quickly became a best-seller. Miles de personas se vieron identificadas en los personajes de la historia. Los inmigrantes, los pobres, eran los verdaderos protagonistas. Y, junto a ellos, se ensalzaba el valor del esfuerzo y la educación como instrumentos de cambio que podían marcar el futuro de las personas. Por otro lado, la autora critica los convencionalismos sociales y la cerrazón de una sociedad que, afortunadamente, estaba empezando a cambiar gracias, entre otras cosas, a la extensión de la educación gratuita, que alcanzará a casi todas las clases sociales. Es pues un fiel retrato de la vida en la Nueva York más desfavorecida de principios del siglo pasado. De ahí su rotundo éxito nada más ser publicada.

Creo que after these words, it is clear that I recommend everyone read this book. Although his prose is not brilliant, its intent and its argument, and especially the strength of their characters, make a work more interesting. A great read for those sweltering summer afternoons that have already begun. And if they are recommended by none other than Paul Auster, who can resist?