I would like to begin by recalling what Morrison’s disciple said about the first solo novel of an AG Porta, whose writing he claimed was “as clear as a Hockney painting” (126). The cruelty and murder of the rat king, represented by the sewer choir led by a failed author, is perhaps less clear, but just as or more prophetic. This student of Morrison, none other than Roberto Bolaño, and sometimes deceived in his critical writings, quotes him today, again, quoting him, “about life, about the flow of life, about appearance, about deception, and about happiness” (126) And finally, and now, at the center of my talk. has always been equally addictive, but the discovery has only moved from the specialized circle to the general public in recent years.
Acantilado gave us the best Christmas story we’ll read this year, a month in advance. A meta-story is a fairy tale in which reality and fiction concoct a plot that is as delusional as it is satirical. A narrative in which the CEO of a large corporation may find himself turned into a disgraced rat, thanks to the magic of a failed writer who draws on the broad tradition of the Christmas story to prepare the great work—one and three—this, the other’s notes. year, it will remain in the pipeline. It is not written, but it has already been written for our pleasure. And what a pleasure.
The title, which I won’t waste on repeating, says it all. Or at least it gives some hints, if not everything—enough. This first “king of the mice” shows that we’re dealing with a Christmas tale of sorts, where Porta will get more than just the name of Scrooge’s children. The excess of its length (inversely proportional to that of the novel) points to the mastery and irony manifested in its pages. It is a style that its readers are already accustomed to and from which the addiction I mentioned above stems from. In the end, it writes unsuccessfully. He will of course be the one to lead the subject from the very beginning with a sense of humor that challenges the reader: the moment he thinks to ask CEO Scrooge’s assistant manager if North is North, he comes back many times. it’s the right place to look for: what kind of activities – what he calls experiences – he can perform and things like that.
Of course, according to most readers, and very legitimately, we don’t like to be fooled. Porta does not fool us; He calls us stupid loudly and gracefully, so we can’t get mad. It puts us in front of a slightly distorted mirror, but still reveals a mirror hardness inspired by reality and humor. However, at the second level, it is the literary ideas and the process of writing them.
The unsuccessful writer hero has many ideas, but he never finishes carrying any of them. It is the narrator who will complete the rest in a notebook made up of sketchy notes in the novel and present it to us in an innovative plot according to his own format. And from an originality that has always been doubted and many times questioned (at least as much as there are overt literary references; and at least as many as the phrase “paparruchas” is used), it’s obviously an homage to the quintessential Christmas story).
The unwritten story goes through different phases, and so we see the aforementioned CEO, if it weren’t for his wife, becoming part of a trilogy from Christmas to Twelfth Night in a sort of literary version of The Apartment. -The author, but which one?- At times he kindly reminds him that the lack of originality is obvious and that CEO Scrooge has been seen on TV more than once. Here we go back to the title. What was an ordinary Christmas story thus turns into an unusual Christmas fairy tale. In this way, the game and fun of building the novel is transferred to the never before more exciting reading process.
In a way, this is also the first solo novel after completing a kind of heptalogy in which its characters appear and disappear, building their own unique narrative universes. The first novel, Ignoring, My name is Vila-Matas, is like everyone else, I would not say this is a traditional novel, but I bring it up because it still reflects the necessity of originality and genius that they pursued. Fate to our author. Well crafted, outstanding at its best, original (why not) and clever. Here the author, the other, who no longer inhabits its pages, cannot be read as failure, for the result of his friendship is spotless.
Source: Informacion
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