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A review by jayal
Candido's Apocalypse by Nick Joaquín
4.0
Well, ain't that a traumatizing read.
I have nothing else to say other than, I was blown away by every vivid imagery Joaquin wrote. There is nothing more traumatic than having that scene of feasting on a puppy permanently engraved in my mind.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"But they walked in public as if they were clean and happy and beautiful, believing nobody could see into their secret places, what they really were, and he felt the urge again to tell everybody what he saw they had..."
"Another layer had dropped off what clothes people and more than a nakedness of the flesh was naked before him in the living room."
"If you stripped the skin from a person what remained was anonymous machinery." Faceless. Sexless
"... do you know, we never stop being what we were, young. We don't shed that young self, we just put on other skins, one cover after another, but somewhere in us is still that self we were before we fell, before we started covering ourselves. And all the rest of our lives we're trying to go back, we're looking for it, what we lost. Maybe that's why the creed promises a resurrection of the body, for all those who didn't find what they lost."
I have nothing else to say other than, I was blown away by every vivid imagery Joaquin wrote. There is nothing more traumatic than having that scene of feasting on a puppy permanently engraved in my mind.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"But they walked in public as if they were clean and happy and beautiful, believing nobody could see into their secret places, what they really were, and he felt the urge again to tell everybody what he saw they had..."
"Another layer had dropped off what clothes people and more than a nakedness of the flesh was naked before him in the living room."
"If you stripped the skin from a person what remained was anonymous machinery." Faceless. Sexless
"... do you know, we never stop being what we were, young. We don't shed that young self, we just put on other skins, one cover after another, but somewhere in us is still that self we were before we fell, before we started covering ourselves. And all the rest of our lives we're trying to go back, we're looking for it, what we lost. Maybe that's why the creed promises a resurrection of the body, for all those who didn't find what they lost."