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A Bended Circuity by Robert S. Stickley
And certainly this book can imprint this sentiment as one of your foremost desires; catapult, after myriads of realizations, of reconsiderations and of finding what is your position on their selfish deluded Way, the ringing need of bringing the end of all this, and seeing, living, breathing something, if not better, fair, true evolution past the cycle of dressed-up enslavement and, as we say here on the south of the South, "atole con el dedo".
RSS opens this tale of made up war —and what human war isn't?— in a confusing and anachronistic South Carolina at the end of the 60's. Language is one of the first hurdles one has to jump in reading this novel, a roadblock that feels constructed by the need to reinstate an old order, the "True Way", one which even the narrator is a hired actor who's in the plot of this frankly ridiculous and comedic story. But, at the end of the day, stories reflect the world in its many registers, and this book picks the necessary ones for one to laugh away the probable tears againt the ludicrous flow of Capitalism —who is probably as much a main character as the United States is.
Traversing through the swampwords and the dictionary marshes, one is able to find Pynchonian named characters who have the most thought provoking of conversations: a man seeking a bomb with an experiment in mind, a physical jokery shadow entity, a renowed cock champion turned mountain, and one of the many embodiments of greed and self entitlement who thinks loves his wife so much that he'd kill for her but gives only superficial kisses to. As the story advances, by these people being the protagonists, everything only seems to be going backwards , like their horses.
Despite all... maybe because I'm not familiarized at all with the geography or the history of the US's Uppers, only their "revolutions". Maybe because I couldn't find a sound gripping point to anchor myself and plunge into the subtext. Maybe just because one cannot hold the book and a dictionary at the same time while travelling to and from their Capitalism-abler work... Despite all the frankly funny passages, the all out excellently written action scenes, I couldn't bring myself to give this a 5 star... but that doesn't mean I don't recommend it, or that is is very far off from the crown.
And in all, even though it is RSS' first published novel, it already has all the qualities for it to be considered a work coming from a very mature artist, and I'm hoping to see more of their work.
4.0
"... I want to experience the end of Capitalism, I want to see the human species progress."
And certainly this book can imprint this sentiment as one of your foremost desires; catapult, after myriads of realizations, of reconsiderations and of finding what is your position on their selfish deluded Way, the ringing need of bringing the end of all this, and seeing, living, breathing something, if not better, fair, true evolution past the cycle of dressed-up enslavement and, as we say here on the south of the South, "atole con el dedo".
RSS opens this tale of made up war —and what human war isn't?— in a confusing and anachronistic South Carolina at the end of the 60's. Language is one of the first hurdles one has to jump in reading this novel, a roadblock that feels constructed by the need to reinstate an old order, the "True Way", one which even the narrator is a hired actor who's in the plot of this frankly ridiculous and comedic story. But, at the end of the day, stories reflect the world in its many registers, and this book picks the necessary ones for one to laugh away the probable tears againt the ludicrous flow of Capitalism —who is probably as much a main character as the United States is.
Traversing through the swampwords and the dictionary marshes, one is able to find Pynchonian named characters who have the most thought provoking of conversations: a man seeking a bomb with an experiment in mind, a physical jokery shadow entity, a renowed cock champion turned mountain, and one of the many embodiments of greed and self entitlement who thinks loves his wife so much that he'd kill for her but gives only superficial kisses to. As the story advances, by these people being the protagonists, everything only seems to be going backwards , like their horses.
Despite all... maybe because I'm not familiarized at all with the geography or the history of the US's Uppers, only their "revolutions". Maybe because I couldn't find a sound gripping point to anchor myself and plunge into the subtext. Maybe just because one cannot hold the book and a dictionary at the same time while travelling to and from their Capitalism-abler work... Despite all the frankly funny passages, the all out excellently written action scenes, I couldn't bring myself to give this a 5 star... but that doesn't mean I don't recommend it, or that is is very far off from the crown.
And in all, even though it is RSS' first published novel, it already has all the qualities for it to be considered a work coming from a very mature artist, and I'm hoping to see more of their work.
Solenoide by Mircea Cărtărescu
5.0
Un «Qué pasaría sí...» lleno de esteroides con la cara pintada de «Ya pasó». Solenoide es una novela que existe por no existir, que plasma otro tiempo que, quizás lo piense ahora el autor, no debió de haber sido. Sus páginas son el camino que llevó a Cărtărescu a revisitar el poema que empezó todo —después de haber recorrido el camino que parte desde el cubo Rubik hasta el Manuscrito de Voynich— con ojos que ya han visto más del mundo.
No diría que es esencial, pero una lectura inicial y una posterior del poema "La Caída", enriquece la experiencia de leer esta gran obra: siendo el poema una tesis de la cual el "otro Cărtărescu" y sus descubrimientos —que son los mismos del autor rodeado de fama y literatura— son su total antítesis; «salvando al niño en vez de la obra de arte».
No diría que es esencial, pero una lectura inicial y una posterior del poema "La Caída", enriquece la experiencia de leer esta gran obra: siendo el poema una tesis de la cual el "otro Cărtărescu" y sus descubrimientos —que son los mismos del autor rodeado de fama y literatura— son su total antítesis; «salvando al niño en vez de la obra de arte».