Title:
City Next to " Place" and "Paris " make up the Trilogy Involuntary
Author: Mario Levrero
Year: 1970
Pages: 160 pages
Editorial: DeBolsillo, Mondadori
Binding: Softcover
The play begins without denying the obvious shadow of Kakfa, with a quote from this author:
"I see a city far away," is to which you refer?
"Possibly, but I do not understand how you can spot a city there, because I only see something from me suggests, and nothing more than a few vague outlines in the fog.
Kafka's influence is most evident. The protagonist of this work do not even know the original novels in Prague identifies the actor of his adventures. At most, and with dropper, we know that art is a painter, who smokes and lives of rent.
Published in Montevideo, 1970, by Tierra Nueva in his collection Different literature, it all starts when our hero arrives at a house he has rented. Takes a long time uninhabited. Have to work a great time. Since there is no light or heat, decides to leave in search of kerosene to a nearby warehouse, whose whereabouts he recalls. In this manner will be lost immediately.
Fortunately, or unfortunately (who knows?), Will collect a truck when it is unable to return home for rent. Travel along the driver will prompt a woman brushing her leg with it. From here everything will entangling through absurd actions (remember finding a pair of shoes), back and forth aimlessly and unanswered questions)
nothing Without gutting the minimum plot of the play, saying that there are two names which distinguish the two characters, to know: Ana , who is the woman who is near the beginning to get on the truck) and Giménez, the type of gas station do not want the player to leave your side.
Read a second time let me taste the same as the first. Everything remains unanswered and this will anger those who want all this chewing on a novel. The open and unresolved questions are such that the work round your head long after termination of their reading. Moreover, it is ironic to call this novel "The City" (I prefer it to the reader who discovers the reason for what I am saying).
The final (say no more) I have always felt proud. Where is that ... ? Who are those ...? Where do you go ...?
must for anyone seeking new authors and he no media or teachers. Do not be disappointed.