Charly Martinez Toledo. Arteidea Editores, Lima 2009, 37 pp.
"Tines and Other Stories" is an excellent, though brief, delivery of four stories of a Storyteller - in capital letters - Which can be called as well. And is that these stories reveal the brush strokes of a hand owns a personal touch pen, not only for the unique way that shows the variety of characters in the stories, but different narrative techniques used in the chain of events of different frames, the beginning and end, and especially in the striking originality hackneyed treatment of literary themes: the macabre fantasy, heartbreak, social marginality, madness.
In the first story tines highlights the skill of presenting the story of how original in both planes, the same history, and speech. So, the girl who takes up the curse - and power - to kill whoever the spikes that grow in the hand, reminds us, the negative version, the king of Phrygia - in Ovid's Metamorphosis - I had the power to turn into gold everything he touched. For its part, the subject of witchcraft is the backdrop that arouses curiosity and maintains the suspense throughout the story because if it is started within a story 'black', inclined to the detective genre The reader's attention is driving between small jumps in time with descriptions picturesque, seemingly far-fetched or just data daily, annotations and comments in the precise extent that such stories require, where certain details of the universe of the story (such as the school is catching fanaticism by the blade, or neighbors look at a man dying on the front door without getting involved in 'witchcraft,') we have, thanks to the good use of language, as phenomena of a possible world.
destroyed lives is the perfect title for the second installment, as it is to watch two lives in ruins, the woman turned into a dancer 'cabaret' escape from a past failed relationship suffered a couple, and the man, who was his lover, now heading psychologically ruined it. The trivial issue is raised with the clinical presentation ironic that means understanding the destruction or release of a state of mind as the lens through which is the focus. It is not known if the omniscient narrator for women is lost or saved, or if the man has lost forever or woman has won for his pleasure always drip. Both are still watching, occasionally exchanging a few sentences uncoordinated. And all in a plane story without any dialogue in between, only single sentences that paint a picture of heartbreak, escape and dependence at a time. The ending gives the impression of a circular state and no way out of things, and there is the destruction of those lives, and fates of change, fearful of renewal.
Tomorrow temper us for favola acute presents the life of a humble citizen in a society that provides opportunities for development in any aspect of your life and that one occasion - the crowning point of the story, actually - lost the ability to work in a Chinese restaurant for falling asleep and be late for the first time. The central figure of this story is a tableau vivant tragedy that exceeds marginal beings or Congrains Ribeyro. The thoroughness of the details - and the tenderness of the narrator - allow the reader indiscreetly poke his head out the window of a being that lives in a precarious and has not lost his humanity of feeling and desire. Despite the poverty in which it draws its life, is antagonistically rich palette of colors that are beyond their feelings of pride, hope, dignity, happiness or anger. What is original in presenting the profile of this character is that it opens the question whether the success or failure in life often has to do with just one second of adverse fate, or if you actually negative begins when the evil black system is a fatal coincidence of men born and living in it.
I killed Archimedes is the best story on the topic of crazy in Peruvian literature in recent years. The presentation crescendo in the madness of the character is great, but tap issues and used (a bowel movement observation and suppression of an insect, pills, insomnia and end in the hospital). It helps to use the monologue for us madness from the perspective of the patient, which is enriched by the exposure of some phrases outputs of your mouth or thought in your mind. Schizophrenia is painting the character that way by itself and not by any other comment of one omniscient narrator. This madness reminiscent of the classic Don Quixote, by being connected with the little sleep and much reading - at least, it seems, the patient has read the history of the Greeks and Romans - but, mark distance presented by Cervantes because there is no ideology behind this bivariate presentation. Simply the art of telling the story well short of a being mad and provoke not only a half smile, but also wonder at the mystery of the human mind.
With Charly Martinez Toledo Peruvian tradition of the story and is prepared to open a new path. Narrator is a young man who has filled us with expectations of this small but great example of an overflowing imagination, like a master of 'storytelling' is involved, based on the art of reading and writing with discipline.
München, July 2009.
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