LANGUAGE OF CLOTH 320 pages, EUR 21.85
Moving away from custom and original look, provocative and ironic, Cristina Cerrada (Madrid, 1970), explores this through her second novel "durable partnerships" in the difficulty of coping with a dull life, familiar and relatively stable, when to do so has had to give up what is most desired. In the words the writer: "To what extent the abandonment of one's identity and the fantasies that have accompanied you during the first years of your life are well tolerated after release?". Barnabas
Leblanc has shifted from anthropology classes in college to work as a laborer in a town hall cleaning. Gone are his dreams of becoming a researcher, to travel to remote places to study primitive tribes. Given the economic difficulties that is, moves to the house of his father with his large family-four daughters, a granddaughter, his wife, the husband of the eldest daughter. Barnabas endured the situation "The despotism of their leader in the cleaning unit, the rantings and ravings of his father, etc.," but everything gets complicated when a former professional colleague offered to drop everything and travel to the South Pacific to investigate the sexual mores of a tribe uncommon.
"enduring alliance" is thus a dramatic comedy that takes us, without falling into easy sentimentality, a harsh and stark reality, a world where happiness is, at best, a rather complicated task.
The structure of the novel is conventional, the narrator begins by showing a "snapshot" of the life of Barnabas and then follow chronological order in which the narrative intersperses flashbacks when required, "but is in the style, direct prose, sharp and concise, to the simplicity of its descriptions, the successful management of the metaphors of situation, where the novel really stands out. If all of this, moreover, we add an outstanding job with the dialogue and characters complex and contradictory that they evolve from the first page and able to establish a great rapport with the reader, we can conclude by affirming that this is a negligible text, high literary quality, and with a good dose of a particular humor, both subtle and poignant. Ricardo
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