Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tally7.2 Data To Tally 9
The sirens continue to fascinate
Author: Norberto Luis Romero
Editorial: Valdemar, 2002 Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 8477024103
Pages: 304
great writer of religion, minorities, telling staff so exquisite and the most grotesque perversions. And despite that, it leaves a good taste in your mouth.
"Island of Sirens", which can almost be said to belong to the Gothic novel, plunges us into a story that mixes fantasy and thriller masterfully, where twin brothers, Carnal and Serafin, live with their grandparents: Anselmo , an elder with dementia, and Adelina, who attends seances occasionally. An island that has served prison and gallows equally. Carnal research in your terrarium nasty habits of insects that feed on corpses. In turn, corresponds with his uncle, who emigrated to Australia and never seen again except in letter and in this way is a strange obsession born inside, which leads him to commit the crimes most miserable. A love triangle
morbid unexplained deaths on the island weave this story.
As usual in his novels, is a stranger who breaks into the lives of the characters, and upsetting everything. In this case Neil, a young man who collects and studies marine snails, harmony that breaks the house and close and strange relationship of the twins.
still seems all in a dreamlike atmosphere, the novel is set in the days when Russia launches into space in Sputnik II, with the dog Laika on board.
claustrophobic atmosphere present on every page where the reader can not stop reading to get through and discover the gruesome secrets of the family hero or the other inhabitants, who are mostly relatives of a cruel man, a terrible ancestor : an executioner.
He himself says that "art is to create tension and increasingly to maintain throughout the narrative and do not break out in characters, but in the soul or consciousness of the reader. They are the readers who must endure the drama, not the characters, they are mere transmitters. " So that structures events throughout history, just preventing us to catch air.
A pleasure to read this man. Posted by Shorby
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morbid unexplained deaths on the island weave this story.
As usual in his novels, is a stranger who breaks into the lives of the characters, and upsetting everything. In this case Neil, a young man who collects and studies marine snails, harmony that breaks the house and close and strange relationship of the twins.
still seems all in a dreamlike atmosphere, the novel is set in the days when Russia launches into space in Sputnik II, with the dog Laika on board.
claustrophobic atmosphere present on every page where the reader can not stop reading to get through and discover the gruesome secrets of the family hero or the other inhabitants, who are mostly relatives of a cruel man, a terrible ancestor : an executioner.
He himself says that "art is to create tension and increasingly to maintain throughout the narrative and do not break out in characters, but in the soul or consciousness of the reader. They are the readers who must endure the drama, not the characters, they are mere transmitters. " So that structures events throughout history, just preventing us to catch air.
A pleasure to read this man. Posted by Shorby
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