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signs of decomposition
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signs of decomposition, Norberto Luis Romero, Valdemar, Madrid, 1997, 205 pp.
Signs With the release of decomposition, the editorial Valdemar us about the first novel by Norberto Luis Romero (Córdoba, 1949), Argentine-born author spent so far to the practice of short stories.
To cover the purpose contained in this book, just a simple point: we attended the first-person account of an unhealthy self-absorption, that of a character that soothes his pain with memories and tame his flesh with abuse.
His mother dying and the intruder, who plans on his obsessions, he closed with a triangle of neurotic hostility and internal disharmony, three-sided conflict that gives way to another sleepless in the narrator, this time linked to its physical nature: the certainty of containing a tapeworm in your gut package. In
signs of decomposition, the insurmountable retirement, indolent neglect of the protagonist draw the paths of their physical and mental decline, distort the perception he has of himself and also distort his writing, in the manner of a portrait almost veiled where the crisp and imprecise overlap on the photographic paper.
This ambivalence makes the author explore areas where certainty loses foot, and gives way to aberrant particularly when installed on the central figure alone delirium and uncontrollable sliding spirit. This narrator
Romero idea with so much talent living in the grip of a series of fantasies of excretion which is the most emphatic indication I had. Disturbed, overestimates the qualities of the parasite and watch their evolution as a martyr, but also as if this creature were a prized fruit.
psychogenic root of this madness is evident from the first pages of the novel.
In fact, the author tells us, speaking through his character, the amazing pleasure of seclusion in an environment of decay, which identifies the drama continued ferment intimate consumed outside and inside the main character, subject to the instability of his body and, worse, to the fluctuations of dementia.
The most notable qualities of this novel have to do with his consistent and effective way to externalize the relief of being tormented, furtive, but above all with the construction of a strange and captivating atmosphere.
With these signs of decomposition, Romero proves to be a teller of quality, who will follow with interest in their future creations. Copyright © Guzmán
Urrere. This article was originally published in the magazine Cuadernos Hispano. All rights reserved.
Film and Literature.
signs of decomposition, the insurmountable retirement, indolent neglect of the protagonist draw the paths of their physical and mental decline, distort the perception he has of himself and also distort his writing, in the manner of a portrait almost veiled where the crisp and imprecise overlap on the photographic paper.
This ambivalence makes the author explore areas where certainty loses foot, and gives way to aberrant particularly when installed on the central figure alone delirium and uncontrollable sliding spirit. This narrator
Romero idea with so much talent living in the grip of a series of fantasies of excretion which is the most emphatic indication I had. Disturbed, overestimates the qualities of the parasite and watch their evolution as a martyr, but also as if this creature were a prized fruit.
psychogenic root of this madness is evident from the first pages of the novel.
In fact, the author tells us, speaking through his character, the amazing pleasure of seclusion in an environment of decay, which identifies the drama continued ferment intimate consumed outside and inside the main character, subject to the instability of his body and, worse, to the fluctuations of dementia.
The most notable qualities of this novel have to do with his consistent and effective way to externalize the relief of being tormented, furtive, but above all with the construction of a strange and captivating atmosphere.
With these signs of decomposition, Romero proves to be a teller of quality, who will follow with interest in their future creations. Copyright © Guzmán
Urrere. This article was originally published in the magazine Cuadernos Hispano. All rights reserved.
Film and Literature.
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