are few institutions committed to the dissemination of peripheral literatures. When there are some publishing groups, one administration or another department is venturing into such a feat, managing, if not begging-projects to certain State agencies compile and externalizing enabling the production of those little-known writers. In this context, emerged several anthologies and compilations. Libanenses Library of Culture, for example, is irrefutable evidence that in attempting to collect eleven volumes of poetry and narrative most significant writers of Lebanon, among those who stand Eduardo Santa, Celedonio Orjuela, Alberto Machado, Fabio Restrepo Morales others.
number nine volumes of this library, entitled First Friday and other stories , is dedicated to José Ángel Berceli Forero, a writer whose production had been leaked story contests, especially in the National Short Story Competition "Ciudad de Barrancabermeja", and which had the opportunity to qualify for the finals, standing with my grandfather's body in 2001 and Salome in 2002. Compound
ten stories, First Friday and other stories reworked several situations typical of the human condition, but developed in the atmosphere of the province and rurality: the lonely woman eager to meet her husband's absence, the anguish caused by the departure of a loved one, sexual deviations an empirical musician, moving up the social ladder by way of claiming illegality and other ordinary characters who pass through steep streets and the central plaza of a town.
Most titles that begin with the narratives are a good appetizer for the reader. For example, "Alegro Crescendo", "Homecoming," "First Friday", "Ennui" and "Redress" is entered in this line, because concealed in the first instance, the story they tell texts. However, once covered its meaning is revealed, and who reads provides a direct relationship with the title, which contains one bit of the content of the narratives.
On the other hand, are stories that emphasize different narrators and points of view: sometimes depart from memories of an adult, a youth or a child and sometimes favor an omniscient narrator who occasionally gives the characters a chance to intervene. In addition, enriched with numerous digressions that provide important details and override another that gives the stories a break from linearity in the sink sometimes.
Similarly, a significant portion of the stories found in the village, taken as a space, a point of confluence. This is configured, not only necessary and relevant descriptions, but also the attitudes of the characters, who behave like villagers who are, and with minimal descriptions about the clothes they wear, which reveals the lack of civility developed.
Finally, First Friday and other stories, in the middle of realism that characterizes it, offers views of the exploited, a different view of life and its conflicts. How do you see a young man in a relationship? How are the problems from the standpoint of a child? How a mother feels through the voice of his youngest son? Are some questions that address the stories. Thus, exploring the human condition through different eyes, perhaps not very noticeable once, but on this occasion have a place.
The stories of Joseph Angel Forero Berceli labeled as regional literature, but worth reading, since from the peripheral experience achieved an approach to human life, which, independent of space and time, is defined by tension, euphoria, sadness and misery that manage to build First Friday and other stories.
Gabriel Bermúdez. Forero
Angel Berceli. First Friday and other stories . Library Culture libanenses. Bogotá: Codex, 2006.
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