Robert Graves claims that Eros hatched the world, was the first of the gods, because without him none of the others have been born, as well the eternal struggle with Thanatos is essential for the balance of the world. Well, in the story of Carlos Gamboa, in his book, Imperfect Dream evidenced dual coexistence among these gods.
this author's book brings ibaguereño 23 stories, among them leads to short story. The variety of themes are a passageway to the shelves of our library, but in the end, the purpose Imperfect Dream is to reflect on dark labyrinths of the human, which actually makes look away.
The story begins with a dogmatic Catholic, despite his wounds, their pains and care , can not leave the religious reading, the truths that determine their job in the world. He knows his game to paradise can be close and " then wrote a note to John Eskin giving relevant instructions: Take charge of the office " (p. 37). No longer practical religious activity because disease.
From then changes the narrator. It takes a girl to describe the appearance of this dogmatic, his thinking and his features, " your arms touching the ground and his feet like two old trees twins" (p. 38). Despite the surreal in the images, and perhaps therefore women venturing into a plot to obtain a means of finding their wishes.
Eroticism is always attacked by religious institutions as Eros is the best way to have a separation was crazy with the art to have a freedom of spirit for them and humanity. In this sense, the dogmatic betrays its principles and approaches to research carnal and lascivious. The woman finds it "... the last time she dared to come to my house was to investigate the behavior of prostitutes "(p. 38).
The story is set in the middle of speeches to Catholics and the young the language used by him, reveals the human-divine union; word and language of God through man. But, as women, speech is an essential goal: persuasion and defilement. "That day says she had a premonition of being faced with a personified god "(p. 38). And the story is taking its scarlet, intensity, and she, after a tap on the forehead by El Salvador, loses consciousness and wakes up in a room ends of the enclosure.
The story begins to become carnal, erotic and comes to reinvent human values, so that women become the sacrificial lamb of God, and consecrated by his word sent. As she says, "At the conclusion of the sermon his hands made their way between my legs and my breasts were rapidly floating in the air with the smell of incense ." (P. 40). The speech is getting purpose and incestuous smell, the smell of lust, the diverse nature of the human condition, moving your endless pleasure doing multiply our feelings and awaken the unknown.
occult references in the character, something evil, demonized by the lusts of men in their priestly doctrine . would be a dark morality becomes the dogmatic carnal fun.
Finally scarlet red blood catch a symbolism of purity (Virginity of the young) and the blanket of dogmatic authority, salvation, where the image is a chance encounter that reveals and brings us, finally, of ourselves, "Calc my sandals and join the sofa I saw a trickle of blood ... "(p.40).
LUIS FERNANDO ABELLO
Book Details: Carlos Arturo Bobadilla GAMBOA "Imperfect Dream", Universidad del Tolima, Colombia, 2009
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