Images of the neighborhood, the sea, flood Colombian culture tales Roberto Burgos Cantor. These first words may sound to pay for editorial text, but is the first thing out of my head once I finished reading a few stories of this writer Cartagena. What Amador and Other Stories is a collection of writings that focus on the culture of the periphery of the country, filled with sand and arepa 'e egg, a world that so far has been alien to me and to the which I am just a 'cachaca'.
My mother always told me that we (the 'inside') is difficult to understand the 'costeñol', and I know so, because I've always felt a certain disabilities hearing when any person, any of our two beautiful coastline, turns to me. In effect, this became hearing impaired reading a barrier in the time I read this book, because there is no doubt, for anyone who reads it, that the lack of punctuation in long paragraphs generates a certain fatigue. Nor is it a secret that the coastal people talk fast and that this book is written 'as is, baby. "
Before talking about the stories and the construction of the characters in Burgos, I want to offer (not in advance) an apology to any reader who can come to feel offended by what I said about the culture of coast, or language Cartagena author's texts, which in truth, I think has very good command of it.
continue: as the characters, Burgos is able to develop unique and subtle characteristics in each of them very characteristics that give the necessary nuances to each of the stories, and even score the same lack of credibility can be found in very speed with which advances the story.
Additionally, I feel a little Burgos Parnassian to judge by the occasional comma forgotten. And so is Colombia, or so I see it as a country full of things to forget and others that are invented, people-characters, such as Burgos, despite misfortunes are capable of singing and dancing, but still die convinced that everything is just a dream that allows her sad condition.
perish then all this late in the Latin sense, and does so everyday we could not generate more wonder in a child reader rencauchadas news and soap operas, but in the stories of Burgos succeed, and create a certain tension is interrupted only when you must, by force, stop reading to take a break and not get lost in the midst of recipes, lists and reviews of beauty queens.
Undoubtedly, the tales of Burgos have an important national asset, in terms of literary value, but I still think a bit inconsiderate to the reader, this misreading of punctuation marks that create paragraphs and entire pages that once they lose a little history. In fact I get distracted easily and I need some rest.
But if you are willing to take a reading marathon, this is the book you need to train. Seriously, is a valuable text, laden with such symbolism that we are home and are printed with the mark of a whole society that has refused to leave after a few values \u200b\u200bthat made it what it is today. Not to forget then that Colombia since its foundation, shortly after the time of independence, sought a way to open space in a liberal world is heading for a capitalism that was gradually taking the continent itself.
live in a country that was formed on imports and foreign cultures but managed to preserve their own and even alter each arriving and the native, and so, as the stories of Burgos, made with all the innovation that European movements may come to be part of a community resistant to change but a dreamer with a significant difference.
Writer: Johanna Nazly López Pita
Book Details: Burgos C,, Roberto. The Amador and other stories. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1984.
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