Perra Brava just finished of Orpah Alarcón, and I'm excited and impressed. I came to the novel thanks to the enthusiastic support of Cristina Rivera Garza, who in his column Millennium called "the narrator I've been waiting a long time." Apart from that I loved and I think a book of first bill, there are a few considerations on the novel, which was causing me as I read.
1. In a strong literary tradition of linguistic self-consciousness (see the big doubt Daniel Sada, for example, or a teacher of language Yuri Herrera), Orpah Alarcón shows, as does Ruy Xoconostle the enormous literary value of ease, of a writing fresh and direct where you feel the need either to show the tissues or apparently thought. The speech of the protagonist, Fernanda, is rich without being imposts, without being deliberately literary aesthetic.
2. Important to cover the hole of the female character in literature violence. It's amazing that in a country of killers, accomplices of kidnapping, rape victims and many other things, the subject is so tremendously literary men. Fernanda break fees in a much more original than the Queen of the South by Perez Reverte, iconicity does not aspire to, but to inhabit his world.
3. Perra Brava is in some sense, one of the best recent Mexican novels about the problem of desire. The body is a key player in all levels of the book: the blood that disgusts the protagonist, the desire for the man "sucked", the body that is played without quench the lust ...
4. The importance the blunt phrase: "I drank the delicious night and I ate a Japanese dude birth, Colombian descent." Orpah Alarcón is a master of the sentence shows and hits, which does not declare that articulates poetry and sordid in its cadence. The opening sentence is another great example: "I knew it could kill me with one hand."
5. The serious novelist, as is Orpah Alarcón, has developed a nose for the culture of his time, and vicious dogs approach to music Cartel de Santa is just that: an understanding of their sleaze and poetry, its relevance in the attempt to survive the times.
6. It is easy to slip ethically issues Perra Brava Orpah Alarcón yet does not. There is no exploitation, no sensationalism, no glorification. Just the naked violence portrayed in its daily impact on the life of Fernanda and all its destructive power.
7. Perra brava is a great novel. You have to read it.
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