"When the war subsides ... When will this time? Gone half a century since then and still nothing, the war that does not stop, change of face no more. " The crowd wandering is a title that could well express the attitude of the Colombian people in any electoral events or simply the fate of a nation condemned for its lack of historical and political consciousness to the eternal future of violence and misery, the failings of memory.
However, in the case of Laura Restrepo Bogotá Casabianca, known for its award-winning novels company Dulce (1995) and Delirio (2004), The crowd wandering (2001) is name given to a short story dedicated to exploring the deepest fibers of the drama of forced displacement and dispossession caused by the war. In this story, which is the sum of many stories, each character is a portrait of a search, the search for the destination of the past, land or love. Its pages nostalgic
reconstructed through a narrative of great beauty and resources, Colombia's war, where whole villages were evicted from their land by violence and violence accompanying his footsteps as an epidemic that was expanding. The whole story is a game between this narrator character (a woman of good family who volunteers at a shelter for French nuns which provides assistance to all sorts of beings stripped) and the story of seven for three, a shift that is part of a crowd of survivors wandering in a village obliterated by the war in the face of the earth. Seven
three is a quiet and reserved man, distinguished from the crowd by having a finger on his right foot over and owning one's own mysterious past who are abandoned while being very small. A day comes to the shelter asked Matilde Lina, a young laundress who was his foster mother since the day it was abandoned and, of course, the grilling of fate and war away from him forever in the middle of an ambush. This is how this man who tirelessly search your loved one without success, is to change and without thinking it is confident that plunged into the depths of his life.
is she who tells us all about it and its origin, the destruction of the armies Dancer Santamaría conservative and err on the survivors in the jungle in search of a new land. Is this woman who talks about this other woman, Matilde Lina, and undertakes feel desperate odyssey of three in your search. From his mouth off simultaneously the most profound reflections on warfare and the most intimate confessions about his feelings for this man of 21 fingers.
The novel, in general, has multiple attractions, the most noticeable handling a language full of well-constructed images, which, combined with reflections of high caliber, catch the reader. But there is also the irrelevance of some episodes that detract credibility to the story, such as those which blurs the profile of a displaced (in the case of Mrs. Perpetua) suspiciously by enriching their ways of expressing themselves, or just this one where a demonstration of young people around the shelter to protect it. By far these facts differ from most of the story and are conspicuous by their ingenuity.
not enough, despite these minor flaws, Errante The crowd is one of the novels that is the subject of bipartisan violence without resorting to the harshness of the facts or subject to bias infertile pamphlet literature making room for the contradictions of the human condition that goes well with the ambiguity of the literature. For this reason and the strength of his narrative style, it should be closer to the pages of this book, guaranteed by little, a few hours of wandering journey through the corridors of our history and even today the ghosts that are chasing, or I would say our narrator a walk "on the underside of the mat, where knots of reality are revealed." DAMIEN
GUAVA GARAY
SHEET BOOK:
RESTREPO, Laura. The crowd wandering . Colombian letters library today. Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2007. 138 p.
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