the otherness of a national symbol in "CONDORS not bury EVERY DAY" OF GUSTAVO ALVAREZ Gardeazabal
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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addressing the work of Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal started reading with their own prejudices that every reader is either the work or the author, because if we stop at the date of its publication (1972) in which stories were written for amounts related to the bipartisan violence can guess the subject to be treated, especially if this is written as a chronicle. Well, the story takes place in the city of Tulua where a seller of cheese and passionate supporter of the Conservative Party is the symbol of the grim story that this time we calls. Leon Maria Lozano, who takes the pseudonym of "condor" organized a violent movement (initially secret) to secure the conservative vocation of its people.
already at this point I skipped over fifty pages, so back to the beginning: Leon Maria Lozano, apart from meeting its cheese business was aware of the issues the church and the Conservative Party, he shared his life with Agrippina, a barren woman, which does not indicate that Leon Maria Lozano would never be a father, nay, him, which apparently followed the precepts of the church, held a clandestine relationship with Maria Luisa de la Espada queconcibió with two daughters.
After the death of Maria Luisa things in the life of Leon changed, so "desperate to be caring for two daughters remote control that left Maria Luisa de la Espada, appeared them one afternoon when Agrippina was getting the pads of rosemary to see if I could be fertile once in a lifetime "(p. 22). Agrippina accepted without words the presence of two small house.
Leon's personality Maria Lozano is the quintessential cult figure of a man of strong personality and keen senses, who smiles in the face of death without blinking once. As expected, taking care of his daughters with zeal and away to that intended, as shown in the following quote, in which tells the condor strategies used to ward off suitors: "He climbed up a ladder from the patio carrying in his hands a bowl of water stirred with ammonia, turpentine, urine and soap foam ingredients were found groping in the dark and emptying bedpans " (P. 34).
In this way the reader will idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a "Condor" Lozano who only looked vulnerable due to suffering from asthma since childhood and that in each crisis had heard the gallop infernal apocalyptic rider. You could say that in his chest from an early age listening to the lament of countless number of victims product of radical conservatism which neither drank sugar water to calm flare-ups could counteract.
The power that came to have this man was giving it gradually, in the story is a character who, with "poetic carriages" praised the delivery of León to the pastoral and political reason for the Conservative Party. Dr. Ramirez "defender of the established order of truth imposed and tradition" (p.51) gave confidence translated into boxes of arms to start the slaughter of non-supporters of his political ideas.
Since then is when you start otherness of acts of this man and his entourage of murderers, staining Blood Cauca river water as shown in the following quote: "(...) the found three days later, Cauca bandolines tied down with the neck and no other company than a buzzard alone in their stomachs" (pág.90) . Although the acts carried with it a macabre sign, such as the castration and dismemberment of bodies, it is noteworthy that the subtlety with which these subjects came was almost imperceptible as the stealth of a cat hunting in the dark.
Small with Gothic letters were created as a form of intimidation, in place of encounter with the "Birds" -the "happy bar" - it was a game for them, since the best letter that was stamped blood clots on the massacred bodies of bullet or machete, scattered like seed on fertile fields of the header Tulua urban and rural, which germinated each morning bringing desolation and anguish.
Leon Maria Lozano is dead, was the cry that was heard throughout the city. Is a sudden change but not required to disclose more data to the reader of this review, who at the time of making this work will find out if he died poisoned by the cheese that came to home as a gift, or because of a stabbing when he was in exile newspaper. Anyway, the reader can go line by line this work and acknowledge that in Colombia "Condors do not bury every day .
Book Details: Gardeazabal Gustavo Alvarez. Condors not bury every day. Pijao-house publishers books 2008.
By: John Edwin Trujillo
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