I think, and this is just a guess, that a story book should leave you wanting more. Should leave you hungry and with a sense of embarrassment, of indigestion, exhausting banquet. I suppose, and this is another intuition that Pablo Lorente wanted to gather in one book all the stories he has written since 2004. And six years they moved several times for skin. I believe, and I am sure that is not the reader work threshing, espedregar a book. And it is unfair ask the writer to make the painful task of self-amputation to divide their children in beautiful and ugly. That must be the publisher who take the scissors and trim, cutting branches and give the exact size and shape. And I, timidly, "that this book would have been perfect selecting stories. Because its two hundred and thirty pages are for two books. One round, full, and another B-side Because in this compilation is long gone a series of stories linked by the thematic coherence and intensity. And the first full in the center of the target is presented in "Alamin" , a story that teaches us the germ of literature Paul cross. Your success will be repeated later and many more times. The characters and landscapes, scenery and narration, the conjunction of scenery, action, props and feelings. Mirror that, magically, does not hide the wrinkles or gray hairs . Reflects that no man's land and human beings that inhabit it, passageways and nationality; life and traces, escape, death, memory, truth and lies. Places on maps do not know and which nevertheless exist and are inhabited. Which they belong, believe it or not, our civilization happiness.
Pablo's narrative , the most successful and admirable, that wins when we hurt, is in those Stories from nowhere based on real events that draw in modern history and its protagonists, its anonymous extras, alive and real. Documentary, literary remake transcribed recent collective shame, the wounds without closing and the new ones are opened every day in this sky no longer burn off only . These stories are
sensed a world map from the pages of a newspaper or television screen. Most spent the page and change the channel; Paul , however, forces us to look. There is some trial testimony, critique of this society, in this global world and sick. There is a lot of literary journalism, narrative naked and without artifice observation. Paul reminds us that the world revolves and shows us his pustules. Paul asked to speak from their indignation and denunciation our rapid forgetting, our lazy comfort, our greedy frivolity. Paul stop watches, writes with anger, irony, realism and compassion. Write tales "Once upon a time in a faraway country" who happens to be ours. The earth's crust in which we move without distress, a cruel place and plastic in which we forget the people, their pain and loneliness beating a few steps from our house, a few miles by car, plane a few hours.
Pablo Muñoz Lorente. "Tales from Nowhere" Eclipsed Editorial. Zaragoza, 2010.
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