We are teammates of fate with the souls of storytellers

The circumstance that Landero imagines is a great test that on January 8, 2021, and for two more days, he will remain in a mountain hotel, incommunicado and without shelter, to spend the day in his travels as a traveler.

There they are reunited, the juguettes of fate, a lucky railwayman, a professor of various subjects, a doctor, a journalist by profession of a writer, the commander of the Caballeria and two friends, or even more, a bookseller and another professor of philosophy. you are they choose to distract themselves by talking, by telling storiesnext year. Courtesy of their husbands, they enter into a marriage ruled by the hostess.

Highlight the first place where the absolute best is confirmed the human tendency to count. We identify four rewarding needs: “work, come, beget and count”. One says so, but we see in it the voice of our Lander and recognize the great rasgo of his literature.

Because of the various characters – or the author in his mouth – they insist on the premise: “We all care about something”, we all care “souls of storytellers”“when we pass something, we long to count it”, our example “has an insatiable passion” and “easy” to count. On the other hand, let’s just say that if you learn a lot, you learn a lot.

Support the prisoners in this community, place them on the march and each of them reflects on their personal experiences, one episode of simple appearance and the next a halo of invention or mystery. So let’s go through a sample of stories that can be used to create a Russian story that contains another within itself. But it’s not innocent fun. In this “table of tricks”, to decipher it using Cervante’s term, various assumptions are suitable for debate.

Quizás el amor has the lion’s share. There is a lot of reflective power in this Lander for many reasons. It belongs to this series of ideal life aspirations – “afanes”, the author’s term for perfection – that cannot be fulfilled or that are swallowed up by inevitable transitions. If downloaded to love as an ideal and incalculable algoas a speciesism. And on the many pages dedicated to them, the reality of impossible desires that arise during a crash or in a dream disappears.

The eagle’s expression of passion and truth reveals to Lander that he is honestly and truthfully, with clarity and unnatural pathos, conveying his perspective on this basic human feeling. For this reason, I print in the “colloquium” opinions that appeal to readers intensively: idealism and happiness, love and desire are not lostlemons. Or also that “desire is the most intense and beautiful of eroticism and love”. This does not invalidate the romantic perception of love.

Love – which is, of course, also an “invention” – opens the door to a general exploration of the “mysterious” world of feelings. And just like in a collection of related allusions, the characters think seduction, heavens (“self-sufficient passion”), affection for women, erotic play, beauty, courage and fidelity. O hablane, in this repertoire of anxieties and determinants of human kind, fate, the fragility of life, freedom, happiness.

Thus Winter interview It has a repository of ideas. Some general words: we are jugettes of fate, it is determined by character and training, These people are not completely transparentlife is a collection of moments that are often abandoned, leads to a negative tendency to proselytize…

Other things, very specific: one of the regrets of our country is that “Español, than it should, can escape”. Finally a new opportunity to present extra-condición de la vida as projected in a panoramic view: “Human soul, where does it feel? Where does life feel?”.

With a warm emotional background, this “Winter Talk” is read, also with great pleasure, with great interest

Tales observaciones e interrogantes de existential and philosophical background if they lose sight of the dynamics and versatile cast of characters, we encounter here a constant contrast of opinions, opinions and contradictions, constant reproaches. Nothing more than preaching or dogmatic rigidity.

This is how Landero presents itself a thought novelbut spread them out with great thought in the plot of a living narrative, a vicissitude that unfolds and progresses with great formal skill and in a good sense as recognition and a return home to the classical forms of the message. The soldier reveals this, but I assume, as it seems to me, his own Lander’s complaint.

The commander will deal with the case – he says – clearly, soberly and precisely, without rodeo or discursive questions to cloud the matter, without effective coups who strive for the artist’s enlightenment.

No hay en Winter interview rebuscamentos, formal artifices or illuminations of the author, in fact, and yes a spectacular dose of anecdotes which they say to the characters. The action breaks into sleep and resumes the next morning.

The story being told begins in two places to better maintain tension. Your friends are aware of the fact that they are affected by two additional voices. If the stories are punctuated by apostilles, then this is indicated in one’s own words, just as in authentic oral communication, eye commentary forms part of the narrative.

Luis Landero has the appetite to count and offer formal skills in this modern spinning mill a global meditation on human nature. On an anthropological basis, there is no essential well-being or warm emotional background, especially notable for appreciating the values ​​of the past – and feeling “alien in the presence” of man – for the first time in today’s world. If we add to these reasons a clear answer in favor of human relations, the winter conversation takes place, also with great pleasure, with great interest.