good literature that you can enjoy in peace

Production by Tomás González stands out for its Honduras and the human content of its stories. From the first books (here we review the first work –The first was the sea– which, although it dates from 1983, was republished in 2024), the literature of the Colombian storyteller reveals a clear vision before the reality that surrounds it, the vision of a sharp and calm writer, in a certain way complete, who ask for an attentive recipient, someone who doesn’t just want a distractionuntil it is possible to appreciate the matrix and the meanings in the sense of the text.

An example of this Difficult light (2011, Sexto Piso, 2023), a miracle of strife that reflects something as compromising as a father’s hope before the euthanasia of his child and the very process of blindness many years later.

En A view of the abyss Tomás González reinvents himself in the short genre. A bundle group a dozen seemingly local relationships that nevertheless have a clear universal character. They form conspiracies that happen to the general, in a family context (best for feeling and catharsis, according to Aristotle), p very open final (some of them openly at the end) that seem to be written out of silence, less than the care required to deliver the book.

Most of them will take portraits or descriptions of specific situations in which the protagonists have something to decide or show, because each evening, viewed with restraint, they present details that require attention. These messages are often held and I feel humor – sometimes black and sometimes soft and natural – which suspends the activity of the applied reader.

The bright and calm writer Tomás González stands out for his Honduras and the human content of his stories

Parejas who, faced with the impossibility of living together, are forced to share a common house, even if they wonder and long; family fathers who leave the house plant pain and be able to meet again, invent a new love; hermanos which, after the death of one of them, and after seeing part of their scenes, their existence was changed; Twins whose hearts will last longer until death; a person who, with the passage of time, forgets all this in a degenerative process that turns it into a primordial innocence; the voices never uttered that only one place could hear them; husband and lover who are happy; men who commit suicide; appears to be peeled; elderly people who are demented; buildings that are blown up; the end of the individual which is always bitter; a domesticated deer that distinguishes colors and ends up on the highway…, characters that reveal the depths of life.

At the bottom of this reality lies the mystery of a community drowned by waters that were “slow, calm, implacable” and that will reappear when the surface disappears. It also includes abandoned houses, muddy streets, unprotected deaths, and objects buried by others to remain in the shadows. In the light, confused in the amniotic feeling of indifference, only the retaliatory river remained, which on the surface creates islands, peninsulas and bays where unprecedented nature blooms: African tulip, pink, fuchsia, golden rose, guayacán, naranjo or arbol de abol de abol. Good literature that you can enjoy in peace.