Friday, September 10, 2010
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I just finished a couple of novels latter one of two contemporary American writers who come back from time to time. Until I Find You by John Irving, and Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster. These two are part of a generation authors focused on the American northeast, with very different worlds, but with a common touch. Both novels seem to me as emblematic or gathered from the personal worlds of both artists, and both cause me a good feeling going into the house of someone you know, to return to a beloved place and see that everything is exactly as you left .
John Irving has written a novel that I find many parallels with The World According to Garp, his most famous work. With plenty of autobiographical references, contains many very familiar narrative elements in it: a dysfunctional family, the disappearance of a father figure, the constant weight and secretive past experiences of childhood, that past issues unresolved, which will continue to always be there, and that will come out of a sudden, abrupt onset and absurd death. But Irving's tone is far from tragic or sentimental. He is a writer who loves the eccentricity, humor and sarcasm, but has a knack for, in his monumental novel, find a room for tenderness. I do not remember having cried so much reading a book as difficult A woman and several of the characters in this novel are reflected in Until I Find You.
Paul Auster continues to turn in Brooklyn Follies, with some of the issues he was passionate, chance and destination as the most important of them. The random, absurd, manslaughter, as a mechanism that rotates and move their lives. The characters are usually stuffed to the shocks of life lead them to different places. There are more issues here that are very common in his work: the lure of the abyss and fall, family relationships, starting again when it seems that it is not possible, the search for identity and of space itself. A novel optimistic, good sense, that is, not everything goes well because the world is wonderful, but, considering how brutal it can be the life and fate, people overlap.
Both writers like me, talk about issues I'm interested (the parent-child relationships are very important in both, and now for reasons we all know are priorities), and do so without verbiage, clearly, no modern author fumes.
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