dj The mass as a choreographer
The Catalan writer Jo Alexander with only 19 published a novel called Strange creatures (Grijalbo Mondadori, 1998). I do not remember much about the novel, to be fair: I found a work too hasty, and that she said when he published his second book, thirteen years later, he was full of errors. However, Strange Creatures had some sociological values, say that since the early novels of Bret Easton Ellis, very well read some of his time environments. In the case of Alexander the atmosphere was that of nightclubs, describing exactly how the DJ or DJs became a kind of guru of the night and the driver of the other, to guide the movement of the huddled masses for fun in the rhythm of it . A kind of musical Petronio was to fashion a song, or alter or create a new sample pieces of others. The dj presented as a choreographer, as pastor of mass dance frantically, but without leaving the same space: the square meter of space for dancing. The club as a meeting place, with its rites of incorporation, and stay out: "I was already forty-odd blocks, and once inside, saw how people looked at me rather badly, as in other clubs in Madrid, my eyes filled her with respect "(Miqui Otero, Music channels; Alpha Decay, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010, p. 233 .) The pubs and nightclubs
as locations in which, as noted earlier in another novel Pedro Maestre sociological Killing dinosaurs with slingshots (Destination, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1996), simultaneously share their leisure time people from two and up three different generations, but not obvious demarcations.
the nightclub scene in Open Your Eyes Amenabar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujngooxc2x4
Life daytime, nightlife
This year there have been two short novels focused or localized in a similar environment, different not only Strange creatures but also very different from each other, despite being young its three authors: Electronics Clara (Language of Cloth, Madrid, 2010), Guillermo Aguirre, and Exhumation (Alpha Decay , Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010), written by the so far only literary critic Antonio J. Rodriguez and poet Miguel Luna. In both you can attend to the "Wars between Hades and Eros. Among the Living Dead by the Music Club and the militia defending the old values \u200b\u200bof Humanism "(Exhumation , p. 7), because it sees a tension between the vampire enjoy the night life, in novels characterized by debauchery and drug use to avoid reality, and the day world and humanist literature as a way to recreate reality, or to delve into it. Both works are in a dialectical tension between time and hobby, aesthetic enjoyment and the enjoyment body, depth and surface, "Darling, can not remain deep without a surface" (Exhumation , p. 15); "surface to surface is that something the cover: it is now back (Clara Electronics, p. 64). I imagine that the dispute is identical to that faced by the authors, who reconciled his humanistic side of the still young age of spinning, while gaining speed and escape. In any case, this contradiction visible on the characters of both novels is not very different from modern man suffers, at least if we consider the definition of Daniel Bell productive individual, "the commercial corporation needs a hard working individual, pursue a career, accept delayed gratification-that is, in the sense more crude, an organization man. And yet, in its products and in advertising, the corporation promotes pleasure, instant enjoyment, relaxation and letting go. One must be straight during the day and night thrombus " [1] . In the same sense Bell, Lipovetsky writes: "the hyper-hyper appears accompanied by a pronounced, legislator himself, sometimes cautious and calculating, sometimes messy, unbalanced and chaotic " [2] . Combining these theoretical appointments with the content of the novels, which we would do in that they both reflect on the economic condition of the characters and their relationship to leisure (in Electronics Clara is sometimes appeals to nature "junk" in the employment contracts of the players and the Exhumation myth of "job satisfaction", p. 14), we can infer that the clubs would also be the place where social status flaunts reached (the reserved VIP, which is referred to in Exhumation), or where it is neutralized aggression generated by non-fulfillment through the trance dance and lysergic evasion. Yes, there are also people who going to clubs to have fun in their leisure time, of course, but here we talk about real life but its concrete recreation of two novels, and both can be seen that the diurnal occlusion in pure entropy, as well as an insistent tendency of characters to rush the night, carpe noctem enjoy (Aurora Luque dixit) to the end ( households Clara Electronics are "aftercasas") and so I dare say that has some sociological excess in the two novels, and calls for a total mode hopelessness or absolute emptiness of the characters who are trying to fill, unsuccessfully, by the experience of love.
Three other common elements with the two novels: Madrid as a narrative, metaliterature and electronic music.
Madrid
The two novels are moving operations out over Madrid as a narrative. Antonio J. Rodriguez, one of the authors of Exhumation , dedicated in a recent issue of Chimera an article to the narrative visions of the English capital, an article which unfortunately I have to hand at the time of writing. Exhumation In the process of filing Madrid aims to produce estrangement distinguishing between one part of Madrid, the center, and others. In any case, almost post-apocalyptic vision "on both sides of the highway, the soil viscous tectonic earthquakes. Caravans, trucks, aircraft Trojan crowd at the gates of Madrizentro, immobilized for hours, reluctant to leave the storm from the bunker "(p. 55). We assume that in this case we will reflect on the urban landscape destabilization and excessive reigning in "expressive face," the nightclub in which it conducts most of the action, joining the internal entropy which we referred above.
Clara In Electronics literary reorganization of the city is deeper, and keep a direct parallel with the psyche of the characters. Guillermo Aguirre Madrid imagines as an archipelago, an idea is not new ("geography of Madrid is a cosmogony, a galaxy of several solar systems have in common is their synchronous movement and unidirectional. Madrid is not enlarged, just open new compartments. [...] Barcelona is an island. Madrid an archipelago "VLM, Circular, 2003), although it is true that no one has taken to its logical conclusion so as Aguirre. In his novel the capital's neighborhoods are islands, beaches or along the avenues, streets channels motor bikes and perhaps at any time the purpose is to reflect what is separation and isolation of any city organization in general and Madrid in particular: "the sun stirs, gets the wood of the buildings that fall sporadically or burn by spontaneous combustion. Their capitals, igneous, become emblems of legend. Changed again posters, advertise new shows, new colors, elections, local rename again on Thursday one another on Friday, Saturday another: change of islands. The city extends well on its archipelago "(p. 38). As noted earlier, this relocation is parallel to the long-suffering by the characters. While living together for much of the novel, Clara and his roommates seem separated by insurmountable walls that make islands with respect to each other. The protagonist's emotional autism and Jonah absolute solitary confinement, the homodiegetic narrator of the novel, is a perfect transcript of the insular and dumb condition of psychologies and emotional stakes. Quite the opposite of Exhumation , where is the search for affection between Amanda and Djuna that moves all the springs narrative of the plot, and actually moving the sociopathic curious device, machine, solipsistic and longing for affection Djuna . Exhumation is a stranger intersection Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar Wai and Revenge of the zombies (1943) by Steve Sekely.
metaliterature
"Do not you think it would be time to recover the story in contemporary English fiction, instead of semiotics and much much host?" [3] ( Exhumation , p. 49).
"What happens when a component goes later in the narrative action? What, when salt is poured on the plate at the wrong time when, within the harmony of the subject, includes nearly the Finally, a new element in flight or counterpoint? I feel that the reader, the diner, the listener will wonder set architecture, feel the risk that everything is broken (...) or, on the contrary, history is strengthened "(C Electronics lara p. 118).
electronic music the two novels in the presence of electronic music is important. In Exhumation is defined as a "hymn psychotic" (p. 35), something not addressed to thrill but to move: "I remember when you were little you thought electronic music created by the devil. I was afraid. Now it all comes back to rumble. As a Mills Bomb arsenal on the ground "(p. 40). The group or mass of the dancers executed their choreography, directed by dj and governed by the strangeness of the beholder from the outside without being integrated into the ritual: "make strange movements with his arms all at the same time, with expression as slowly and as if it were a ritual: a new dance terrible and haunted. The music sounds fuzzy geometric emerge (Exhumation , p. 44). That is, should be allowed to be in part one to be part of the trance, it is no coincidence that the owner of the club say ruthlessly: "Here we are not human, we want drum machines." (Exhumation , p. 38), clarifying that the end is desindividualizante and depersonalized, mechanical. Exhumation back into raw governing vision or theoretical, sociological, on the narrative: they describe the phenomena, but are not embody. The characters are not just drum machines, machines are also text. This is not a demerit, but a rhetorical choice that the reader should keep in mind.
While electronics Exhumation is external to the narrative, as the structural epilepsy must be sought, as we shall see, not only in music but also narrative models in Electronics Clara is internal, associated stylistically it from the book's title. A thinking invites not only the explicit wording of Stockhausen with which the novel opens, but some telltale central paragraph: "as the different sounds come into the session, as do the basic narrative elements of fiction that Just as people leave and return as a needle into the fabric of life "( Electronics Clara, p. 149). The words are the electronic sound (the computer, the printer to put on the page), and "the silence that space between percussion and hit another, "(p. 54). Again the words as noise on the page, the silence as white space, Mallarmean, in a more modern survival today. But all is not metaliterature also describes the rites of electronic music in a curiously late modern, cheeky postmodernism against Miguel and Rodriguez, "there was something called rush. The music suddenly rose, were added rhythms and added bases, the elements of the electronic session (recorded sounds, added frills, samplers, repetitions, percussion hits) sounded together, the orchestra total at the same moment "(p. 101). This description of Aguirre is closer to, say, the delicate and accurate representation of music by Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain (1924) that the reconstruction of techno experience in the early years of 21. Syncopated prose Miguel and Rodriguez is somewhat closer to the object described but in any case, are stylistic choices and every one, I imagine, may find its readers. However, although neither has the geometric style narratives and arithmetically growing dance music, Clara Electronics does take it at least the elements outlined by layers or strata, the consideration of the text as a sonic fabric where the elements are mixed and give way (to what helps the fragmentation of the text), so that the minimum unit of text would not be lexia, but the chord: the moment when several notes (narrative elements) sound at the same time at a particular point of the text.
Exhumation References
Built as a social generational novel strategies, Exhumation includes several references to contemporary American fiction, particularly David Foster Wallace, the author confessed passion: the image "animal expressive" (P. 64) clearly comes from the story "Critter expressionless" Wallace in his wonderful book of stories She weird hair, which has influenced authors also very much in Rodriguez and Miguel and Javier Calvo. There are also references to other narrator admired as much for Miguel Rodriguez, Patricio Pron, whose remarkable novel The early spring is engaged an obvious tribute: "He looked across at a German university professor ignored great time" (p. 45). Insistence
Electronics Clara
Despite its downfalls, Clara Electronics is a novel is read with interest. The author demonstrates an early mastery of the subtle, high art of the novel, and hides through the key psychological suggestions of the figure of Clara, related to the topic of doppleganger. Hesitation corny, as we shall see, some precipitation and the use of stereotypes when building characters should not obscure the fact that there is narrative drive in the novel, and certainly high points as the rotunda page 71 encourage us to think that there a talented storyteller maturity and crouched waiting time, other fundamental requirements of any work of fiction (with very few exceptions). Conclusion
Noting that there are two novels about excess, in both books come when errors appear overly exuberant. Not too much talk here about the life of the characters, but imbalances of another sort: pedants in Exhumation excesses of pure free Anarres - "nothing to do with the apprehension of the Other in Levinas, think", p. 29 -; rhetorical excesses Electronics Clara - "I heard the metal mobile sonar Violeta bells (bells dream)", p. 108 -, or excesses low referential humor in both (a photographer named Diana Bush, by Diane Arbus, in Exhumation , a newspaper called Arganzuela Zeitung in Electronics Clara). They are natural errors in first novels by very young (no more than 26 years), where the effort to demonstrate craft and sometimes kills power clean style or the needs of the plot. However, despite the clichés, dead zones and excess errors of his novels, this is the first and original works of three authors to track should be on, since in these narratives peek lines force that can give good results in the future.
The Catalan writer Jo Alexander with only 19 published a novel called Strange creatures (Grijalbo Mondadori, 1998). I do not remember much about the novel, to be fair: I found a work too hasty, and that she said when he published his second book, thirteen years later, he was full of errors. However, Strange Creatures had some sociological values, say that since the early novels of Bret Easton Ellis, very well read some of his time environments. In the case of Alexander the atmosphere was that of nightclubs, describing exactly how the DJ or DJs became a kind of guru of the night and the driver of the other, to guide the movement of the huddled masses for fun in the rhythm of it . A kind of musical Petronio was to fashion a song, or alter or create a new sample pieces of others. The dj presented as a choreographer, as pastor of mass dance frantically, but without leaving the same space: the square meter of space for dancing. The club as a meeting place, with its rites of incorporation, and stay out: "I was already forty-odd blocks, and once inside, saw how people looked at me rather badly, as in other clubs in Madrid, my eyes filled her with respect "(Miqui Otero, Music channels; Alpha Decay, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010, p. 233 .) The pubs and nightclubs
as locations in which, as noted earlier in another novel Pedro Maestre sociological Killing dinosaurs with slingshots (Destination, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1996), simultaneously share their leisure time people from two and up three different generations, but not obvious demarcations. the nightclub scene in Open Your Eyes Amenabar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujngooxc2x4
Life daytime, nightlife
This year there have been two short novels focused or localized in a similar environment, different not only Strange creatures but also very different from each other, despite being young its three authors: Electronics Clara (Language of Cloth, Madrid, 2010), Guillermo Aguirre, and Exhumation (Alpha Decay , Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010), written by the so far only literary critic Antonio J. Rodriguez and poet Miguel Luna. In both you can attend to the "Wars between Hades and Eros. Among the Living Dead by the Music Club and the militia defending the old values \u200b\u200bof Humanism "(Exhumation , p. 7), because it sees a tension between the vampire enjoy the night life, in novels characterized by debauchery and drug use to avoid reality, and the day world and humanist literature as a way to recreate reality, or to delve into it. Both works are in a dialectical tension between time and hobby, aesthetic enjoyment and the enjoyment body, depth and surface, "Darling, can not remain deep without a surface" (Exhumation , p. 15); "surface to surface is that something the cover: it is now back (Clara Electronics, p. 64). I imagine that the dispute is identical to that faced by the authors, who reconciled his humanistic side of the still young age of spinning, while gaining speed and escape. In any case, this contradiction visible on the characters of both novels is not very different from modern man suffers, at least if we consider the definition of Daniel Bell productive individual, "the commercial corporation needs a hard working individual, pursue a career, accept delayed gratification-that is, in the sense more crude, an organization man. And yet, in its products and in advertising, the corporation promotes pleasure, instant enjoyment, relaxation and letting go. One must be straight during the day and night thrombus " [1] . In the same sense Bell, Lipovetsky writes: "the hyper-hyper appears accompanied by a pronounced, legislator himself, sometimes cautious and calculating, sometimes messy, unbalanced and chaotic " [2] . Combining these theoretical appointments with the content of the novels, which we would do in that they both reflect on the economic condition of the characters and their relationship to leisure (in Electronics Clara is sometimes appeals to nature "junk" in the employment contracts of the players and the Exhumation myth of "job satisfaction", p. 14), we can infer that the clubs would also be the place where social status flaunts reached (the reserved VIP, which is referred to in Exhumation), or where it is neutralized aggression generated by non-fulfillment through the trance dance and lysergic evasion. Yes, there are also people who going to clubs to have fun in their leisure time, of course, but here we talk about real life but its concrete recreation of two novels, and both can be seen that the diurnal occlusion in pure entropy, as well as an insistent tendency of characters to rush the night, carpe noctem enjoy (Aurora Luque dixit) to the end ( households Clara Electronics are "aftercasas") and so I dare say that has some sociological excess in the two novels, and calls for a total mode hopelessness or absolute emptiness of the characters who are trying to fill, unsuccessfully, by the experience of love.
Three other common elements with the two novels: Madrid as a narrative, metaliterature and electronic music.
Madrid
The two novels are moving operations out over Madrid as a narrative. Antonio J. Rodriguez, one of the authors of Exhumation , dedicated in a recent issue of Chimera an article to the narrative visions of the English capital, an article which unfortunately I have to hand at the time of writing. Exhumation In the process of filing Madrid aims to produce estrangement distinguishing between one part of Madrid, the center, and others. In any case, almost post-apocalyptic vision "on both sides of the highway, the soil viscous tectonic earthquakes. Caravans, trucks, aircraft Trojan crowd at the gates of Madrizentro, immobilized for hours, reluctant to leave the storm from the bunker "(p. 55). We assume that in this case we will reflect on the urban landscape destabilization and excessive reigning in "expressive face," the nightclub in which it conducts most of the action, joining the internal entropy which we referred above.
Clara In Electronics literary reorganization of the city is deeper, and keep a direct parallel with the psyche of the characters. Guillermo Aguirre Madrid imagines as an archipelago, an idea is not new ("geography of Madrid is a cosmogony, a galaxy of several solar systems have in common is their synchronous movement and unidirectional. Madrid is not enlarged, just open new compartments. [...] Barcelona is an island. Madrid an archipelago "VLM, Circular, 2003), although it is true that no one has taken to its logical conclusion so as Aguirre. In his novel the capital's neighborhoods are islands, beaches or along the avenues, streets channels motor bikes and perhaps at any time the purpose is to reflect what is separation and isolation of any city organization in general and Madrid in particular: "the sun stirs, gets the wood of the buildings that fall sporadically or burn by spontaneous combustion. Their capitals, igneous, become emblems of legend. Changed again posters, advertise new shows, new colors, elections, local rename again on Thursday one another on Friday, Saturday another: change of islands. The city extends well on its archipelago "(p. 38). As noted earlier, this relocation is parallel to the long-suffering by the characters. While living together for much of the novel, Clara and his roommates seem separated by insurmountable walls that make islands with respect to each other. The protagonist's emotional autism and Jonah absolute solitary confinement, the homodiegetic narrator of the novel, is a perfect transcript of the insular and dumb condition of psychologies and emotional stakes. Quite the opposite of Exhumation , where is the search for affection between Amanda and Djuna that moves all the springs narrative of the plot, and actually moving the sociopathic curious device, machine, solipsistic and longing for affection Djuna . Exhumation is a stranger intersection Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar Wai and Revenge of the zombies (1943) by Steve Sekely.
metaliterature
"Do not you think it would be time to recover the story in contemporary English fiction, instead of semiotics and much much host?" [3] ( Exhumation , p. 49).
"What happens when a component goes later in the narrative action? What, when salt is poured on the plate at the wrong time when, within the harmony of the subject, includes nearly the Finally, a new element in flight or counterpoint? I feel that the reader, the diner, the listener will wonder set architecture, feel the risk that everything is broken (...) or, on the contrary, history is strengthened "(C Electronics lara p. 118).
electronic music the two novels in the presence of electronic music is important. In Exhumation is defined as a "hymn psychotic" (p. 35), something not addressed to thrill but to move: "I remember when you were little you thought electronic music created by the devil. I was afraid. Now it all comes back to rumble. As a Mills Bomb arsenal on the ground "(p. 40). The group or mass of the dancers executed their choreography, directed by dj and governed by the strangeness of the beholder from the outside without being integrated into the ritual: "make strange movements with his arms all at the same time, with expression as slowly and as if it were a ritual: a new dance terrible and haunted. The music sounds fuzzy geometric emerge (Exhumation , p. 44). That is, should be allowed to be in part one to be part of the trance, it is no coincidence that the owner of the club say ruthlessly: "Here we are not human, we want drum machines." (Exhumation , p. 38), clarifying that the end is desindividualizante and depersonalized, mechanical. Exhumation back into raw governing vision or theoretical, sociological, on the narrative: they describe the phenomena, but are not embody. The characters are not just drum machines, machines are also text. This is not a demerit, but a rhetorical choice that the reader should keep in mind.
While electronics Exhumation is external to the narrative, as the structural epilepsy must be sought, as we shall see, not only in music but also narrative models in Electronics Clara is internal, associated stylistically it from the book's title. A thinking invites not only the explicit wording of Stockhausen with which the novel opens, but some telltale central paragraph: "as the different sounds come into the session, as do the basic narrative elements of fiction that Just as people leave and return as a needle into the fabric of life "( Electronics Clara, p. 149). The words are the electronic sound (the computer, the printer to put on the page), and "the silence that space between percussion and hit another, "(p. 54). Again the words as noise on the page, the silence as white space, Mallarmean, in a more modern survival today. But all is not metaliterature also describes the rites of electronic music in a curiously late modern, cheeky postmodernism against Miguel and Rodriguez, "there was something called rush. The music suddenly rose, were added rhythms and added bases, the elements of the electronic session (recorded sounds, added frills, samplers, repetitions, percussion hits) sounded together, the orchestra total at the same moment "(p. 101). This description of Aguirre is closer to, say, the delicate and accurate representation of music by Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain (1924) that the reconstruction of techno experience in the early years of 21. Syncopated prose Miguel and Rodriguez is somewhat closer to the object described but in any case, are stylistic choices and every one, I imagine, may find its readers. However, although neither has the geometric style narratives and arithmetically growing dance music, Clara Electronics does take it at least the elements outlined by layers or strata, the consideration of the text as a sonic fabric where the elements are mixed and give way (to what helps the fragmentation of the text), so that the minimum unit of text would not be lexia, but the chord: the moment when several notes (narrative elements) sound at the same time at a particular point of the text.
Exhumation References
Built as a social generational novel strategies, Exhumation includes several references to contemporary American fiction, particularly David Foster Wallace, the author confessed passion: the image "animal expressive" (P. 64) clearly comes from the story "Critter expressionless" Wallace in his wonderful book of stories She weird hair, which has influenced authors also very much in Rodriguez and Miguel and Javier Calvo. There are also references to other narrator admired as much for Miguel Rodriguez, Patricio Pron, whose remarkable novel The early spring is engaged an obvious tribute: "He looked across at a German university professor ignored great time" (p. 45). Insistence
Electronics Clara
Despite its downfalls, Clara Electronics is a novel is read with interest. The author demonstrates an early mastery of the subtle, high art of the novel, and hides through the key psychological suggestions of the figure of Clara, related to the topic of doppleganger. Hesitation corny, as we shall see, some precipitation and the use of stereotypes when building characters should not obscure the fact that there is narrative drive in the novel, and certainly high points as the rotunda page 71 encourage us to think that there a talented storyteller maturity and crouched waiting time, other fundamental requirements of any work of fiction (with very few exceptions). Conclusion
Noting that there are two novels about excess, in both books come when errors appear overly exuberant. Not too much talk here about the life of the characters, but imbalances of another sort: pedants in Exhumation excesses of pure free Anarres - "nothing to do with the apprehension of the Other in Levinas, think", p. 29 -; rhetorical excesses Electronics Clara - "I heard the metal mobile sonar Violeta bells (bells dream)", p. 108 -, or excesses low referential humor in both (a photographer named Diana Bush, by Diane Arbus, in Exhumation , a newspaper called Arganzuela Zeitung in Electronics Clara). They are natural errors in first novels by very young (no more than 26 years), where the effort to demonstrate craft and sometimes kills power clean style or the needs of the plot. However, despite the clichés, dead zones and excess errors of his novels, this is the first and original works of three authors to track should be on, since in these narratives peek lines force that can give good results in the future.
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Notes:
[1] Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Basic Books, NY 1976, pp. 71-72, quoted in Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of modernity, Tecnos, Madrid, 1991, p. 18.
[2] G. Lipovetsky, "Time versus time or hypermodern society," in Gilles Lipovetsky and Sebastien Charles, hypermodern times, Anagram, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2006, p. 58.
[3] Of course, this is an ironic statement of the authors, because there are few current novels as Exhumation where the theory has submerged almost entirely to the story.
[1] Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Basic Books, NY 1976, pp. 71-72, quoted in Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of modernity, Tecnos, Madrid, 1991, p. 18.
[2] G. Lipovetsky, "Time versus time or hypermodern society," in Gilles Lipovetsky and Sebastien Charles, hypermodern times, Anagram, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2006, p. 58.
[3] Of course, this is an ironic statement of the authors, because there are few current novels as Exhumation where the theory has submerged almost entirely to the story.
[Relationship with the authors reviewed, with Guillermo Aguirre, None; with Antonio J. Rodriguez and Miguel Luna, cordial. Relationship with publishers of books reviewed: none]
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