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The excellent book of short stories The King Is Always Above His People Daniel Alarcón, translated and published this Alfaguara year, can serve as the guideline for what happened in 2010, for its peculiar internal variety. It may even be useful to refer to what happened in areas not entirely literary. An example: on page 165 we read "In what year was U.S. screwed?" Obvious homage to Mario Vargas Llosa, who has nobelizado been this year. The author of Conversation in the Cathedral is still a long shadow for young Peruvian writers, and even a Peruvian who writes in English and that their early moved to the United States as Alarcón not appear to be entirely unrelated to its influence, as can be compared here . And another example extraliterary more: that the last two sentences of the book are "And of course, no one knows nothing, Mr. President. These are state secrets "(p. 167), after of what has happened this month, it seems an admirable exercise of foreknowledge and derision de Alarcón. In any case, the secrets of state and described the goings-on of power throughout the book may be a link with Omega Point (Scribner, 2010) by Don DeLillo, the book this year that I liked, and which I did a long review in my blog.
Alarcón's stories are different, but have some common themes and obsessions, are these attractors or nodes which launched bridges to other texts I've read this year, although not all were published in 2010. Speaking of bridges, "The Bridge" is one of the best accounts of King is always above the village and is also one of the best I have read in the recently. Alternating spaces and temporalities, diving into the depths family while on the problems of large Latin American cities, is a story halfway between English and American traditions, something that critics have already prominent in the work of the Peruvian-American. This mixture of cultures social structural causes can be a relationship between this volume of short stories and poetry anthology Latino cursed, cursed sudacas , published by Editions pool of Lucretia (Mexico , 2009), with selection and foreword by Monica de la Torre and Cristián Gómez B. It is no accident that a question autologous become latent in Alarcón's book, written in English but full of references to the culture of Peru and their languages, "which can mean the concept of 'mother tongue' (...) In this first decade of the twenty-first century "(p. 10). The question is answered with no little vigor in the poems included in the anthology, ranging from panlengua Rodrigo Toscano (Jeu inventin lingascem mascarem / teu Sep correzcur solascment / meu importamen madrizcem Teupa correzciremp solascmentarim ", p. 235, may be here an interview where Toscano explains his poetic and political reasons for the creation of Newspeak ) or Gabriela Jauregui ("Encore: one two three tangled appreciateit tango trois moi September angled handle off twice, thrice-Aid Relief and The Immortal, three sad tigers paddle and paddle and rowing is a branch ", p. 124), whose games remind us crosslinguistic Cabrera Infante, the alternate language (poets such as the Mexican Jose Molina, who write poems in English and English), to whom problems arise in their bilingualism and new intermediate forms between English and English, as Spanglish or code switching ("Is not that code switching way too smart to call?" Román Luján, p. 159; "talk as bilingual / worshiping a bull "Jaime Rodríguez Matos, p. 217). This anthology is not just useful to know the status of some Latin poetry in the United States, but also to see how you are English in different places, mixing with other languages \u200b\u200band creatively mutating.
Alarcón Returning to the book, already stressed about it than most of his stories featuring characters who resist the power or who refuse to follow the path marked by his environment, his family, his age or circumstances. In that sense I was reminded The light is older than the love (Seix Barral, 2010), Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, which for me has been one of the most important books of the year . Also in the unclassifiable book Menéndez Salmon are three characters, three painters, such as opposing the dictatorship of label or brand of dictatorship. Speaking of dictatorship, is also the subject of Three white coffins (Anagram, 2010), Antonio Ungar, an excellent novel set, as Alarcón's narrative, in a Latin American country indefinitely, although Ungar at least has a name: Miranda . Alarcón loose some accounts have reminded me of other books: "The vibrator has brought me to mind the excellent book of short stories by Roberto Valencia, Smile at the camera (Language of Cloth, 2010 ), set in the world of porn, "Thousands" for its strange logic, almost fancy, reminded me of the Argentine novel Rodrigo Fresán, The sky background (Mondadori, 2009), which I read earlier this year and also seemed like a wonderful insight between the fantastic and realistic, possible and impossible. The experimental strain of the story "The court" de Alarcón, written in one sentence, I found it reminiscent of the writing on the run and ritornellos continuous Ghosts of masseuse (Eterna Cadence, 2009), Mario Bellatin. The way things are said are not more important than those who do not say ("I wish he could read my mind", p. 131) in King is always above the village I reminded the latent value of the things to say, as well as the importance of language in the construction of our social relationships, which are two of the conductors of Sight (Anagram, 2010), the short novel and valuable J.A. González Sainz, who recovered in this work and present some issues essential in earlier works. The star of "The Idiot President", an actor who squandered his talent first little theater and then television, did get my memory the terrible character of the novel Dead ( Mondadori, 2010), Jorge Carrión, one of the most provocative and compelling novels of the year. The child may try to survive as the "Republic and Grau", making a blind guide of fighting corrupt and hostile environment of poverty, brought me to mind the children devastated banlieu Paris that aims to understand in Diego Doncel Women say good-bye (DVD, 2010), and committed his last novel. And finally, Part of "The Bridge" on the phone interpreters passages in the novel tends glocal Douglas Coupland Generation A (Scribner 2009) which among four characters describes one very successful working as teleoperator telephone a British company relocated to India.
Offshore, or located in various cultures, open and multiple Alarcón's book made me look like a volume of stories, with some masterpieces and an interesting read noise background of our time. Like everything else mentioned, is the best, and it is not enough, that leaves 2010.
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(Critical Ratio with Alarcon and Alfaguara: none. With the editors of Latino cursed, cursed sudacas , no. Salmon With Ricardo Menéndez I have a good relationship, and Seix Barral edited my last book. With Roberto Valencia and Language of Cloth, no. Rodrigo Fresán I have cordial relationship, none with Mondadori. With a cross Bellatin email with with Cadence Eternal I have no relationship . With cordial González Sainz I have none with Anagram. Jorge Carrion, good value, its editorial I have already spoken. Diego Doncel to maintain good relationship and DVD also published my first book of short stories in 2006. In Coupland, and DeLillo Scribner, unfortunately, I have no treatment).
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