Review: JESUS \u200b\u200bMARIA SILVA (Enbuscadeotrasitacas.blogspot.com )
Andrés Portillo presents a novel in which the central character is that man without grace, who lives in the disappointment most of the time, who one day finds a certain charm for a while, and then turns to disappointment having lost several things on track. This could be the summary of the novel. Andres Camilo Portillo characterizes us as a man introverted and lonely, timid. Someone who does not like life too much, but neither dislikes, and so carried away walking, doing nothing to change it. Attached to the figure of his mother until the end, their teachings are repeated in a compulsive way it bombards the growing realization that departs from them.
The most important thing in life is that nobody can point the finger to be a gulf. I am a decent woman, and you have to be a decent man that everyone respect you. (P., 37)
There is a certain parallel with the Oedipus complex, falls in love with the mother, but next to it is stability, order, morality, affection, comfort you need in your life. Without it, you feel lost, helpless, unprotected.
There are several twists in the novel, although it is a linear story in the flashback in which it develops. One is when the life of Camilo appears Paula, the woman who will lead you through several paths never traveled, drags him to desire and doubt. Andrés Portillo describes us very well the feelings that go beyond this simple character, full of fear, yet we're sticking in a saving. Anyone could be Camilo. He is so easy that we can not love him, to rescue him. New twist
successful is the fact that develops fulminant around the mother figure, and spinning with the recommendations it made him about his relationship with Paula. The latest twist
us to the end of the novel. Is the change of personality Paula. We bare the character of a brutal, no tricks. The false and cruel purpose initial start charging realism while everything falls apart irrevocably. Again tape-consciousness acts on the head of Camilo, echo that expands, we assume, for the rest of his life.
The author uses language that is perfect to give voice to the life of this character that looks like a flat line in a defibrillator. Use grammatically very careful prose, fusing lyrical resources at various points to describe images by creating poetic spaces.
"My mother looked like a glacier, the words left his mouth like ice crystals. He kept his eyes lost in the light, red, had not yet deigned to look me in the face. (P., 59)
also reveals highly erotic images, both heterosexual and lesbian, very well-made, slow, detailed, voyeurs. Sex, passion and love.
Nothing simpler than the plot of this story that could happen to anyone, nothing more difficult to solve without resorting to soap-opera dramas. Andrés Portillo and immerses you get it from start to finish in the enchantment and disenchantment that man without grace. JESUS \u200b\u200bMARIA SILVA
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