- Review: Carolina Marquez Rojas
( http://resenyasliterarias.blogspot.com/2011/02/encanto-y-desencanto-de-un-hombre -sin.html )
This is a story told by a man without grace, no charm, no aspirations and smooth. A man tied to a monotonous life, without incentives, no hobbies without social relations, with a mediocre job and a mother who treats him like an eternal teenager. It's an easy life, marked by the absence of a father she never met and also sentenced to a gray future and monotonous. But life always has some surprises in store.
This story is one of the most realistic, predictable, pessimistic, yet most amazing I've read in a while. I did so at a stretch, because while the plot is not original in the sense that no traces of any part fiction and the plot is very recognizable, prose and dialogue grabs you from the front lines without giving you a few seconds truce. The story is common, even vulgar, a story we all know it is well known: the story of a man gray, dull, graceless, who has lived all his life glued to the side of a bitter mother who absorbent drowning and does not allow live your life because it has not known any different than living. Until this man knows the most beautiful girl dancing and it fixed it. Andrés Portillo
convinces with a conventional story and as I said predictable, sprinkled with moments of humor that give you a break, and makes it so that you can not stop reading until the end, in the belief or hope that the last moment, history turns around 360 degrees and you know or intuit what will happen is not achieved. But the story maintains its logic to the end and that is appreciated, otherwise it would not have been credible. With a nod to the title of the work, the charm of it is that little by little we leads to disenchantment, but not without bitter taste, quite the opposite. Life is capable of putting everyone in their place, but you always learn a lesson. What is surprising is how to tell the story, full of contradictory emotions that are superimposed over each other and extreme changes in the behavior of the characters: the line that differentiates the hatred of love is indeed very thin, almost imperceptible. Equally surprising events that are shaping the story and deftly pinpoints Portillo, some unexpected, leading to the final outcome.
This story is very real, believable and well told. After some very uninteresting and premises trite: the story of an older man attracted to a Lolita that will lead to disaster, Andrés Portillo has been able to captivate and convince with his first novel.
And that, what they do very little.
This story is one of the most realistic, predictable, pessimistic, yet most amazing I've read in a while. I did so at a stretch, because while the plot is not original in the sense that no traces of any part fiction and the plot is very recognizable, prose and dialogue grabs you from the front lines without giving you a few seconds truce. The story is common, even vulgar, a story we all know it is well known: the story of a man gray, dull, graceless, who has lived all his life glued to the side of a bitter mother who absorbent drowning and does not allow live your life because it has not known any different than living. Until this man knows the most beautiful girl dancing and it fixed it. Andrés Portillo
convinces with a conventional story and as I said predictable, sprinkled with moments of humor that give you a break, and makes it so that you can not stop reading until the end, in the belief or hope that the last moment, history turns around 360 degrees and you know or intuit what will happen is not achieved. But the story maintains its logic to the end and that is appreciated, otherwise it would not have been credible. With a nod to the title of the work, the charm of it is that little by little we leads to disenchantment, but not without bitter taste, quite the opposite. Life is capable of putting everyone in their place, but you always learn a lesson. What is surprising is how to tell the story, full of contradictory emotions that are superimposed over each other and extreme changes in the behavior of the characters: the line that differentiates the hatred of love is indeed very thin, almost imperceptible. Equally surprising events that are shaping the story and deftly pinpoints Portillo, some unexpected, leading to the final outcome.
This story is very real, believable and well told. After some very uninteresting and premises trite: the story of an older man attracted to a Lolita that will lead to disaster, Andrés Portillo has been able to captivate and convince with his first novel.
And that, what they do very little.
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