Martin Amis: The Book of Rachel 
Original title: The Rachel Papers Original language: English Year: 1973 Rating: Okay is not always a good idea to embark on the debut
author a high quality that it has acquired over time. Although prejudice aside, the relationship between the early and mature work varies greatly from one another. Sometimes, a few, the author early in his career produced his great magnum opus, once said everything I wanted to say and books that happen that are just mere followers.
The Rachel book is somewhere in between. We are indeed learning to a novel also recounts an episode youth initiation. But it would still be well written, well constructed, with believable characters and a coherent plot that keeps the interest until the end. It will not be the best of the author but is well above many geniuses who then are not so obvious.
is a story of love / heartbreak and an acceptable inquiry into various types of human relationships told with a steady, which implies a very clear vision of how the characters evolve avoiding irregularities and imbalances. No missing however, the dose of surprise essential to reading it enjoyable to the reader. However, in this case, it is easy to fall into the trap and confuse the author and protagonist, and although the inclusion of autobiographical elements is clear, Amis manages to build a compelling personality. Undisguised sympathy that inspires the main character, is able to show no mercy its dark spots, but are justified by the character in most of its pages are brought out strongly at the end.
Charles, the teenager who thinks she supposedly mundane back around the base of much sarcasm, sharp observations and enough intellectual effort, belongs to a literary type which was maintained for a long time, which continued in force by then but, for some time, eventually becoming history. In their eyes, we know a Rachel idealized, which does not know much and although she constantly thinks and writes to quench his obsession, it will take many pages until we know. Doubts about the identity of Rachel and the fate of the relationship between both maintain the intrigue and occupy much of the plot. The fact that she has a boyfriend and this is a mature and socially situated individual seems to put you at a distinct disadvantage, which can clearly perceive is that this is a relationship with an expiration date, if you start, to be the girl who terminated. When later gives a twist to the plot, our intuition fades. Meanwhile, other relationships - for couples, parent-child or sibling - they develop at their own pace with its ups and downs, its small disasters, awards and pantomimes.
expecting a final Amis more uncertain but not limited to first-cut at any point under the guise of open-ended, on the contrary, discovering the great conceit of Charles and fraud that support small and the true personality of your brother, and it really does close with ease and consistency. Also
Martin Amis: London Fields
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The second plane .
I will not speak of an electrical installation or industrial. But an art installation, a structure derived from the sculpture, which occupies a space, the floor, ceiling or walls in a gallery, and even in open fields. If you want to make one, you can use what you like, wire, wax, wood, cans, buttons, even lights and sounds, give it any form whether by example of some animal, (figurative) or you can do something crazy with forms crazy and histrionic (abstract). An installation usually lasts only for exhibition is therefore unique and unrepeatable. Thus, in the CBA (Centro Boliviano Americano) Cochabamaba 19:00 hrs, 25 March and a little later Yamil Escaffi surprises us with his art installation "Evening." "I'm always late," jokes the young artist. Family, friends, general public artists attended, representing the culture sector CBA Vilma Tapia Poet, presented the work of the novice artist. We appreciate then, a tortugota, green shell, black head above the bust with four arms, no head. Two arms praying with a fish net fishing and the other two words, as "treasure", "days", and more. As a boat as it feeds to its sinking. This is a weaver Pushkana deity, "who prays for their vulnerability to that get away with it, "says Jamil. The materials in this book are diverse, from cardboard, textiles, plastic bottles etc. (A good way to recycle). In Pushkana networks not only eats fish, but substantive. Bonito. Yamil In this made me think that the Pushkana is the man who eats little fish than words. Substantive eat to give them a value, a sense, on the way to death or shipwreck, something we do not know. We all behave well and asked questions, then this installation is the culmination of a poem by the author. Master quoting Vilma Valcarcel, agrees that contemporary art does not tend to convey a message, but rather is subject to subjective interpretation of consciousness individual. The author read a poem, for his mood, tempo and intensity of voice, no doubt it is a work of art. The high imagination put into the facility, suggests that creativity exists then takes us out of the harsh daily reality of just being flesh and blood. We dream, is embodied in art, he lived with magic between us through this young artist. Thanks Yamil! This work will be on display throughout the month of April. 
