Year: 1970
Rating: is well
do not know if this can be categorized as another of my "heresies " because Juan Marse is generally considered by critics as one of the most relevant contemporary English novelists and influential (Cervantes Prize in 2008, what more can you say) and yet the two books I read yours, Latest Afternoons with and this, I have not convinced. Of course I recognize narrative and stylistic merit, but their stories are not just interested in me or convince.
This, The dark history of prima Montse , is a novel told in two time levels: the present, in which the narrator, Paco, is found again with his uncles and cousins \u200b\u200b(and rolled his cousin Nuria, by the way), and the past, which takes the "raw dark history of Montserrat." And the "dark story" is that such a premium, Monte Clark, the daughter of a bourgeois family profundamenta Catalan and religious, is involved (hard to tell to what extent) with an inmate and a proletarian atheist, causing the predictable scandal in his family well . And the narrator, who is a more badass than the rest, as a character is isolated between two worlds, connecting them.
As I said above, clearly recognize the benefits of the book as a narrative technique is superbly constructed, with the constant game between past and present, and the way a contrast Paco and Nuria are correcting their memories and reminded me of Faulkner and his Absalom, Absalom (one of my favorite novels). But I could not identify with any of the characters, nor the bourgeois stretched (overly caricatured in general), or the narrator, or the inmate, or the cousin Monty, whose portrait is probably the most superficial of all; and the story soon ceased to interest me, just see the "dark story" was not really so dark. In terms of style, I think a double-edged sword: it is brilliant at times, poetic, a work of art itself, but at the same time that aestheticism static hinders the development of history, and there are cases where you get to get lost among so much flourish.
In short: It's OK, but does not become part of my head writers. That is, if I had to do so may give a lecture on the technical expertise of Mars and its importance as a writer in the post-Franco Spain, but as a reader, not tell anyone: "You have to read to Mars, it's great."
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