Original language: English Year: 1959
Rating: Recommended
When the old Eloy red leaf appears in the booklet of smoking, it takes just retired as a warning: time is running out as well as cigarette paper.
The metaphor of red leaf vertebra this great little story written by the late Miguel Delibes. Why say small? Because Delibes has the wonderful ability to portray characters thoroughly simple, those who you know in their day to day and that is precisely why catalogarÃa not as literary material. " Why I say large? Because one just has to pass a cotton to this thin layer of dull daily life to deepen the major issues raised by the writer Valladolid: loneliness, aging, vertigo at the proximity of his death, the joy of living ...
The character of the old Eloy-not my thing: the narrator always refers to the protagonist as "the old Eloy" - is opposed to the character of Dirk, his young servant. Based on the characters, there are three parts in the narrative: first, find life and the tangled memories the old, on the other, dreams and thoughts of the girl, and finally, the special relationship is forged between them and end up narrowing due to certain events, by sensed no less dramatic, which become the end of the novel.
While the narrative may be repetitive, this is not a blunder by the author but rather the opposite: the old Eloy returns continually to the same experiences, along with his friend recovers Isaiah the same memories and forget them systematically details of everyday life, also attempts, unsuccessfully, to communicate with those around him through the haze that obscures the ideas. The reader is moved before the portrait of the fears and obsessions of a man who has left the red sheet in the booklet on smoking and knows that he also has few leaves.
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