“Imagina la noche más fría de la historia. La nieve cae sobre la ciudad de Edimburgo. En lo alto de una colina nace el pequeño Jack, pero su corazón está dañado. Y por eso necesitará reemplazarlo por un reloj de madera, un corazón artificial del que dependerá su vida. Acompañemos a Jack en su aventura quixotic from the cold streets of Scotland to a beaming Andalusian city looking for love. But beware! Jack must follow rules for survival:
One: DO NOT TOUCH THE NEEDLES.
Two: DOMINA your anger.
Three: NEVER not fall in love.
THE MECHANICAL HEART OF IT DEPENDS
us wish good luck to Jack, and remember that, as in this tale for big kids, all we have ever experienced by our fickle hearts. "
I really wanted to read this book, written by Frenchman Mathias Malzieu, long time. The synopsis, which I wrote earlier, and the cover of the book, were enough for this story I called our attention.
's protagonist The mechanical heart is Jack, a boy who leaves his teenage mother still just a newborn. A doctor with methods healer, who served as midwife at the birth, which takes care of the child. Jack is a baby with a cold heart and defective and the doctor-healer, Madeleine decides to use an old clock to develop a mechanical system to improve his damaged heart. After the successful operation, the protagonist has a heart-clock that works pretty well, although is much more fragile than the average. Jack
must channel the anxiety, happiness, sadness and love through the delicate mechanics of his heart. Madeleine's safe world and his closest friends, going to the faltering reality of Platonic love and then to the cruel world of hatred, ridicule and revenge that he discovers in his school. Uncontrollable passion for a small half Blinkin singer called Miss Acacia, makes travel from Edinburgh to Andalusia in the company of a colorful character: Georges Méliès, one of the pioneers of cinema. English territory, Jack learn more about your heart and love, but also on suffering from the rare morph when dreams come true.
This modern fairy tale, where Jack's heart seems as ephemeral as the dance of the human condition Cinderella or the Little Mermaid, has a very original idea might have been better developed. I'm not an expert literary criticism, but I think the work is riddled with cliches and metaphors little achieved, which makes the story lose strength and consistency as you go. The book is sold as a "great children's story, but I think more than adults, the youth groups which can easily hook up with this story that touches on topics such as love, fantasy, infinite sadness and the feeling of being an eternal experienced by Jack misunderstood. Not surprisingly, the protagonist is a teenager during most of the book.
The Mechanics of the Heart will be made into a film and although the book was somewhat disappointing for me, I think the movie may exceed the written work. There are many features of this story that probably work better in film language. Already many imagine it as a film aesthetic timburtoniana and if it be so, I really like to see it.
Joanna Ruiz Méndez
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