who have read other works by Fuentes, is surprised to find a different narrative Company is concerned, much more accessible to the average reader. Maybe sometimes too explicit and explanatory, but manages to keep the suspense of each history until the end. As always in the work of Fuentes, Mexico, as subject and as symbolism, is a constant reference to every story.
in the theater lover, tables and a Shakespearean drama structured basis for a silent love, the protagonist can only grasp the ethereal presence of his beloved through the theater scene. In my mother's cat, what begins as an apparent criticism of human relations and class differences in the key of comedy, then turns into a great story. The mother of the protagonist and his hateful cat are what seem to maintain the boundary between normal and a ghostly underworld.
In Good Company, a young Frenchman change its small personal and intellectual world the terrifying routine of two Mexican aunts. Although his initial plan is to take advantage of its status as a close relative to secure life, his mother's two sisters have a different project for his nephew. In Calixta Brand, the eponymous protagonist of U.S. origin, married a Mexican in a seemingly happy marriage. Over the years, he begins to resent the apparent human intellectual superiority and his wife does not take long when you start to humiliate her by this fact. In Sleeping Beauty, Dr. Jorge Caballero is facing a strange case: a patient, cold as death and lethargic for a constant dream, only reacts to the warm caresses lavished on their hands.
In Vlad, perhaps the most representative story of the work, the nature of the antagonist is evident from the first moment but no such plans, which affect, in different ways, the fate of the other characters. The routine of an average Mexican family is destroyed in the presence of picturesque Gothic-but-Vlad, who makes ironic dissertations on life, God and immortality. Recently published Vlad Carlos Fuentes's novel, and although I have not had a chance to read I suspect, for some comments on the Internet, developing the same idea of \u200b\u200bthe story but obviously more extensive way. Although
could be considered that the presence of elements of the genre clichés, such as haunted houses and mysterious, is a weakness of the stories, I think that is a resource to demonstrate the powerful burst of horror in ordinary lives, Creole and routine characters. Overuse and obvious contrast is instructive intent: Sources tells us that even the most apparent normality lurks the shadow of the bizarre. We also strongly indicates the fragility of our everyday existence by the fact that, as shown in the back of the book, we usually call the imaginary beings do not die completely. " Joanna Ruiz Méndez
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