Francisco Ortiz strikes again after his great novel Last night in Granada. I say surprising because Almería 66, Ortiz has found through the 44 stories that make up the work, the perfect embodiment of his own biased and disturbing of the daily life of rootless beings, characters who, in some cases try to understand why they have responded like a curse. They are unable to ask themselves their own misery or their own confusions. Consequently, these stories arouse nostalgia for a certain moral certainty and clarity of perspective compared to a culture that has become unreadable and unthinkable. That desire to talk about certain innocence even in the midst of depravity. In the bottom of the hole, there is nothing to make you feel. We are unable to measure the consequences of our actions. The climate of hopelessness and failure, ignorance and prejudices. Beings are used to solve problems with violence they face, lacking of cultural support and lack of human and mental maturity that allowed a civilized solution, their reaction to the difficulties is primitive, but consistent with his approach to life. People who have lost the north, which are confused, they are deceived and are not able to fit their problems.
popular models and charm quickly fade to reveal something more somber, ignoble and unfathomable. In the process, Francisco Ortiz, said that the cliché of contemporary society, that communal land of benevolence requires a review. Throughout the 44 stories we turn to violence can not necessarily explain or rationalized. Is the sign of the ability to Ortiz, our identification with their stories, inspired by his story. In some of his stories are lurid and disturbing scenes of domestic violence almost never reflected in the literature in a manner so subtle exempt from any Manichean to which we are so used. Ortiz is not satisfied with easy explanations. Many of his characters are not simply crazy, the "disease" that push them to a murderous rage are a complex family histories. Hence also the great strength of his stories, achieving unparalleled master of suspense with every page, and even in each of its lines. Ortiz knows embody his characters, and does so frequently, parents, wives and girlfriends, children. And the reactions of his characters are so real and human, only a penetration and a very similar experience can be captured and managed to express. The violence is so delicately woven into the texture of contemporary life is no longer possible to detect it or describe it, or know where it ends and begins capitalism brutalization. Ortiz suggested that the disease of many of its characters is a manifestation of a dysfunction, but the evils of our society. The extreme violence, and so indifferent to describe it, writing gives a strange and ethereal dimension, that is the closest thing to an ethics or aesthetics, which can afford these stories.
"Life is an adventure and throw balls", says one of the characters in the play. Write as does Francisco Ortiz, too.
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