There are books to which it is difficult to come precisely because all the praise we have heard about them. " The Heart of Darkness Catalan," he called. An adventure book capable of circumventing the puritanical moral complacency Western mentality of the early twenty-first century. And so forth. But in addition, the whispers about books that we all get told that Cold Skin, by Albert Sánchez Piñol was a story exciting, scary and shocking that left you stuck to your seat from the outset. Too much praise for daring to him like that. Too many previous disappointments to bear a new one. Thus, accumulating fear of disappointment, copy cold skin became smaller and smaller within the shelf. He was losing weight rapidly in favor of other readings that promised less and that therefore, their disappointment would be lower.
But as always in this life, in the end you end up deciding, let's look at that brunette who sits on the fourth row of Regional Ethnology class-for example-and closer to his ear telling him that during months have you thinking that you say have the courage. You may release the slap. You may not ignore. Or even tell you a story exciting, a moral and psychological fable you still have several weeks after thinking about it. Sánchez Piñol's that dark.
skin cold, critical eye award of RNE , begins with atmospheric officer arriving by boat to a remote South Atlantic island. The island, in the form of L and only a few square kilometers, is uninhabited and only two buildings: a lighthouse built on one end and a technical-enabled home, on the other. The coach has come to spend an entire year of solo work by measuring the intensity and wind direction at a time where there are no computers or phones. It is a job for someone who is fleeing from something and who is not afraid of himself.
However
rush events. The technician must share the island with a resident Lighthouse, shy and not given to dialogue. And it must also survive them.
them This is the real theme of the novel. Many, more than anyone ever could have imagined, and have unexplained reasons. Barbarians and savages sometimes, other Cartesian logic, no longer insist on their efforts against these strange inhabitants of the island. Do not give a single break in the mind of the coach, who tries to interpret reality with all the principles that went into the trunk of luggage.
Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist and expert in African realities through the Centre d'Estudis Africans of Barcelona. The symmetries between the conquest of the island by these two characters and the colonization of Africa or the speeches of the colonial encounter and barbarism are evident. There are many points of reflection on the interpretation of other -or in this case they - through European views. It is for this reason that compares the novel with the brilliant work of Conrad. The technician is the equivalent to atmospheric character named Conrad Marlow, while the surly keeper can detect traces of a Kurtz away from civilization for so long that it is incapable to re-think like her.
Obviously the work of Sánchez Piñol nor a copy of Conrad nor has the extent of it. However, the moral disquisition and meeting that are common to both, cold skin adds a human element of desire, fear and revenge. This story puts us in the shoes of atmospheric technical and makes us understand the twists at the beginning so utterly inconceivable and surprising, that his mind and ends up providing, teaching us how desire is the most potent weapon, that open war, fighting continues and does not grant any relief to the mind.
After reading, a reading that is difficult to give notice and the images of terror, tenderness and moral arguments he has given us the book are hard to forget. It is difficult to talk about this exciting story without decoding any more of the exciting plot, so just add that we will never look the same eyes a cat flap [glups]. Enjoy it.
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