Gabriel Velasquez Toledo
The
Liróforo Ruben Salazar Mallen. Soledad
Calinescu defined as urban tale, one in which the city interacts with the characters and deeply affecting. The epic hero becomes antihero in the modern novel. Such is the case of one of the first novels that were created in Mexico with urban issues, Soledad, Ruben Salazar Mallen.
The character interaction with the world is taken for granted in each of the shares. The city represents chaos and disorder, saturation, hurry, smoke, congestion. The city is the everyday life that is self-consistently in the middle of the absurd as shown in following excerpt: "It is difficult to explain, from twenty years earlier lived in the room he woke up just now. Twenty years can know not only the reflections, but also the sounds and smells of the room more sullen. " The perception of that reality, as happens to Achilles, the main character is moments "percatóse of living in a dirty city and sad that people had a dejected air of resignation and defeat."
The condition of the anti-hero Achilles arrives at base of human pathos. His loneliness makes him someone weak, his daily life is overwhelming and the lack of action breaks in her life. "I do not care, nothing. I'm not a great man, I am not a demigod, I'm just Alcázar Achilles, but Achilles Alcázar, youngsters, took his place because he works, not revolutionary merits or recommendations. "His age is affected because it secretes a watching world away , others. The change makes and introducing negative effects on the opposite side of the stock.
Obviously the penalty which earned him the censure of the first quarter century, is completely a farce because it is not indecent language (as was charged at the time), however in a simple and accurate, is to reflect the actual condition of the people, surrounded by elements plausible, but at no time allowed the offense.
The novel transcends a single day in which the character you draw their perception of time as the events occur "This had happened in a very short time, but it seemed to have thought long and an exclamation of Torres, who broke the thread of his thought, he seemed outburst, though it happened almost immediately to the words uttered a moment before. " This is how the author is reset to the feeling of immediacy. He dives into the character's thought and done with this they can understand the thoughts and reflections to transform that perception.
techniques the author uses to make the story are very diverse, on the one hand, it recharges in introspection and the interior monologue "If I had not had the unfortunate idea to look for them, nothing would have happened and I did not see between the networks of these atheists, "to give voice to the feelings of Achilles, but also relies on the use of a narrator metadiegético, omnipresent, which is responsible for narrating the actions" Blasphemy made a leap of Achilles Alcázar. More puzzled than frightened or angry, he stood looking at his interlocutor with his eyes wide, unable to utter a single word. " Popular speech with which the work is made, lends itself to the reader has an empathy with the narration, which is also used for descriptions of the scenes and details that give credibility to the text "The wide streets of Monte de Piedad, with its fresh ridges on one side and its colonial style houses other, seemed cold and somewhat hostile to Mr. Alcazar. "
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