Como los verdaderos héroes de Percy Galindo, escrita en primera persona y en presente histórico, set in his native Huancavelica, tells fluently, and at times a real and passionate delirium-the adventures of a guy who intends to dispense with all his past, including its name, in the exercise narrative assumes. But it is a narrative exercise that does not ignore the reflection that some events involve not missing an opportunity to describe various urban and rural areas of the former Villa Rica de Oropesa, and ignores the history near, far and remote area of \u200b\u200bPeru. Like true heroes is a complex novel, but simple structure: two very well defined from the crisis of the narrator-character with no name. This crisis is nothing a physical and emotional collapse. Galindo limit referred to in this situation (as a human experience and narrative as a boundary between the first and second parts of the novel) as follows: "I do not answer and I sink deeper into the soil. / Shot in the middle of the track, I think, is going to rain. / I lift my head and back. Calculate how much you have to move, dragging me back, arms, to return to the park, my starting point. " (P. 192)
The second part of the book consists of testimonies (fragments) that, like pieces of a puzzle narrative will give a greater depth or texture to unfinished record of the first part. But not lose sight of the fall of the character literal and metaphorical: the true extent of this will be appreciated by the end of the novel, the "testimony" of Iris Ramirez. Here we are at the same event, but from outside, ie, reframed and interpreted from the psychological dimension of an unfriendly character with the protagonist: "Because that's what I thought, that of pure drunkenness or the prevailing cold the bastard was dead lying there on the bench. I know not where I got then courage and encouraged me to touch your forehead, burning, burning like hell itself, despite the rain and cold. Is the heat of the devil, I said, frankly scared, and went back to moving again. " (P. 357)
plain Unlike verbal marks the first part, the second is a sequence of points of view fairly rugged. In some ways it is as if the author offered the desert coast, the apparent flatness of the monotonous landscape from north to south through undulating just a speech, to interrupt suddenly, from the second half, with ups and downs such as the Andean landscape. That is, as if every part of the record corresponding to a field or geographical area.
But this rugged landscape, that is, the narrative terrain rugged, broken or difficult access is the second part of As the real heroes, is an order on which it is appropriate to reflect.
So as you can see the Andes from the window of a plane and throws up sequences in a disposition and harmonic variation in the same way we find, firstly, the registration of Professor Soto. In this follow Iris Ramirez, Jesus Urruchi, Alberto Ramirez (fourth place), Lenin Huarancca, Ms. Lopez and Carlitos Limachi. After you enter a new sequence: Professor Soto, Amador Garcia, Sergeant Ruiz, Alberto Ramirez (fourth place), Ms. Lopez and Carlitos Limachi. In the third sequence: Professor Soto, Lenin Huarancca, Javiercito Waldo Contreras and Perez. In the fourth: Professor Soto, Iris Ramirez, Jose Carlos and Abilio Curi. In the fifth, Professor Soto, Lenin Huarancca, Paulino Atúncar professor Ruby Reef. In the sixth, Professor Soto, Iris Ramirez, Lenin Huarancca, Carlitos Limachi, Waldo Contreras, Alejandro Vega and Alberto Ramírez. In the seventh, Professor Soto, Alberto Ramírez, Lenin and nurse Esther Huarancca Piscoya. In short: 17 controls (figure anything free) and 36 witnesses.
These records also establish itself as a great seven-part polyphonic unity, are apparent in the reading as a succession of voices that are giving birth and at the same time, expanding the universe of the novel with a sense very well calculated. This set could be assumed, by its function as a sort of Greek chorus. As is known, in the plays of ancient Greece, the choir presented the context and also summarized the facts and situations to which the public could follow the events smoothly. This choir would comment on the main themes of the work and nothing trivial matter, teaching the public how to react to the staging.
Many of the references to this sort of Greek chorus-Huancavelica-for its ability to explain and discuss what has happened with some gossip tone Picture Rating the tragic hero with no name " create intersections with the facts of the first part. The stimulating and rewarding of this proposal is how Galindo will provide a changing and relative truth, which enriches the story line above.
not forget that the real heroes is, in large part, and from his first words: "Seventeen stab wounds" - a crime novel, so that the use of evidence and witnesses, in many cases, rather than explain, reveal, confuse or contradict, exacerbate the narrative rhythm. We are facing verbal instincts that suggest an open auction and ironic ("A brief note of an order") that has the initials of the author (PGR) as a signature-final where even the authorship of the record of the testimony is in doubt. Impulses that create furrows subplots also because, as happens in life is really no fact-although isolable isolated.
Galindo, with remarkable skill of harmonizing these stories high in a pretty solid body. And it is free of voices that this cluster has as its epigraph a phrase from Charles Baudalaire ("The only true sports hero), which echoes the title of the novel and, especially, reveals the following sardonic grin gestures protagonist.
The classic hero-from Gilmagesh, Odysseus and Aeneas, even the hero-artist who descends into hell for love, as Orpheus and Dante, to the romantic-like hell of Lermontov, or recent urban-as outlined by the great Sabato-all, without exception, as French poet suggests, are mostly solitary creatures if not bored.
This certainly makes it more interesting novel Galindo and drags his protagonist without identity to a point where there is no turning back. Or maybe, if we still believe in the idea that love is a disease that cures everything and ends with the real heroes.