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Nicolás Casariego es un experto en secretos, un especialista en guiños, un entendido en símbolos y sugerencias. Esa es, de hecho, la sensación que deja la lectura de su colección de cuentos Lo siento, la suma de los colores da negro , publicada hace dos años por el sello español Ediciones Destino. No cabe duda que lo suyo, más que el dominio de la escritura, es la pasión por la arquitectura literaria, pues en sus relatos hay mucho de conocimiento humano, pero en función de la urdimbre y los vínculos que subyacen a las obvias relaciones entre las personas, sobre todo por parentesco.
The title-cryptic and mysterious, is not, as usually happens with books of short stories, the name of the final report or more extensive or particularly complex or the most representative or seller. (Actually, the titles of twenty texts are fairly simple and descriptive, ie, all serve the existential formula "more substantive article," which contrasts sharply with that of the whole.) Sorry, the sum of the da black colors dialog from a third story, "The appointment" and refers, without doubt, the family spirit of the book. This is exactly the reaction you get the star of that history when attempts to delve into the life of his enigmatic father, always ends up defending it.
The protagonist explains that assertion follows color: "So, Aunt Luisa gave the impression that life was sad and evil people, and that I had to wonder too low morals of my father. I knew that he had taken from a drawing workshop where he went with her inseparable sister, and referring to the mixture of inks or paints for primary subtractive colors, cyan, magenta and yellow, that resulted in black. Did not improve his opinion of the world or my father when I explained to my aunt in the case of lights, if we mix the additive primary colors, red, blue and green, gives white. "
Therefore, the response, despite the optimistic rebuttal, endures and "blacken" metaphorically to the set. And the nice excuse "sorry" ends up being a shameless imposition of a dark reality.
Casariego designed the book as a journey through the familiar maze. The father figure as a hero arose in the first story ("The Adventure") with remarkable effect in subsequent texts. The first story serves to introduce the reader to a world free demystification, but that still leaves some room for heroic action. Item which is related pages later, the twenty-text ("The Garden"), whose fortune after another "lesson" is as sharp as ambiguous: "You learn that there are no small affair."
remains concerned at the relationship between the first and the twenty story. Casariego the links with a colorful brush strokes, combining also the time of the heroic cycle of Paradise, this reserve of happiness lost by the speed of the world, in conflict with city \u200b\u200blife, where it is forbidden to stop and think and enjoy. Furthermore, this relationship and suggest other possible communicating vessels between the other stories, the author stresses the value of the smart kid and wise old man, two ends of the same story that beautifully symbolizes the drama of man increasingly private-or away - of his own nature.
Between father and son, the alpha and omega symbols and characters and textual, Casariego offers a broad universe of characters, themes and situations, mix of stocks and scenarios. This wide range denoting a deep knowledge of art a word, but, above all, people of flesh and blood, to appreciate the limits of love, perhaps the feeling most complex and difficult to understand, and the chances of the individual's ability to adapt to new or changing situations such as fashion or death.
Casariego expressed at home in the broad language of the latent, implicit and hidden. His prose avoids the obvious, to concentrate on the thoroughness of detail in various references that enrich and enhance the metaphorical level of his stories, without threatening the enjoyment of an untrained reader or distracted. The author is claro, no requiere de artificio narrativo alguno para enganchar o atrapar. Y si echa mano de técnicas narrativas, lo hace para enfatizar la riqueza de la historia, pero jamás para atiborrar o amedrentar al lector ni, mucho menos, para golpear la autoestima de este.
Tal es lo que ocurre, por ejemplo, en el cuento «El funeral», el sexto relato del libro, en el que se plantea un muy efectivo contrapunto que marca dos tiempos más o menos sucesivos. Por contraste, se descubrirá no solo una diferencia de matiz —para emplear una figura cromática acorde con el título del libro— sino el abismo que separa los intereses de dos sensibilidades que parecían compatible. The history of this story is resolved by an unmistakable Casariego: A cascading auction broken or fragmented, in three or four strong sentences, the contradictory human nature, so difficult to orient in one direction or another if you use a typical final so difficult to define as a conclusion or termination without edges or breaks or bends.
Nearly three quarters of the stories Sorry, the sum of the colors black da present this auction so unique. And, no doubt, so that this resource is so expressive that thing and not a vice or luck tommy narrative creates a rhythm Casariego clearly separating the collection into five parts. Among the stories that do not employ the use of cascading auction, you have "The report" and "Writing." Both the composition emulating order (the first written by a private detective, the second by a school), are made following very ironic dose of credibility. And in both, by imitating the genre itself, Casariego not allowed leave top them with his seal. However, they get digging, with some ingenuity and morbidity in areas where the codes and protocol are essential for survival.
"The Book" and "newspaper" are two stories with typical end. And both, coincidentally also is concerned with transforming power of two objects whose purpose is to provide information through reading. Casariego "proposes a metaphor about the written word? Without a doubt, yes. But yes with flats, as the book is a self-help book, and the newspaper is just that: a newspaper, that is, a prized object at a certain time of day, which then loses its value. From this, which seems to expose Casariego is the exaggerated cult of the word trivial and banal, creating some parity with tales "The Report" and "The wording" regardless of how these and those run out.
Perhaps the stories contiguous " Interiors" and "The Guide", along with the aforementioned "The Adventure" and "The Garden" are the stories most outstanding Sorry, the sum of the colors black da . To "Internal" Casariego shows that, besides being a very good writer, is an extraordinary observer of his surroundings, which is proclaimed as an author who hardly betray their purposes aesthetic. Handling the issue of "Interiors" is in the aesthetics of the book itself. Far from the trappings and close to the simplest forms of authenticity and inalienable right, this story radiates a great encouragement to reaffirm the personal level, where being and seeming is a rhyme with resonances in the very existence if you will be truly happy. But Casariego is the enemy of morals: in the case of "Interiors" happiness is the guise of revenge, politically reprehensible satisfaction, which, however, as the saying goes, is a dish best served cold ... and filled well.
On the story "The Guide" is recalled that there was a country called Paraguay, with more benefits than the Itaipu hydroelectric plant, the largest in the world. By the same story also understand that old age is a space that does not need a man surrenders to the impending death. Thus, Paraguay, apart from becoming a word with a growing number of meanings, is being built, mystery after mystery, and a guide through the country-in a place of emotional reconstruction when all seems lost, the last possibility to be truly free. Strange Casariego lesson that puts on our horizon to achieve a form of immortality.
Sorry, the sum of the colors black da is a particularly acute twenty arithmetic stories that are rooted under each other, and thanks to its neat narrative bill is a proposal whose effect is greater than the sum of individual effects. It is not, as seen from a simple sum for a single result or accurate or correct. Casariego shows with this work that the result gives black, but could also ensures white-like the protagonist of "The appointment" - or various shades of gray as it is understood in most of the stories. How is life or relationships are often between people.
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