Those of us who count among the friends of Care Santos and followed your blog , we have been privileged to witness the intimate adventures of gestation of her last child, closed rooms (Planeta, 2011). We learned that decided Care throw trash draft the first version and, on the advice of several trusted friends, decided to resume and continue the story that haunted him for some time. In his digital diary, the author of The Roaring was launched into cyberspace clues about its contents: the promotion of the century warehouses, Weird News of the archive, priceless ads remedies fabulous time in which the story - late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with particular prominence of modernist Barcelona and traveling pictures of places in which it was written, as the mysterious and enchanting lake of Como, where he spent a substantial part of the novel.
If I had been a of the lucky readers of this first version would have had no hesitation in encouraging her to pursue personal ghosts that have ended up taking the humanity of a great novel, no doubt his best novel to date, which is saying something in a production literature is about, if not already above, the fifty titles, most aimed at children and young people (one day someone will write a thesis on the days of Care Santos, possibly, and my brother Felix J. is me, take more hours than ours).
The first great success of closed rooms is its narrative structure, the choice of two voices will alternate to tell the story of the painter Amadeo Lax and its secrets: the Lax Violeta, granddaughter of the protagonist, and only gets to know the trim of the main events, and the omniscient narrator, the other owner of all the details , and the ability to move from one year to another, from room to room, fleeced his literary information criterion.
And here we have another of the virtues of the writing of Care: ability to intelligently dose-many interesting facts "that fit into the life of a celebrity and that of his ancestors and descendants. Care released tracks and details that are connecting up as if by magic, leaving no stone unturned, feeding the reader's desire to know, speculation about the future of a character or circumstance. It also applies to various narrative devices that test their detective skills, journalism and loves to dive Care and newspaper files, shared passion, "as the inclusion of news from newspapers, e-mail messages between the main actors or comment critical of some paintings by Amadeo, crucial to illustrate the passages that are telling. Care also practiced what we might call-in a good way, of course, the narrative ellipses opportunistic, ie, which spares the reader the fact that I would know at that time to offer it in the instant literary ideal.
For the finale, which, of course, I will not reveal, the writer still has time for fireworks only suitable for great masters, as the omniscient narrator walks backward in time in a fast-motion sequence that gives us details that complement, especially romantically, the story told. A true literary workshop class, no doubt. Also at the end
Care clarifies the characters that came from his pen, the real, the events that actually occurred and that overwhelmed his head to find the necessary clothing. Timely clarification for the unwary who want to find online pictures of Amadeo Lax and ideal pin who, like me, wanted to get to the bottom of the process of creating one of the novels of the year.
