Dawn of Faciolince

According to some comments I've heard and read (including the back cover) on the dawn of a husband, the recently published book of short stories by Hector Abad Faciolince, it seems that those who do not have read the full text or only knew by hearsay . That bothers me a bit because I think these reviews, rather than contributions to this book, but intend to promote it, I actually minimized. They imply that only explores how to install the tedium between two people after a long cohabitation, so who is not interested in this topic may not be poking your pages. Actually Dawn of a husband is much more than that. Certainly the issue referred to in these reviews is the central core of some stories, such as fever in Tolu (the second volume), where a guy realizes how his wife for life in another body stronger and youth, into the midst of the way of life (the third) in which a woman decides to leave her husband because he understands that he wants her to do so in order to "burn their last cartridges?, as it is considered close to the aging and therefore intends to use his last chance to enjoy young, firm bodies, The Dawn of a husband (fourth story) which is about a man who no longer feel like the body of his wife (although that follows considering loving and beautiful) and tried to ignore it while looking for other bodies sexually, not necessarily younger but different, which enervates the will; Memorial of grievances, heartbreaking story in which a woman commits suicide and leaves her husband a sincere and terrible letter how he ruined his life with indifference, his debauchery and sincerity rising gaunt man who has laid aside, and someone is hiding something, tales in which a distinguished professor discovers in the email your wife how it takes several years with a known cheating, how she has managed to camouflage after an apparent indifference to the kind her true story, how the deceived husband thinks, impotent and cowardly, in the solitude that is coming if you take the decision to leave, and how it decides to give his wife know he knows the whole truth but do not want to lose.

However, the book does not end there because he also part of the stories album, which opens the book with a gentle story of an older man to share time and memories with the mother mantis, a story fun and sarcastic about the gait of an Italian prostitute and unique way to attract customers; Rime of the Ancient asshole, about a guy who discovers his wife despises him and decides to escape to live carefree and at ease the last days (it is the realization of a dream himself of all that is discovered despised by those around him); Youth, divine treasure story about the enjoyment and the irresponsibility of a young man attractive, wealthy and powerful father (attached to Death in Venice), and sexual excesses of the bourgeoisie, the divine word, a story that reflects the glut eschatological life by a scholar without illusions and without strong personality; The guaca, tales in which Abbot Faciolince take hold of their skills storyteller, so characteristic of the countries , to tell us about contemporary urban myth: the transformation of the life of a family of past and future dull gray, following the guaca found a mobster, Miss Antioquia, story is a faded beauty queen who is looks bad involved with a gangster who's abused and pregnant as revenge because she despises Ninth story gets the reader, so heartbreaking, with high structural aesthetics in the last moments of life of a hostage, the spitting image, which describes a case in Mexican soap-opera itself on two twins separated soon after birth, one grows rich and one poor, and found, already dead the first by a woman who loves them both without knowing they are siblings ( clear that this story brings out the body to the development telebobelas with intrigue and a little romantic final); Back, which chronicles the disillusionment of a man who returns to a city where he lived in his younger days, which is fully changed and he feels the drowning of loneliness and disappointment, and finally, meanwhile, confrontational speech about the pain and fear of a man by the chaos of violence and savagery he sees that his country has melted down.

I do a short synopsis of each story in order to appreciate the variety of topics addressed by the book, but I want to make clear that, as in all his writings, Héctor Abad Faciolince not only concerned because the subject is interesting, but also because how to have met with two key features: flat than not to bore the reader, and have an aesthetic sense, good language skills and mastery of the narrative structure. Thus we see that? Album and Dawn are pictures of a thoughtful husband, Volver, The guaca, Youth, divine treasure and Mantis are chronic Midway through the journey of life and Rime of the Ancient asshole are monologues; Meanwhile a diatribe, Memorial has a reflective style tort letters, and Ninth is the most proactive in terms of structure, imagery and rhythm of prose. Some of these texts lay hold of humor, sarcasm, some critical analysis, we could say philosophical, some are half customs, and finally, the reader finds a monotonous prose texts with a single style and tone, but on the contrast, has varied, with different rhythms and different tones for the enjoyment, reflection or condition.

It should be noted that Abad Faciolince literature makes your life so that, as we read and know more, we can discover in its texts, detecting how corrupt it really happened. Thus we see that the character of the first story he died young and sister killed the father, as did the author, Thaddeus, as Abbot Faciolince at a time, is the son of a diplomat who boredom and constant success lack of the need to fight him to the brink of suicide and wanting to kill his father indulgent (the character in the story but we know it kills him Faciolince Abad fails to do so), the author lived on two occasions very different from life in Italy and character happens to Back, the protagonist is a man Meanwhile opinion threatened by his writings in a country that clearly is Colombia, and so we are finding Faciolince himself, his family, friends, experiences and watered haunts for all his stories and novels. Finally, let me make clear that I had a very strong impression of grievances texts and Memorial meantime, its harshness, confrontational attitude and direct language to put the nail on the head, regardless of the consequences.

The first, on the human baseness in relationships, and the second on our status as a country that is crumbling under the weight of violence and shameless plunder.