Lomas Morales and Guillermo Busutil (Ateneo de Málaga, 24 February 2011)
I knew enough narrative that had Busutil incorporated into my work contemporary English narrative, which felt that its narrative is loose, plastic and pouring, with a special care for the signifier to the point that it is the result of a significant perception on the importance of language as well the source of pleasure literature. In fact stated that language so well is "mestizo, minimalist, straightforward, contaminated by the poetic and the essay, perhaps because I am heir to the American literary journalism of Tom Wolfe school." But their worlds are also large, complex, urban, generous and current, imbued with modernity and attentive to their conformations. A present which was never outside for their special status as a journalist attentive and meaning.
But along with this his work reflects a deep understanding of the narrative technique of storytelling is one of the leading growers at the present time with writers such as Care Santos, Juan Bonilla, Ippolito G. Navarro said ... this writer who lives in Granada, Málaga, in the story "if not caught and taken the reader breathless until the end, does not work", adding that the writer of this subgenre in which it has specialized as a runner of 1500 meters: "The coaches told us we had to come out strong, keeping pace and sprinting in the last corner, and that's the story." Y Busutil aspires to express that vision athletic in his stories, endowed with strength and precise and right path, both in the structural organization, which is quite a lover, and the significance at the level of significance. In this regard saying
"The story is a stroke of hand, based on the reverse of reality or imagination of probability, which expresses short bursts of life, mysteries of an instant and intense time capsules to enjoy setback. And even still, many editors and critics consider it an exercise for beginners or the younger brother of the novel, the story is an autonomous genre, rich in style and suitable for readers that, like the rest of the people are trapped by the current express existence. "
On his narrative perspective and the role of the reader in his warning that "seeks an intelligent reader." And when that meant, no doubt he was leaving a kind of modern readers that literature searches only spend time entertaining. No stranger to the entertainment, but is obviously more demanding of his reader: "Today dominates the reader kleenex, that seeks to occupy a time-out or entertaining. But reading is a dialogue between the writer and the reader. The writer as a citizen exercised through the literature. I am interested in the literature that shoots reality around us, and that requires a reader that is active, an accomplice, "he said in a statement to the newspaper El Pais, April 9, 2003.
so far has published several books of short stories: The invisible labyrinths (1986), Confessions of a criminal (1988), Individuals SA (1999), Glossy Brown (1999), Drugstore (2003), Nothing tastes as sweet as the mouth Summer (2005), Moleskine (2009) (anthology of short stories) and promised Lives (2011), which at the time of this writing has not yet submitted. The nine stories
SA Individuals [1] develop in Viviana (Málaga), a fictional town, but very real, which presents topics such as intrusion, violence, greed, fraud ... Most are detective stories and manners in which living beings chronic tragic or grotesque situations are manifest beings subjected to a reality that imprisons. According to Eduardo Moga
[2] "Busutil prose is loose and slightly plastic pouring. Metaphors abound, but sometimes haggle themselves ("the erection of hanging the trigger rate). The rhetorical background that highlights the use of certain hypallage-is broad enough so that the reading is not monotonous. (...) The main objection that can be made to individuals, is not SA style, but structural: often, the narrator tells too much. " This may prove to critics Moga a reality that detracts from the story can be seen in the opposite direction as a value in itself, because everything depends on the perspective you want to adopt.
Their stories are in some way, a commitment to society that he lives, a society in which publicity organized his conquests and exercises his will and the means of communication and consumption, a society in which ambition and materialism is a substance in which they live and the characters are cleared. Clearly influenced by the black cinema and the narrative of court police, in addition to intellectual observation of reality. Individuals
SA starts with "Silver Hands", a history of psychology in principle antithetical to end up looking like a desdoblaje process and approach, because the chorizo \u200b\u200bVandelvira Matías, "Manos de Plata", has nothing to do with the inspector Gonzalo blight "El Guapo." However, both need the same money. In "The photographer disarmed" wants to build a metaphor for the image. "The bridge builder" has the vision of the future city, an artist who started from the principle that should "involve the work in their own dreams and domestic needs, "a poet of form. The world of mafias and the perversion of a society in which only succeeds dishonesty and use or exchange value that humans may have emerged with force in his work.
But along with this his work reflects a deep understanding of the narrative technique of storytelling is one of the leading growers at the present time with writers such as Care Santos, Juan Bonilla, Ippolito G. Navarro said ... this writer who lives in Granada, Málaga, in the story "if not caught and taken the reader breathless until the end, does not work", adding that the writer of this subgenre in which it has specialized as a runner of 1500 meters: "The coaches told us we had to come out strong, keeping pace and sprinting in the last corner, and that's the story." Y Busutil aspires to express that vision athletic in his stories, endowed with strength and precise and right path, both in the structural organization, which is quite a lover, and the significance at the level of significance. In this regard saying
"The story is a stroke of hand, based on the reverse of reality or imagination of probability, which expresses short bursts of life, mysteries of an instant and intense time capsules to enjoy setback. And even still, many editors and critics consider it an exercise for beginners or the younger brother of the novel, the story is an autonomous genre, rich in style and suitable for readers that, like the rest of the people are trapped by the current express existence. "
On his narrative perspective and the role of the reader in his warning that "seeks an intelligent reader." And when that meant, no doubt he was leaving a kind of modern readers that literature searches only spend time entertaining. No stranger to the entertainment, but is obviously more demanding of his reader: "Today dominates the reader kleenex, that seeks to occupy a time-out or entertaining. But reading is a dialogue between the writer and the reader. The writer as a citizen exercised through the literature. I am interested in the literature that shoots reality around us, and that requires a reader that is active, an accomplice, "he said in a statement to the newspaper El Pais, April 9, 2003.
so far has published several books of short stories: The invisible labyrinths (1986), Confessions of a criminal (1988), Individuals SA (1999), Glossy Brown (1999), Drugstore (2003), Nothing tastes as sweet as the mouth Summer (2005), Moleskine (2009) (anthology of short stories) and promised Lives (2011), which at the time of this writing has not yet submitted. The nine stories
SA Individuals [1] develop in Viviana (Málaga), a fictional town, but very real, which presents topics such as intrusion, violence, greed, fraud ... Most are detective stories and manners in which living beings chronic tragic or grotesque situations are manifest beings subjected to a reality that imprisons. According to Eduardo Moga
[2] "Busutil prose is loose and slightly plastic pouring. Metaphors abound, but sometimes haggle themselves ("the erection of hanging the trigger rate). The rhetorical background that highlights the use of certain hypallage-is broad enough so that the reading is not monotonous. (...) The main objection that can be made to individuals, is not SA style, but structural: often, the narrator tells too much. " This may prove to critics Moga a reality that detracts from the story can be seen in the opposite direction as a value in itself, because everything depends on the perspective you want to adopt.
Their stories are in some way, a commitment to society that he lives, a society in which publicity organized his conquests and exercises his will and the means of communication and consumption, a society in which ambition and materialism is a substance in which they live and the characters are cleared. Clearly influenced by the black cinema and the narrative of court police, in addition to intellectual observation of reality. Individuals
SA starts with "Silver Hands", a history of psychology in principle antithetical to end up looking like a desdoblaje process and approach, because the chorizo \u200b\u200bVandelvira Matías, "Manos de Plata", has nothing to do with the inspector Gonzalo blight "El Guapo." However, both need the same money. In "The photographer disarmed" wants to build a metaphor for the image. "The bridge builder" has the vision of the future city, an artist who started from the principle that should "involve the work in their own dreams and domestic needs, "a poet of form. The world of mafias and the perversion of a society in which only succeeds dishonesty and use or exchange value that humans may have emerged with force in his work.
Among the motley array of characters who move in the gutter and go without scruple to become symbols of power and influence, we find a new one in "The draft marks" ... Guillermo Busutil in his work is true to the title he has given, for their operations narrative is based around the fictional setting of the worlds of his characters and their psychologies. There are no stories in the classical sense, ie a specific argument, but rather a literary recreations and realities of space and are used by the writer from Granada to recreate the flavor of the word, its projection abundant verbal and expressive that has basically supported the symbiosis of the real world fictional words and images in order to provide the text of a literary texture, rather than an inward-looking history. Stories
which uses the first or third person narrative, omniscient persistent, dominating with ease and supporting characters always ideological superstrate that society where they operate this is totally corrupt and mediocrity and wrapped in rotting taking the realism and last of his works appears to be growing metaphorical symbolization.
Drugstore (2003) inhabits the same field of narrative expression in which learned the value of word and image, and the extent and accuracy of his descriptions, have as strong as his need to get them. Busutil, a close friend of the imaginary in English literature, which could follow the manifest expressive writers like Prada or compass (and in the past a concise Proust) is an employee of the English language, which tries to get the most expressive springs with all kinds of images, metaphors, semantic shifts, unexpected associations of all kinds etc. His territory is the language and words through creating a personal style characterized by self-care language. Something that a journalist is strange, because every day imposes a sloppy rhyming already warned at the time Azorín. Busutil does not happen in English language and acquired great literary value. You can not argue the brilliance of expression, which also makes precious gala in his journalism, "which has been seen by some critics as one of its values \u200b\u200bbut their worlds are heterogeneous, enlarged and envelopes. In this regard said Antonio Garrido Moraga [3] that "there are many cultures in these stories, culture data not pedantic fascia to demonstrate that the author has more to dry the tip of the keyboard. The culture is assimilation and that allows the winks and other key feature of this book: the contraescritura. "
There are several common elements that make up the twenty stories Drugstore. First character: all her stories or story unfolds the life of one of them described in great detail, from a clearly anti-realist approach to use, their prototypes aim to create us a comprehensive picture and vigorous in the Busutil that displays all associative and semantic capabilities to intoxicate the reader. A History and a / an actor concentrates. In a large majority the "hero" of its stories is a man, bordering between thirty and fifty years and stands in a profession (Pancho Ramos, boxing, Pascual Madeira, in the film, the immigrant becomes a hero Abadie strictly to the final, Costa Gomez in the journalism, Iron Eyes, film, Marolo Magellan, making sand castles, Simon Haendel, in the photographic, etc.). Busutil on which displays a precise detail. In fact it is the search for crucial instrument in his work. At one point tell a story that details are more important than the stories themselves.
characters "play" to search for an identity or the formation of a space imagery where the identity or "illusion" is assumed. What makes their stories on proposals also psychological: in some cases as search defaults. But for most there is an identification or if you want a line with the life they lead, but in other cases there may be a split as in the case of Pascual Madeira.
Women, however, have a secondary role, although some stories starring: Emmanuelle Garcia (in "The bubble Leopardi), selected in a casting in order to present an advertisement for a drink: the staging is so perfect that evaporates into the atmosphere of the stage. A magical disappearance is also starring Jennifer T. in the story of the same name. The social worker brings Greece Sánchez voice in "A pair comfortable." Home girl, Violet Queen, plays the part in "The secret dream of Violet Queen." Gloria Gumbau dancer in "Dancing Retro, Satan." A song for free paint and graffiti takes us from the hand of Siena Pantone. However, Busutil is much more comfortable to develop men who, under no circumstances are problematic socially but do have their own internal conflict.
All the stories focus on the urban area that gets a clear expression. Being imaginary territory Viviana city, identified with Malaga, which appears with your name, however, in some accounts as it is with the city of Copenhagen.
sentence periods are spacious with plenty hypotaxis, which generates a slow elocutiva sheltered by the lack of plot or a particular story, except to the development of psychological history or life of the main character. There is no conflict literature, although there is a liberal vision and commitment in the social world while not identified with any ideological manifesto. Sometimes stories are closed, in most, but sometimes prefers open, leaving a halo mysterious and intriguing, more evident in the early narrative.
In short, a writer clinching his narrative work with this new release and consolidates a style endowed with a relentless search for the expression, description, and psychological development in a troubled world.
Nothing tastes as good as the mouth of the summer is a beautiful edition of Francisco Javier Torres in ages books, Benalmádena, 2005. With it not only wanted to reflect a growing sensuality or eroticism (first story) but also the importance of memory in shaping the literary work. Through its eleven stories penetrate in the transfer of feelings and what I would call the formation of a sentimental memory or a sentimental memory code. Therefore tell the writer at the end of the book: "There's a summer that returns the memory for a love, a landscape, a body, childhood ... In the life of each summer there is always a change of skin, or have met again, with gentle words, what we were or what they might be. " In these stories has shed roughly baroque language, verbal mannerism and striking image, and has dived into the construction of memory through a direct sentences, less enveloping, more progressive, allowing further progress narrative and the rescue of the narrative in its purest form. The formal dilettantism of the past gives way to an emotional content compilers that can talk the construction of a song in prose affects.
In "Melville" ("a tribute to American narrator?) A couple goes on vacation to the town of Melville to rebuild their old passion. The man, Conrad (another homage?) Shows discouraged until the excitement at the sight of the young fisher Rhodes will reactive the passion for his wife. It is the passion and delayed the passage of time hindrances in the formation of amorous passion. To do opt for a direct language in which you can not miss the influence of the erotic narrative mainly from Manont Lescaut, Philosophy in the toilet and Dangerous Liaisons. So told in a language dear to the collection The vertical smile: "She could not contain the excitement that made her bend over and lick his cock Conrad ... Lelouch noticed in the sudden erection pubic member Conrad ..., asking maltreating her not to leave ...., as he stood clenching his buttocks and nipples ... biting, whispering that he knew nothing as well as the mouth of the summer. " The construction of desire and the influence of exogenous factors to it, but decisive, have the potential to Busutil for, carried a meticulous lyricism, creating meanders appropriate where there are expressive metaphor, periphrasis and metonymy in a narrow adjectives.
of painful beauty we could tick the last days of a lesbian painter, Ithaca Snekya, which is slowly consuming the cancer in "West Coast Pop." His painting is characterized by the construction with the eye of an entomologist and the union of the existential experience and pure aesthetics, "Women and men from expressing his own mortal flesh scenic image and its links to a reality defined by advertising, culture and conflict in a changing society. " His enigmatic and final exhibition is titled: Never get to express everything you love. The action takes place in Manchester but also in other places that become the focus of your trip. Make your last will, bequeathing his house and the rights of his work to his beloved Cortés, then go on a sailboat.
"Grimper" the last story of Spider-Man is also a tribute to the memory and maybe those old comic books that captivated both members of his generation. The protagonist is Wan der Waals, described in great detail, preparing for his last great adventure. Pointillism architecture becomes very descriptive language to shape the dreams climber placed in front of Building Spy Seffer to finish his career, his last climb while is constructed through the process of stress-strain of suspense needed to know if Waals get his way, or defeat will be his last breath.
The story of a stockbroker, his past, his emotions ..., are the seeds of "Beach Stone L-40", where we see the obsession of Busutil by objects, Futurism and postmodernism. The protagonist is Genevieve Strani, forty-two, presented as direct and powerful women with whom Busutil is ready to prove that equality is an instrument of modernity. His encounters with Alain, the confidences with Muriel, his obsessions and concerns are the focus of the story where we also discovered a a romantic woman who has discovered the mythical from the everyday. Very different is
"O'Hara's skin", which evokes a young rider erotic encounter with his friend Santos. In this story the way expressive action is quick and takes over the work in which we construct a fragment of the life of Oscar, his first years in school, his passion for physical education, his grandparents, the mythical lost childhood the meeting with Santos, "The smell of her hair disheveled and his fleshy smile (...) rosemary scented air and resin oozing narrowed Santos thighs, moving up my body twisting." Isabella
Martel's story and shipwrecked, as well as other disputes are like women possess a recreation of a passage from The Odyssey "Punta women", which highlights the Gallicism ab initio "in glissando" and the repetition of the preposition "in" to recharge too much of the story in its first paragraph. It is customary in the importance Busutil acquiring adjectives. No longer in this story but only roughly specified primarily adjectives and appreciative, and the significance of recreation in the descriptions that aims to build sparingly and in great detail.
in "Iguana" two friends (a writer and a sculptor) star tell the story that a trip to Iguana, a paradise. One of them is an inveterate reader of the Odyssey.
The story of Ezra and Korea, down syndrome, stars in "The swan dive." Almost all its beginnings are in media res and sometimes the narrator is in first person and others is omniscient narrator. The funny thing is the name that puts some characters (Blake, Cavafy, Hölderlin ...), as tribute to them. In fact none other than Ezra Ezra Pound. It is a symbolic and emotional story, a tribute to his reading and a great metaphor, but also a journey through adolescence and feelings: "I never knew if my father was exposed to Uncle Rainer Mary. But the truth is that dejér out with Ezra and that break was beneficial for my cousin. " Granada, the birthplace of the writer, this story appears in the places of his childhood: The Neptune, the tennis club, The Apollo, The Miami ... A history of tributes in which the narrator confesses that life has provided "startling joys, rewards and occasional headache."
"World Woman Love" tells the story of Sebastian Juve and his alter ego, Leopoldo Scarpa, for winning the TV contest and Win Report. In this racking performed reliably Busutil criticism into a kind of society that only values \u200b\u200byouth and experience at all is seen as a liability. The encounter with the young Nguyen, he meets through the web World Woman Love, along with television success in the competition of gaps allow the player to conquer another life. Enrique
Gable's story is the protagonist of "Coraline." After getting down by depression begins a tour of Holland with his wife, Greta, and girls. At one point the story will complain that life has shown that "the talent, courage and effort, do not guarantee that people get ahead. It is tired of seeing how many bastards succeed and those who only know how to make the ball or tripping. " A bitter image that contrasts with the trip. In a way, like all these stories, a journey to the bottom of himself, his personal demons and the world around.
Finally in Pandora, the mythical title as allusive, becomes circular at first with a story erotic-only at the beginning, in which the protagonist is Malo de Molina (same name of the professor at the University of Granada). In a fierce and gritty language speaks of the cock before ramming or pussy of Montenegro: "I knew that the only real thing to Malo de Molina, was a good whore expert hands, thighs warm and comfortable silence." The story with the young Slav who had "arrejuntarse" his death and the girl born-which would put the name of Pandora (the same place where he arrived) - Consuelo Vives, Larousse ... struggle with a deep story.
A plural work that frames a narrator in full creative maturity and has gradually ceased descriptive syrup, the taste for ornate language to get into the ferocity of the stories and a bittersweet taste to the existence which is organized by the sieve of memory and an encounter with a mixed society which is frequently criticized. Juan Carlos Palma
[4] said "are small and emotional odes to hope and happiness, which magically vanish just as quickly they came (...) A sweet taste, not reach the sweet, leaving the reader with a pleasant aftertaste. It would be unfair to talk about losers, if any characters that carry some frustration. " There are many themes present in these stories: sex, love, art, identity, isolation, human weakness ... Justo Navarro said in the presentation of this work that "ordinary life is daily and almost normal bureaucratic, as if it was absolutely fantastic, and in one motion dive into the fantastic as if it were normal in the world." And José María de Loma [5] talk that through this collection of stories demonstrates "the exaltation and excitement of the senses, carnality, salty taste that takes life. "
[1] Busutil, G. (1999): Individuals SA. Malaga Arguval.
[2] Moga, E: "Individuals SA de Guillermo Busutil", [online], URL:
[3] Garrido Moraga, A. (2003): "The magic shop" in Cuadernos del Sur, No. 784, p. 12.
[4] Palma, JC: Summertime Blues, Mercury, September 2005, p. 23.
[5] Loma, J. M ª: "The mouth of Summer ", La Opinion, July 23, 2005, p. 45.
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