Every great short story writer never ends up living in that place of short stories, a universe limited in space but conducive to the most endless presentations. This is well known by another great young current author comparable to Elvira navarro how is Argentina Samantha Schweblin.
In this new book by the Huelva-born writer, she summarizes a set of stories essentially focused on the present but timeless in their presentation of estrangement, of that brilliant effect of large feathers capable of stripping our reality to be able to observe it in an impudent, cruel, true way.
Because reality is structured according to an imaginary that always points to the subjective. And that is where the metaphors, allegories or fables of the great writers end up creating a common place, a kind of limbo that all imagination can access to rescue disturbing impressions, ultimately lucid once the symbol explodes on our conscience. to leave us speechless.
The title of the book: The Island of the Rabbits, comes from one of the stories between the fable and the symbolism with different readings between the absurdity of our behavior and our propensity to find problems for great solutions. But any of the other solved stories intoxicating with that aroma of sweet fatalism of a fantastic tale always narrated under the cadence of a delicately musical decadence, as played by some musicians from the Titanic who were perhaps the first to abandon ship ...
Doom is a prophecy that fits perfectly in an environment that is suddenly as fanciful as it is disturbing. Characters subjected to unexpected plane changes, unknown dimensions for very common feelings. Souls that flee from between the bones before the gloomy vision of a world precipitated to the abyss. A narrative collage where nonsense is the most surprising glue. A narrative gluing that ends up composing a canvas that, seen from afar, offers a lucid perspective of the deepest humanity.
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