and Paris Place are the second and third volumes of the trilogy involuntary Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. I said in a previous post the enthusiasm that had produced the first title, City. Well, the rest of the trilogy to me that I'm an author interesting and I think unjustly little known, even if you have completed the first doctoral dissertation on her life and after his death in 2004 most of his books are editing. One thing to note: The site was written in 1969 and is not thirteen years later when published.
And say, why is called "involuntary" trilogy? Well it seems to be because Levrero not proposed in advance to write a trilogy, but the third title when he finished he realized he had written three books with similar themes (urban environment, solitary protagonist immersed in a world dominated by forces do not understand), so decided to call it involuntary.
The second title, the protagonist arrives at a Paris stranger, taxis filled with cobwebs and a layer of dust covering everything. The author invented in this context a series of images that grow uncontrollably in the reader's imagination. The book caused a delicious sense of strangeness.
The place fascinated me more than Paris, although I must say that Levrero maintains the highest standards throughout the trilogy. The final volume reminds The Invention of Morel of Bioy Casares. In his argument does not say anything to not destroy its great capacity to surprise. It is an intriguing story supported over the cracks left by the reality. But Levrero not provide answers to questions posed by his novels, just leave them there for the reader decide for himself, and his characters lack strong certainties.
On the back of one volume, is a quote from Oliver Levrero Coelho speaks as a writer of ghostly. I think a good definition of the effect of creating his novels, which have the atmosphere of a dream.
Only these three books, Mario Levrero I find an author to take into account. The trilogy is one of the readings that surprised me most last year. Now I have to go with an empty discourse , The light novel ...
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