time ago I read, I do not remember where, that a significant percentage of contemporary English novels had as main ingredient someone died or were set in the Civil War. This novel by Juan Jose Millas belongs to the percentage remaining.
"One morning you wake up and realize that it is too late for everything," read one of your pages. The narrative focuses on characters and Alvaro Luz perhaps April. Álvaro gives or teaches in a writing workshop is now offering a new service: the writing of biographies on request. The enigmatic Luz contracts its services to Álvaro write his biography, a biography that, like all of us understand of course, is full of truths and lies, what we were but also what we only dared to imagine and finally not occur. On leaving the workshop, José María Luz knows, who wears a patch over his right eye because he wants to write a novel left-handed, and for this you must first see how see the world from that perspective.
The narrator tells the story in first person, even if it is discovered walking the pages, at first it seems that everything is narrated in third. The fourth character, the narrator, is being documented to write a book about adoption. As Álvaro April knows, their history is linking with Alvaro and Light.
The novel is written in a simple, colloquial, with a proximity to orality been easy. Two women in Prague mi come to show us that our lives are a mixture consisting of fact and fiction, warns us of the importance of things we imagine and did not become. The unlived life is almost as much weight as the real:
"I thought then that each of us carries within a" what not ", ie something that has not happened and yet more weight in your life that "yes," what has happened. (...) Many of the mothers who had delivered their babies had a mother false after a happy life (...) but the most important of all child was "no." Everyone has a wound that festers a "what not" no "so yes, by extraordinary it is, manages to stitch."
Miller managed to weave stories capable of catching the daily reader. The theme of fatherhood is very much in the novel as well as the mix between reality and fiction. I noticed a sentence: "It did not seem credible in fiction, yet it had happened in reality." And sometimes, you do not know if I passed, hear or read a story or something so surprising to us that, if invented, no one would. Moreover, Two women in Prague Spring won the Novel Prize in 2002.
"One morning you wake up and realize that it is too late for everything," read one of your pages. The narrative focuses on characters and Alvaro Luz perhaps April. Álvaro gives or teaches in a writing workshop is now offering a new service: the writing of biographies on request. The enigmatic Luz contracts its services to Álvaro write his biography, a biography that, like all of us understand of course, is full of truths and lies, what we were but also what we only dared to imagine and finally not occur. On leaving the workshop, José María Luz knows, who wears a patch over his right eye because he wants to write a novel left-handed, and for this you must first see how see the world from that perspective.
The narrator tells the story in first person, even if it is discovered walking the pages, at first it seems that everything is narrated in third. The fourth character, the narrator, is being documented to write a book about adoption. As Álvaro April knows, their history is linking with Alvaro and Light.
The novel is written in a simple, colloquial, with a proximity to orality been easy. Two women in Prague mi come to show us that our lives are a mixture consisting of fact and fiction, warns us of the importance of things we imagine and did not become. The unlived life is almost as much weight as the real:
"I thought then that each of us carries within a" what not ", ie something that has not happened and yet more weight in your life that "yes," what has happened. (...) Many of the mothers who had delivered their babies had a mother false after a happy life (...) but the most important of all child was "no." Everyone has a wound that festers a "what not" no "so yes, by extraordinary it is, manages to stitch."
Miller managed to weave stories capable of catching the daily reader. The theme of fatherhood is very much in the novel as well as the mix between reality and fiction. I noticed a sentence: "It did not seem credible in fiction, yet it had happened in reality." And sometimes, you do not know if I passed, hear or read a story or something so surprising to us that, if invented, no one would. Moreover, Two women in Prague Spring won the Novel Prize in 2002.
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