Black Box
Rodrigo Pinto
Debut Bisam Álvaro narrative, literary critic and author of the column "The bookworm" Black box is a novel that is home to one of the possibilities of the genre, perhaps the least explored: the breakdown of how the use of unconventional structure, breaking with tradition. The easiest analogy of the title is the black box of the aircraft say it is not black, but bright yellow, the information repository that holds the key to the mystery, why and how it happened that should never have happened. But here again the mystery is elusive, the successive stories underground counterculture enshrine the history of Chile in recent decades, rock and pop with vampires and Nazis, trembling with terror adolescent identity and abyssal very specific fears.
Box Bisam black refers, without doing so explicitly, the networking world, the super fast movement of information, fashion trends, data, music, film , to all corners of the planet, and relationships that are created in that space is not territorial, non-delimited, each person who designs or manages to taste. But there are also some territorial roots, recognizable cities in Chile at times and sometimes transformed by the dream or delirium in places that burn in flames or where you can listen to the apocalyptic prophecies of a taxi way of the restaurant El Parrón, and historical, with memory coup hitting the lives of some people and, of course, the biography of all. The novel as a kaleidoscope that sometimes shows what's on the other side of the shapes you draw. The novel as a collection of stories that come together at a point outside the text. A novel, at last, written quickly and carefully, also draws on different genres, including interviews, a dictionary, monologues, stories, thirteen of twelve chapters that go back to zero and that from the headings, down another dialogue with the literature, pop music and reality shows.
Saturday, Mercurio de Chile, September 23, 2003
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