Ricardo Garibay was a literary avalanche who only exceeded his ego and temper. Sandro Cohen once described him as "a singular writer in Mexico and the world. It is a figure without which means Mexican literature of the twentieth century is a crucial link in our narrative. "
This description of the" Hemingway Mexicano "is evident in reading The house burns night , a novel which has Eleazar's history, young Adonis orphan since childhood is known beautiful. Eleazar gets, thanks to her beauty, growing amount of benefits among women brothel, alcohol and sun of the border.
At 20 Eleazar and is master of El Charco, a brothel 4 inputs to give the impression of being bigger inside than outside. Surrounded by loose women living difficult, sticky sweat and power games, where Eleazar is accomplished through the control of El Charco simply goes away.
The novel begins at precisely the moment when he returned seven years later. Eleazar is still handsome, still the "Papuchia" but its beauty is covered with dust and pains, weight of a life bent over and the midwife is so finished as the house where he spent the days following his childhood.
And among all this mud Eleazar reunited with Sara.
The house on fire at night is a bound book. This book immerses us in a frontier world, desert, dry and lonely in the day but at night comes alive in flashes that make a long line of patrons passed through its four doors, an allegory of man seeking pleasure the four cardinal points.
Garibay manages to construct characters that transcend their own pages to build three-dimensional, whole, whose natural language and human projects. The story unfolds in the land of no one who was (and remains) the Mexican border scorched dust and heat molded to the arenas.
Reading is easy and gives the reader. If Garibay said that writing is like owning a beautiful woman (with the natural reluctance of a beautiful woman but with their enthusiasm and taste) the reading of his novel is more like the style of the prostitutes, were up slightly, wrap and satisfying.
Its wording is somewhat experimental, it is usually hyphenated novel yet from time to time there are pieces of dramatic dialogues. This style chameleon also corresponds to the changing nature of those women whose name is always the one you like who consumes (and consume).
In the dunes of the lyrics, little by little, the north wind is discovering the literature.
Garibay, Ricardo, 1971 (edition 1995). The house on fire at night, Mexico: Joaquin Mortiz, Serie del Volador.
