Rosario Tijeras (Spanish)
by Jorge Franco
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Author: Jorge FrancoEdition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Published: 2004-01-06
ISBN: 1583226125
Number of pages: 165
Publisher: Siete Cuentos
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Book Review: Colombia real, no imaginada
Summary: 5 Stars
En la era post Cien Años de Soledad y el boom de realismo mágicoen que se agruparon muchos después del clásico de Gabriel García
Márquez, una nueva generación de escritores colombianos - Mario
Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, Jorge Franco, y otros - nos devuelven
una Colombia reconocible. Nos presentan a los colombianos
actuales en medio de la cruda realidad vivida dentro y fuera del
país, y que por momentos no pareciera tener fin. Quieren retratar
a Colombia como es, no cómo nos la imaginamos. Rosario Tijeras,
de Jorge Franco, es una historia tejida con el hilo de un tema
universal y tratado mil veces, que intenta reinar sobre los
breves silencios que permiten las balas y sobre el sabor a
muerte: el amor. Hay momentos en que el lector no sabrá si llorar
o reir y, es posible que como yo, termine haciendo ambas cosas.
El libro se lee de una o dos sentadas, pues una vez que empezamos
no queremos soltarlo. El autor, joven de la nueva generación
influenciada por los elementos audiovisuales y quien estudió
cinematografía, ha sabido añadirle ese elemento a su obra. De ser
traducida a la pantalla la realidad que pinta el autor, la
película basada en la obra que se filma en Medellín al momento de
escribir esta nota, será un éxito tan rotundo como el libro.
Summary of Rosario Tijeras (Spanish)
"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed.From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio, the narrator, waits to learn if she will recover. Through him, we reconstruct the friendship between the two, her love story with Emilio, and her life as a hitwoman.
Rosario Tijeras has been recognized as an admirable continuation of a literary subject that was first treated by Gabriel García Márquez and then by Fernando Vallejo. A work in the Latin American social realist tradition, the story of Rosario Tijeras is told in fast and vibrant prose, and poetic flourish.
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