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Through a different lens
Chapter 7 of the novel Casi Perfecto [Almost Perfect]


by Marina Mayoral

You'll be asking yourself why I'm talking about things that don't seem to have anything to do with your father's death.
I'm doing it because I think they have got something to do with it, and because they're the very things that could change the way you view the facts.
You were there, you lived through it as I did, and yet your perception of what happened is different from mine – you saw in it a repetition of something that I had written years before, and came to the conclusion that I was following an old script …


La versión completa del relato se encuentra en la antología
Scrittori d'Europa 2007 (Bonanno Editore, Acireale-Roma, 2007)

 
 
   
editorial

A pesar de que, de vez en cuando, profetas fáciles, para los que no es extraña la necesidad de montar casos mediáticos, están preparados para decretar el final de la novela, ésta no deja de apasionarnos y asombrarnos con su capacidad inagotable de narrar el accidentado camino del hombre hacia la modernidad. Contribuyen a hacerlo vivo no sólo los escritores europeos, con su tradición consolidada, y los escritores norteamericanos, que se han anclado a esta tradición, sino también escritores de partes del mundo que hoy nos interesan más que nunca: africanos, indios, israelíes, libaneses, paquistanos, sudamericanos, etc… Sus novelas son preciosas puertas abiertas sobre realidades desconocidas, sobre diferentes culturas y pueblos, porque la novela [...continúa]
 
 

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