Original Language: Español
Year of publication: 2025
Valoración: Between Romendable and okay
The editorial world and its things. Serve this book as an example: an appreciable novel, of a Spanish author, which turns out that it is published by an Argentine publishing house. The world upside down (or the watches, which Cortázar would say).
Be that as it may, the case is that The endless story It is a Dostoevskian novel on alcohol addiction and on the effects that it causes in the protagonist himself and in everything that surrounds. Wow, a little like the fictional version of vinegar, recently reviewed by these parts!
Narrated in the first person by Gerardo, the text is a continuous self -destructive spiral in which moments of anguish and moments of euphoria are combined, a delusional tragicomedy (in the sense of relative to a person who delights) but firmly anchored, unfortunately, in reality.
Among the most prominent aspects of the novel, it is worth mentioning:
- Gerardo, its protagonist. Well -built and developed character, credible and with whom the author avoids falling into maniqueisms or hyperboles. In that sense, I like that the author does not judge, do not accuse and not victimize Gerardo.
- The Patetism of the Tabernary Underworld, with its losers, brothers -in -law, jetas and other animals
- Your possible “social” reading. And is that … why does alcohol remain socially accepted (and even exalted by some descent from whose name I don’t want to remember)?
Peeeeeero, not everything will be pink. One is a bit of Tiquisiquis and that first person chosen by the author to carry the voice of the narrative does not finish convincing me at all. While its use in the final part of the novel seems to me a successful decision, its use in the first part is somewhat shocking.
I understand its use as an attempt to achieve greater identification, closeness or involvement by the reader, but I do not finish quadling so much detail in the memory, so much poetry or so much lucidity amid such huge drunkenness.
Despite this, the final sensation that leaves the reading of The endless story It is favorable and takes me, again, at the beginning of the review, to those doubts that sometimes one has about the functioning of the world. Anyway, doctors have the Church. Or so they say …
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/08/eva-maria-medina-la-historia-sin-fin.html
