Original Language: Español
Year of publication: 2025
Valoración: Advisable
What is achieved Infarction. At the superficial level, delivers a well -narrated story and characters that, without being excessively complex or memorable, are properly profiled and are nice despite their many defects. However, Edson Lechuga’s novel also delivers a different literary experience, to which the plasticity of its structure, rhythm and prose gives a genuine charm.
Their approach is simple: at dawn, a group of people go in a minibus on their way to their respective works when two armed men assault them. The robbery will cause two passengers, from lives until then, decide to stand up, which will end in a spiral of violence.
There are several aspects that I would highlight above all in the novel:
- Prose: intense, expressive, prone to the use of very well implemented stylistic resources (the oral registry full of Mexicanisms, the lack of capital letters, the narration in the second person, the constant repetition of words, passages or ideas …).
- The structure: although initially does not allow the main argument to flow, as many “flashbacks” and rewriting of previously viewed scenes splashed, not only to build the protagonists, but also gives a fed up texture interesting to the chapters.
- The stage: it portrays with great success Ecatepec, a marginal neighborhood, poor violent and dangerous (which “is not the ass of the world, but the grain sup for the ass of the world”), and Mexico (“everyone knows that in this jelly country denounce a crime is the same as throwing a fart: / all smell it but nobody investigates who was the funny one”), as well as the way in which both contexts mold their inhabitants.
- His humor: black and acid, when he hits it, to the point that I have laughed several times from lettuce occurrences.
On the least positive side of this novel I would point out the following:
- Reiteration: although it is deliberate, it is very successful and plotly integrated in the whole, it becomes heavy reread for the same time the same passage.
- The climax: although we are anticipated from the beginning, we do not definitely reach it until they give many rodeos, so when we finally do it feels somewhat abrupt and frustrating.
In summary: Infarction It is a moderately original and extremely expressive novel, whose structure, rhythm, colloquial language, humor and violence vaguely remember those of a movie by Quentin Tarantino.
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/04/edson-lechuga-infarto.html
