Original Language: Español
Year of publication: 2025
Valoración: It’s very nice
Just 6 texts and 140 pages are more than enough for me to dare to venture that Juan Montiel is a magnificent author of stories and that this Every Monday of Aguas It should be the subject of much more attention by the media. But for that we are, to get to where others do not arrive!
With a possible fit in the generic close to rural Gothic, there are several “common places” that these stories share:
- Language, attached to Earth, which gives texts an atmosphere of another era.
- Its spatial location in places, whether closed or open, as recreational and dark as the cover image.
- The permanent presence of violence.
- the fundamental importance of physical contact and interrelation of this with the aforementioned violence.
But beyond more or less clear references, Juan Montiel’s stories stand out for:
- Language. We are not facing a vain exercise of scholarship. The stylistic bet is clear, but it is fully at the service of the texts, its atmospheres and developments.
- The management of the not said, of the gestures, the details, the looks or the barely insinuated, which are key in the plot of each and every one of the stories
- The finals, generally open, who make one turn around for a while read.
- The dark and murky atmospheres.
If I had to choose between any of the stories that make up Water MondayI would keep the initial impact of Cain ardieswith the underlying tension throughout Jarandina and with the conjunction of death and desire to Friendly.
But the other three texts, The white side of my love, every afternoon there was a party and symptoms [343], They also have a very high level and make this volume a great (although somewhat short) collection of stories. That you hadn’t heard of him? Well, we have already fixed it. Now you just have to look for it and read it, if you dare.
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/05/juan-montiel-cada-lunes-de-aguas.html
