Ramponelli Alberto Alberto Ramponelli: the promise of that dream sleep there if we accept
By José María Marcos Exclusive INSOMNIA (*) María Negroni says the writer in his fantastic gallery
(Siglo XXI, 2009): "I read the literature Latin America as a drift of gothic fiction. In this corpus are contained and feverish night, in fact, all motives and obsessions that make the fantastic Latin America a new form of resistance to the prison of reason and common sense. Originally, you know, Gothic coincides with the Enlightenment and the geometries of knowledge. It is best said, his dark side, crack in the architecture of the order, opens to prevent the calcification of the meaning and hierarchy of thought. "
The published works of Alberto Ramponelli-composed of three novels and two sets of accounts, can be read from this matrix, as ominous and sinister act as nuclei of the main stories in orbs where reality is always about to crumble and the reason is but a pretext to justify the irrational, while some characters hide unspeakable crimes or, well, have a double life.
a greater or lesser extent this happens in his five books, but in the three novels can be seen more clearly.
The last fire in (2001), Ramponelli combines three classic themes: vampires, the Faustian pact and double. Accompanying a character who wants to leave behind his past and calls himself "Carlos Olmos," the story takes place in an uncertain world of fantasy created under the Circo Romero. Concealing his identity, Olmos is tempted to exist in an area where a vampire steals the memories to make themselves and thus live forever in past times. Romero is a special monster, takes advantage of the last fire of old artists, who offered the illusion of eternal youth in the sands of his circus. Olmos discover this terrible secret and faces the dilemma of delivering his past (and stop being, as we are also what we have been), or, well, face the monster and a past that still awaits.
comes in the night
(2004), the author presents the story of a girl killed during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983) and addresses the crime and impunity describing rows of chain between individual and collective. One witness (who stopped by the fault does not intervene in time) and her daughter will be marked down their lives for this murder, because no one can have a vision of hell and come out with your soul intact. So the only way to achieve some peace is justice. But who fight against the father and daughter? Ramponelli the archaic voice warns: "Witches, were called in antiquity. Bruges, also calls now. O 'mentalists'. (...). Holders of the keys that open the gates of the netherworld, knowledgeable advance of becoming, makers of calamities and misfortunes, but also of the alleged happiness (at what cost?). "
In
Notes for a biography (2009), Ramponelli run of this record, but not abandoning the Gothic look and deluded from reality, to introduce a complex character: Edward Echenique who, disguised as militant left, tries to develop a project that will transform esoteric bases in Argentina. "Phantom of ghosts, if any, Echenique is recreated by insiders, by witnesses and various speeches that, as we portray the character's personality, tell a story and the back of the world of cults, both political and esoteric operating in the shadows and we are all too familiar. Far
and manners of magical realism which seeks to pigeonhole Argentina fantasy literature in these three novels we can see that, perhaps, the best stories seem hopelessly disturbing our dreams. Because it is a literature-and again in the words of María Negroni, which leads to "improve the quality of the questions, let us, at the end of reading, with a hurtful and liberating insight: the promise that there will be sleep , provided we accept dream. "
Ironically, the originality of the work of Alberto Ramponelli late in addressing the age-old theme of fear and its opposite, desire, forging fictions uncomfortable operating in a territory that speaks to the present and enrich the best of world literature.
(*) Insomnia
No. 161. May 2011.
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