Essay on the book: Landscapes for the battle
Landscapes after battle is a work written by Juan Goytisolo and published in 1982. Due to some of the characteristics presented below, this story is known as an experimental novel. In this, the story of a chaotic man who is immersed in a society from which he does not intend to excel, but quite the opposite is narrated, but quite the opposite. It has quite strange and sometimes disturbing hobbies. Throughout the plot it is possible to see how this character develops without cap in front of the reader in a world that ignores it. It is defined by the author himself as: ‘a pseudoautobiography grotesca’ (and appointment). At least, that was from the beginning the purpose of a book that I tried, ‘questioning me, the character, the reader’
“The argument goes to a second term;What interests is playing with the form of the story, altering its structure and language. This experimentalism vary the function of the reader, now actively participates in the interpretation of the work ”. It is only for a few paragraphs that the author, Juan Goytisolo, allows the reader to know explicitly and in a very simple way the characteristics of the main character. This is called only referring to its characteristics;One of them and probably the most used by the writer is "hero".
“A man who refuses vanity, despises the outer rules and forms of convenience, does not seek disciples, does not tolerate praises. Their qualities are demure and hidden and, to ensure them and return them even more secret, it is refocile in the practice of the despicable and unworthy: thus, it not only reconists the reprobation of theirs, but also causes their ostracism and condemnation… ”
As if it were a game, the author is allowed to make a constant emitter exchange. “There is multiplicity of views through the alternation of the voices of the characters and the narrator. (…) Free indirect style is used, the inner monologue or current of consciousness … the characters exchange place with the narrator every time the writer of the work sees it convenient. The reader of Juan Goytisolo’s work must pay attention and not only pass his eyes through the lines, because the possibility of getting lost and suddenly not knowing who heads towards him is present.
“Actually, they are not drawings or sticks, one said, but letters of those with which they write and that there is no God who understands, all reverse: he had seen them there in his land, and although he did not remember with certainty hisElusive figure, I was sure they were equal ".
"The logical and chronological structures are broken in extreme cases a chaotic structure, which faithfully reflected the disorientation of the emitter and the receiver against a meaningless world". It is at the end of the book, just on page 194 when the person is told to read landscapes after the battle does not make speculation, seek an explanation or try to order the story since this lacks importance. "Please, nothing of" experimentation "," verbal phrase "," reading levels "," linguistic purpose ". Let’s simply say the mathematicians that the order of the factors does not alter the product ".
“Destruction of the temporal linearity of the story, with techniques such as flash-back, which recovers past events, or anticipation, which advances future events. – Innovative language treatment, which is often manifested in the rupture of logic and syntax or in the recovery of avant -garde typographic games ”.
Contrary to the usual, the novel does not have an end, but it returns to the beginning, putting the character in the previous position to solve the problem with which the work begins. "With respect to the internal structure, various techniques are used, such as counterpoint (combination and interrelation of various stories the open structural approach (the novel does not consist of the outcome), etc.".
“But, after taking a walk to the bathObscene and scientific extravagances and will cause aleve, ruthless smile the initial and monstrous "catastrophe" replacing the normal spelling of the ads and signs of its neighborhood with remote and incomprehensible characters ”.
Without a doubt, it is a work capable of confusing and playing with whom he reads it without care;He walks it between situations that are not everyday in the human eye. A fairly cold and violent novel in terms of the reality used in it. It has peculiar characteristics that cause in the reader a feeling of displeasure every time an event that, usually, happens only in those distant places, within the meat of the perverts that are confused between the crowd. The reader is aware of the narrator’s purpose once the writer warns him of the purposes he has. However, it is too late, because it is close to the conclusion of landscapes after the battle.
"Care, reader: the narrator is not reliable. Under a torn appearance of frankness and honesty- while multiplying the mea guilt and charges against himself – he does not stop fooling you in an instant. Its strategy is defensive, aimed at wrapping in a cloud of ink, multiplies the alleged confessions to hide the essential ”.
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