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El pasado (2003)

by Alan Pauls

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A stunning tale of love gone bad: passion, obsession, sex, and cocaine, all in excess--riveting from start to finish. R#65533;mini splits up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Sof#65533;a. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine. Sof#65533;a, however, finds herself unable to let go, and continues to reappear on R#65533;mini’s horizon. As hard as R#65533;mini tries to forget, Sof#65533;a will not let him. Though the apparently idyllic relationship is over, their love has not died, merely taken on a different form. As time passes and their paths continue to cross, the past festers and torments them, like an infection. Told through a series of flashbacks, this complex and multi-layered novel is a stunning achievement, bringing to mind the works of Nabokov and Proust, while critics have also alluded to Philip Roth and Martin Amis.… (more)
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Novela de gente ligeramente desquiciada, que huye de su pasado o elige escarbar en él, cada vez más profundamente; y ligeramente cobarde, incapaz de afrontar sus fantasmas o romper sus ataduras. Pero estas debilidades están presentes en los personajes apenas un poco más, quizá, que en nosotros: son reales, no caricaturas de la flaqueza humana; podríamos ser nosotros si la vida nos hubiese tratado un poco distinto. El Pasado tiene una sabiduría camuflageada por el morbo de narrar la caída en picada de sus protagonistas, y una prosa exquisita. ( )
  jorgearanda | Mar 23, 2012 |
El protagonista de la novela, Rimini, pierde su pasado al romper su relacion con Sofia, con la que ha compartido doce anos y que lo ha acompanado desde la adolescencia. Al principio Rimini se fuerza al olvido, resistiendose a los intentos de Sofia por recordar su tiempo juntos, enredandose en historias amorosas y sumergiendose en su trabajo de traductor. Poco a poco empieza a olvidar los lenguajes que constituyen su trabajo, y sus relaciones sociales y de pareja se deterioran sin remedio. Rimini solo alcanzara la posibilidad de recuperacion cuando acepte que su pasado es su presente, cuando se enfrente a todo lo que ha olvidar, hacia el final del libro, cuando el lector casi a perdido su interes por terminarlo y cuando el personaje se ha convertido en un ser patetico y ridiculo. Aunque el libro tiene algunos momentos memorables, Rimini es un personaje que despierta poca simpatia y cuya 'vida interior' es monotona y superficial, dado que es la figura central de la novela esta acaba resultando demasiado larga y no muy interesante. Una novel ambiciosa que resulta un poco aburrida. ( )
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A stunning tale of love gone bad: passion, obsession, sex, and cocaine, all in excess--riveting from start to finish. R#65533;mini splits up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Sof#65533;a. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine. Sof#65533;a, however, finds herself unable to let go, and continues to reappear on R#65533;mini’s horizon. As hard as R#65533;mini tries to forget, Sof#65533;a will not let him. Though the apparently idyllic relationship is over, their love has not died, merely taken on a different form. As time passes and their paths continue to cross, the past festers and torments them, like an infection. Told through a series of flashbacks, this complex and multi-layered novel is a stunning achievement, bringing to mind the works of Nabokov and Proust, while critics have also alluded to Philip Roth and Martin Amis.

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