REMEMBER THE SCORPION: New novel by Isaac Goldemberg The Peruvian poet narrated and Isaac Goldemberg (Chepén, 1945) deals with the detective genre with his novel Remember the scorpion, published by the Publishing Fund Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima, a novel that will be released within the next Ricardo Palma Book Fair on 25 October, the act of which will inform you in due course. Goldemberg recently been interviewed by Eduardo Corrales IBLNEWS. While we reproduce the text, you can also read the interview http://iblnews.com/story/57674 Isaac Goldemberg taken by assault the police genre with his novel scorpion Remember 18/09/2010 EDUARDO CORRALES, IBLNEWS
After more than three decades of maturation and after carving out a solid reputation in the world of American letters, the narrator and the Peruvian poet Isaac Goldemberg (Chepén, 1945) has met his early ambition to write a crime novel and has been translated under the title
Remember the scorpion .
The author of Life installment of Don Jacobo Lerner "the removal of the nail" (said in Peru) with a story that explores, in his own words-"the dark corners of human nature."
of "a work delirious parody, effectively" bringing together all the stereotypes of the genre and pays homage to its predecessors, both in literature and film, has labeled the Mexican writer Margo Glantz's first novel Black Goldemberg.
For its part, the narrator and essayist Mempo Guardinelli talks about the plot of
Remember the scorpion as "juicy and fascinating"
The work presented in the lead roles of two officers of the Investigative Police of Peru: Captain and Lieutenant Simon Weiss Kathon Kanashiro.
"I chose the two detectives were a Jew and a Japanese is also a Japanese mestizo" because I was interested in exploring the relationship between two individuals of ethnic minorities who have somehow had a lot of prejudice in Peru "he reveals.
At the beginning of the story, both characters have been commissioned to investigate the murders are a Japanese victims in a pool hall and an old Jew in a pension, the two establishments located in downtown Lima.
A persistent image In the beginning, Goldenberg - who lives in New York since 1964 - made in 1977 a trip to Lima, whose purpose was to collect data for a novel. In the course of the investigation, "she says encountered (perhaps in the newspaper Ultima Hora), with news of the murder of the owner of a popular restaurant.
Although the details and the precise circumstances of the case faded with the passage of time, "for some reason, reading that story was drawn in my mind the image of Japanese in a pool and crucified on one of the tables; that image mysteriously haunted me all these years " says.
But the store of raw materials of the fiction of treasured Godemberg another image, which - once rescued, dusted and value-would serve to weave the fabric.
This image was "a hanging" an old Jew in a pension from the center of Lima, pension really existed, but not the name that appears in the novel, and I frequented a lot of child " noted.
"Then, without knowing how these two images became part of a historical space and time defined: the Second World War, which would help me to explore certain aspects of human behavior" says.
The action takes place over six days, starting on June 2, 1970, date on which the Peruvian soccer was measured with Bulgaria in Mexico '70 World Cup. Two days earlier, on May 31, a deadly and destructive earthquake had shaken dramatically Lima and north of the country.
"The paralysis suffered by Lima's earthquake and football matches played by the Peruvian team, was the ideal scenario, half ghost, to act the characters of my story," she says.
noir Relatives in a Gothic city The sleaze, cynicism and violence, with some kitsch touch have traditionally been some of the useful tools to delve into the mechanisms of individual behavior and social processes, especially from emerging and existing noir from the decade of the 30s and 50s of last century.
"There is a certain kinship between
Remember the scorpion and black genre novels written at that time," he admits. "In my novel, for example, there is a predilection for dark, half-deaf, and situations prevailing corruption and violence."
At this level, the stage itself as the story unfolds it becomes a kind of protagonist, Lima appears as a dark city full of shadows, "a little Gothic."
"At the same time, the novel presents characters-especially the captain Weiss-as individuals traumatized by his past, that is psychologically defeated and torn between good and evil," relates the author of
time to time (1984 .)
"Also, in the novel-to be a police-mingle romantic passion and hatred, love and desire, forgiveness and revenge," he adds.
And since the character of a romantic melodrama, the author inserted the popular-music, waltzes and boleros as part of the story being told.
The soundtrack includes pipe dream and the commoner (both classic tunes composed by the bard Pinglo Peruvian Felipe Alva) and boleros, lyrics and music monuments erected to the glory of despair and abandonment-Love blind, insane and Lost Love Heart .
"At some point of these songs serve as a backdrop to the plot and explain and complement what the characters feel, illustrates.
Is gender a child? For the author of Man of Paso / Just Passing Through (1981), the fact that the detective novel to enjoy great popularity does not make the kind in 'minor'. "Suffice it to mention, going back to nineteenth-century writers who have practiced this kind as important as Edgar Allan Poe, GK Chesterton or Arthur Conan Doyle," he says.
in time and space closest quoted Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Rodolfo Walsh, and among contemporaries mentions Mempo Giardinelli, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Ricardo Piglia, James Ellroy and Roberto Saviano.
Although Latin American literature has a long tradition of police-narrative in its various aspects, and from before until after Bolaño Borges, "the Peruvian literature samples do not match the dimensions of other countries Gender is growing more widespread.
"Certainly the number of crime novels in Peru can not be compared with countries such as Mexico, Argentina and Cuba, but rather nurtured is a list that goes from writers such as Jorge Salazar, to Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Calderon Fajardo, to Santiago Roncagliolo, to quote one of the newest "he says. Goldemberg
confesses that except
Who Killed Palomino Molero?, de Vargas Llosa, has not read-yet-no other Peruvian police novel. "It is precisely now that I'm dedicating myself to read them. I've wanted to do before to not" contaminate " or thematically or stylistically, since for several years had planned to venture into this genre. "
In White Night, the latest novel by Ricardo Piglia, one of the characters, Croce, released:" The novels resolved elegance or brutality crimes for readers to stay calm. "
" Regarding
Remember the scorpion, I'd say that the resolution of crimes but rather to serve readers are uneasy, to reflect on prejudice , genocide, abuse of power, and inefficiency, often, law and justice, "he says.
