The atmosphere of profound truth that permeates the pages of The seed anger Trivedi novel Consuelo Anzola published two years ago on the life and times of José María Vargas Vila, has led me to resume my old lawsuit with the historical novel: what makes the works of this subgenre We prove true or false? Because I think that depends not only on the experience and literary talent, or that the writer is girded or not the historical truth, since the novel does not compete with the truth of history or science. I usually catch a few times since this type of novels, especially those manufactured in our time, but when you have convinced me, I have been overwhelmed by the persuasiveness of the story, as recently happened to me with The seed of anger before with and I, Claudius, The Ides of March, Memoirs of Hadrian I, the supreme, The General in His Labyrinth, and, of course, the biggest of all, War and peace.
course, credibility is essential to achieving that any novel can be convinced of its truth, and must be embodied in a tone, a style, a point of view and a particular time management. But to believe in the intrinsic truth of the historical novel, which in a nutshell is the vision and emotion of the writer, there must be something fundamental and prior to any technicality, all literature, and is the patience and the ability of the author to make history and characters in their own experience in autobiographical experience, memory and forgetting, as I wanted Rilke. Only then from that I vicariously has taken another being, another time and another culture, and only from there is where there is the aura of truth in any authentic historical novel. On the contrary, and although the historical accuracy and literary masters attending the writer, the work can sonarnos false or at least doubtful. So just as there is no poetry real novel, one can say that there is no real historical novel autobiographical experience, without taking intimate character of his time and culture, as in life same. This is what Tolstoy did for decades, Graves, Wilder, Yourcenar, Roa Bastos and García Márquez to forge their paradigmatic works. It is what it has done recently with Consuelo Trivedi Anzola seed of anger.
Studious and passionate of modernism, the Colombian writer, was for more than twenty years soaking up the life, work and the time of his compatriot Jose Maria Vargas Vila, the "bright pastor of storms", as he called his friend Ruben Dario. First he made his doctoral thesis on his huge work, then went to Cuba to dust off their newspapers and later published a selection in Colombia. Between lectures, classes and saturating the character introductions followed, his work and his Modernist period, until one day he got tired and forgot. Or so she thought, since forgetting is not just another form of memory, perhaps the most vaunted and deep. And so it came years after the first chapter of the seed of anger and then the next, to form a world as autonomous, seductive and true, that over time these memories Angry Divine, lived vicariously by Consuelo Trivedi Anzola, may be as the best novel of Vargas Vila and one of the best works written and narrated by Colombian and Latin American literature. The
seed of anger. Trivedi Consuelo Anzola. Seix Barral. Bogotá, 2008. Dasso Saldivar (Colombia, Antioquia, 1951) is the author of Gabriel García Márquez. The trip to the seed (Folio, 2006) Review appeared in
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