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black box, density

Álvaro Bisam a friend read it is heard without fear of cruelty in the narrative. An idiot of thirty-something trend-on what to read this column and his first novel Black Box. A black box is indestructible recording of what happens in the cabin of the airplane and the only thing that can be recovered alive from a crashed plane, the black box does not contain all the stories of passengers but only the technical instructions the plane and can be used to reconstruct the last moments of the pilots alive. If the plane does not crash, the black box is not important: the plane arrives, passengers get off, climb the other and the black box is reset to zero, as if it has another function rather than being the witness a tragedy that has not happened. More than the idea of \u200b\u200bholding a record of actions, a record of the stories, Black Box - the only novel Bisam (I think, and our correspondent and friend, will confirm) - contains an atmosphere of destruction air disaster, the certainty of the last minutes or seconds alive. The many stories contained in the novel are united in the same climate of Nazi teachers, the film stars of zombies, vampires and class B movies Chilean pop musicians persecuted by his own fans who find the rationale and instructions for making satanic rituals, stories about possible worlds are over, black holes with human feelings (but occupies one or two lines, the idea of \u200b\u200ba black hole that swallows entire worlds and universes and melancholy is so powerful that I can not stop thinking about that.) Since I started reading Black Box and build on this idea of \u200b\u200bstories about stories without worrying about building a network drama that or a narrative containing more or less firm, I could not stop thinking about life: directions for use of Georges Perec. At some point, of course without the theoretical and conceptual claims Perec in Life, Black Box triumphs where life fails. life: directions for use very extensive is a novel which describes the life of the inhabitants of a building in Paris, not just of people but of the history of each of the objects that inhabit that building more to be inhabited by people seems to be inhabited by descriptions, in a kind of perfect natural science-the first Wittgenstein. The idea of \u200b\u200bpuzzle pieces a more difficult puzzle of Commons - it has pieces that can fit perfectly anywhere in the puzzle - articulated, at some point, the novel but, however, never goes beyond the admiration of certain technical virtuosity of the strategy Perec's, however, fails to create a demarcation that creates random merely live in the same building. In Black Box, this does not happen, it contains all these stories is a certain tradition of stories, a tradition of science fiction, Satanism, appeal to the bizarre (such as crossing the Bolivian zombies streets Santiago on one of the many movies, or serving as mentally retarded zombie films class B). Denies that tradition, I get the feeling, the narrative clear, construction of a story that has causes and effects to worry about describing the result of something that no matter how it happened (after some time to read Dick is clear what matters is something else, not how it comes to drug X, that no matter what the world is gone, who pressed the button, what matters is what happens when this last survivor is going through a dusty desert town. ) But that same denial of the plot as the main attraction of the story is what constitutes the fabric of Black Box, because if there is something black box is not one, but at least twenty basic scenes of science fiction could you summon twenty novels? Probably yes, but the twenty detonators of history, twenty made mainly sci-fi drama lose, the atmosphere of air tragedy that contains a black box is now looking into the Atlantic.
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