OCTOBER THERE IS NOT WONDERS. AUTHOR: OSWALDO REYNOSO. The value of this novel is in which it shows us the life in the capital of Peru, its reality emaciated and fries, through its personages and experiences in the dwelled month (october), traditional for the Limeans and in general for the Peruvians inasmuch as it is during him who pays tribute to the Lord of the
Miracles (wonders). During its diverse passages we can notice the
social fights, great negotiated the not always clean ones, the dirt of the Creole policy and the so dissimilar
life of the elegant districts and the quarters. The work is framed during the governments of Odría, Belaúnde, Velasco, Morales, García... but is almost the repeated history of the breaches between rich
poor men and who determine the "modus vivendi" (life way) of the Peruvians. It is developed Lima, at the time of the 60. Peru crossed difficult times for the poor men. The marginalized class, that lived a stage on tugurización and misery deposited its pains on the feet of the Brown Christ (el Señor Moreno), of who they waited for miracles that fixed their lives. Dot with diverse words customs of the time and the social inequalities. Everything seems to converge to the accomplishment of the procession of the Lord of the Miracles and to the fact that many believers wait for favors of the Brown Christ that by the complexity of the life, will not be made. Corolario of unequal fights is the moral decline of a "rich gay group" the death of a marginal boy at hands of the police, facts that remember us that we must live with attachment to moral convention and to be consequent that we have what we deserve. To prepare to us and to fight will give better life us. They are the two families who dominate the scene and whose around the facts, the
family of Mr. Manuel and the Colmenares family follow one another. The universe of the secondary personages is given by the friends of the Colmenares boys and the son of Mr. Manuel,
people who somehow surround to Mr. Manuel and Mr. Lucho, the neighbors and others. The adolescents and young people protagonists of the work of Reynoso, are people of elementary conscience who perviven in gangs, colleras or bands, whose essential preoccupation is sex badly understood and worse lived than it generates emptiness and feelings of culpability. They are those that of some form direct the activities towards the outcome. Don Manuel, because its vice returns it vulnerable and incapable to think about its resemblances, single lives for himself and being able to do much by poor men, not does it, Don Lucho, personage pusilánime, that does not fight by its family with the impetus that had, does not guide its children properly and the life of his fami lia is whipped by the tragedy. The book has defined characteristics between which we can indicate its manifest testimony social, its marxist-leninist perspective, realism, colloquial introspection and the fact to want to vindicate marginal minorities and to the black community. The critical journalists were implacable at the time of judging this novel to which they did not consider kindness him, they labeled it as immoral, irreverent, provoking and until pornographic and they did not recognize merits of bottom and form to him that doubtlessly has them. The book is innovating in the technical-structural thing from the language and as far as his thematic one, it introduces the youthful speech and the slang, just like the inner monólogo, has the boarded merit of having subjects like the homosexuality(gays) in a "machista"(men) and hypocritical society. It produces in the reader a feeling of surprise by the squalor of the life of some groups, punishes and culpability not to do something by them, being able to do it..
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