LOVE, DEVOID LOVE...
The psychological, police romance, “the
LOVE do not have feelings”, is a book of Raymond Carrero, a Brazilian writer who was awarded already (Jabuti of 2000). In the plot a
crazy musician decides, in its maximum delirium, to kill his mother and sister, with who he kept incestuous relations. A well dosed mixture of sex and religion. According to the author, in the north-eastern, where everything occurs, the question of the violence is always associated with religion. In accordance with himself, Matheus (its protagonist) “comes from the hunter, of the evangelic Matheus, and even so he loses the “h” when he starts to render crazy. Even his name changes, because the name is a basic thing in a character. A wrong name ruins the character. The title of the book is excellent in its context. In this in case, “it is born from the lovelessness in the house, because we live in the house, we have the house as a standard of living. Observe well: Biba, Matheus, Dolores and Ernesto hate and love each other in the place where only love should exist". The author (for whom “all love is egoistic and that can never be good") justifies the combination of
madness and
religion saying that "those people I knew in my childhood were, at the same time, insane and religious… For having lived in the archaic hinterland, “I knew many people in batina and I helped to celebrate many mass. In Latin. This archaism leads to the permanent madness of Matheus, a comrade whom looks to deny or to affirm what it made, but only to save himself. His madness is in a project of salvation, in order to find a solution for these extraordinary problems that he lives, between which to have killed his mother and sister...". The author speaks skillfully the language of the crazy people. For this reason, his
work was nicknamed of
romance on madness, To build the romance, Carrero searched two great literary genius, Dom Quixote of Cervantes and Raskolnikov of Dostoiévski. His workship is based in a non-edipian concept: boy is abandoned by his parents at birth, is raised by his aunt and spends the rest of his life looking for a way to patch the parts of a family that was neve his, in a way that isn''t possible... " In contrast to the psychoanalysis - where the patient goes back to his past and (in theory) returns fortified, the return only narrow the bows with tragedy, exploiting the insane''s world". Complicated? He himself explains: “I am very impressed with madness, that is a recurrent subject in my work, because I don''t see lucidity in any place. My "literary family" distresses me much. And, although the tragic image of the first chapter, the writer wanted to make of this his lighter book. But of a hard slightness, nourished by the humanity with whom it impregnated all traces of Matheus, thus to alliviate his personal trajectory. "I was the crazy one, needed to keep the control when madness arrived…” The work of Carrero proclaims the hypocrisy of the social relations in the familiar microuniverse, many times, for some lack of love, or a perverse way to reveal himself. In reality, it discloses the great contradictory of love, its distortion and its proper absence. The essence of madness is in the true lovelessness. One more time, Raymond Carrero hatchs, amuses, provokes reflections.
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