En vida
Autor: Haroldo Conti
Número de Páginas: 214
Narrates the disagreement between the individual and his context, a city that becomes alien, hostile. Walking it, traveling on its buses and trains, getting confused with the crowd, wandering aimlessly, is longing for an idyllic time in which childhood and the country air become a corrosive melancholy. The streets are the same as the possessed Arltians walked decades ago. But unlike those, neither Oreste nor his wine cronies, the dawn and brawls envision a cause, a plot. Rather given over to the fall, they bask on the slope. Without compassion, Conti portrays both the city and its marginalized, Those beings who land losers in a lousy office in Pasaje Barolo, in the bowling alleyways of Bajo and in the ranches near the river. A typical gesture of the fiction of the time (the 60s, the 70s) consists of validating what is told from what has been lived: hard jobs, wanderings, militancies seem to grant more importance to what is written. In Conti's case, that experience is there. However, it is not in the autobiographical where he puts the accent. An accomplice witness, he accompanies the losers in their little abjects and nocturnal solidarity. If eroticism hints at in the blink of an...
