- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: St. Martin's Press; Auflage: Reprint (März 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312270976
- ISBN-13: 978-0312270971
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 14 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.795.194 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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It seems fitting for a man being heralded as heir to García Márquez and other Latin American godheads of postmodern circuitousness that the namesake of David Toscana's English debut, Tula Station, is the central image and fulcrum of not only the novel but also any criticism that may be made of it. As the town of Tula's fortune ultimately resides in the government's decision of whether or not to include it on the railway line, so does the book's success depend upon the reader's willingness to separate its three narratives so that they become more than coincidental echoes of one another.
Supposedly culled by Toscana from the manuscript of Froylán Gómez, long considered dead, Tula Station continues to toy with the hazy realm between fact and fiction. Gómez is paid to write the biography of Juan Capistrán, the bastard orphan of Tula. Capistrán spends his life in pursuit of the affections of the beautiful, elusive Carmen as well as validation from the town of the once-prosperous Tula. Preoccupied with its ultimate standing in history's eyes, the town goes to great lengths to leave its mark, including this amusing attempt to be the most populous city and therefore the capital:
How many more do we need? One hundred? Three hundred? And nobody can die. That is Dr. Isunza's responsibility. I, one of them said, am going right home, and in nine months, I will provide another Tulteco. All applauded and drank to expanding their families. Well, I couldn't even if I wanted to, señores, because my wife is already in menopause. Then marry off your daughters. And the men left the casino and headed home, ready to eliminate the cold showers, half acts and the not-todays.Capistrán and the town itself quickly emerge as likable underdogs, thanks to Toscana's loving attention to quirky details. Gómez, on the other hand, requires a bit more patience if one is to see something larger in the selfish rejection of his established life for the pursuit of yet another mysterious Carmen. The same can occasionally be said for the overall novel itself, cutting quickly back and forth between Gómez and Capistrán's related journeys. But what is intended as harmony can descend into a temporary cacophony for anyone who is less than patient. Toscana supplies the story's cords, but is up to the reader to elevate them to chords. --Bob Michaels -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Writing in a fusion of styles and variously indebted to Julio Cortazar, the young Carlos Fuentes, and Umberto Eco, Mexican novelist Toscana has created a text that is as intriguing as it is convoluted. A young would-be novelist, Froylan Gomez, is approached by an old man, Juan Capistran, who claims to be Froylan's grandfather and proposes that Froylan write Capistran's life story. When a hurricane devastates the town of Tula and evidently kills Froylan, Froylan's wife asks Toscana himself to edit and publish the manuscript. (Toscana continues to show up in the text, both as a character and in his editorial footnotes.) But is Froylan really dead, or has he taken advantage of the hurricane to escape his marriage and run away with a mysterious woman named Carmen? Capistran, it seems, had convinced Froyl n to seek out the reincarnation of the love of his life, also Carmen. Froylan finds Carmen number two (at a public reading from this text) and records both his life and that of the old man in the novel/biography/diary that Toscana has been asked to edit. All of this takes place in the mountain town of Tula, once a bustling city, but now bypassed by the railways and time itself, and inhabited by eccentrics who refuse to accept the metric system, among other quirks. Multiple endings, an introduction that is in fact a conclusion, recursive narrative twists, a cast of oddball characters who occasionally function as critics of the text in which they appear, plus the atmosphere of the doomed town itself make this a subtle and thought-provoking--if occasionally frustrating--novel. (Jan.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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