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A House for Mr. Biswas - VS Naipaul 21 days

was a long time without reading a book so good.

Naipaul takes us calmly, without assumptions, without extreme emotion, through the life of Mohun Biswas, who was born marked by misfortune and ready to mark those around him with misfortune (at least in his childhood)

A House for Mr. Biswas is the slow run, but worrying, a life full of deprivation and poor in times of happiness ... as any real life.

Mohun Biswas, the main character ends up struggling against poverty in Trinidad at a time when such poverty is the rule in the island, like any country (or island) of the third world. Starting at birth in the largest of the misery, sad childhood with a mother marked by the nature of the martyr, who is happy to do a review miserable of their own failings and shortcomings that make their children go. Mr. Biswas adolescence is not so, because before we can have a real relationship with a girl, becomes involved in a whirlwind of obligations as married almost compliant with Shama ignorance Tulsi, who became his companion his martyrdom and his indifference companion for the rest of his life.

attend from the beginning to the certainty of the death of Mr. Biswas, and thereby eliminating the possibility of playing with our feelings in a cruel and ruthless and the author has only begun to describe the misery, not only the character principal, but an immigrant people (of India in majority) unable to accept the reality of immigrant dreams of eternal return to India, loved and hated.

Wonderful plot, stunning simplicity of theme: the pursuit of an ideal embodied in a house, one thing that is truly owned by Mr. Biswas, same as get a few years before his death.

One complaint I have of the book, and it feels that its abrupt end, neglected and poorly finished compared to the rest of the book. However, it is definitely something worth reading, if we are ready to admit that the miseries experienced by Mr Biswas and almost the entire island of Trinidad, are a reflection of our wants, with the sieve of past events (World War II takes place during part of adulthood Mr. Biswas)

Anyway, my recommendation: Read it with patience, critical eye and cynicism enough to end up accepting that, as with Mr. Biswas, a house usually represents the culmination of a life of toil and suffering, and we forget the importance of the sense of our lives, live them.

If you read it, I hope you like.

Greetings to all.

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How big can be a cult of indifference on the part of a Salvadoran?

Today, walking, listen to without wanting to a conversation between two people who went before me and one of the conversations (there were two women) tells the other:

- But and what you think of that? - Of course at that time did not know the subject.
- Ay do not know - he said the other girl with annoyance - the truth is that I better not have classes, the bugs if you do not know what they are.

The conversation continued along the same lines and I did not follow more than one block.

At the time, I admit, the conversation has not taken a greater effect on my tired brain cells, but soon the words of the girl annoyed began to resonate in my head and I remembered what a Jesuit priest once told me long ago: "the average human being can hold in your mind what has happened only 21 days preserving not only the memory but also the feeling that makes you" and then gave me a thesis that was the subject in some detail and a strange cargo of sardonic literary rather unusual in the thesis.

Girls in the conversation talking about the recent occupation of which was subject to the University of El Salvador, of course, and what little I could hear after this, there was more than a reaffirmation of the girl screwed up her position in total and absolute indifference / ignorance / intention to continue ignorant.

Beauty humans (if any can have as a species) lies in the reason and the amount of views that can be generated from one individual to another. The truth is that there are ideas of all kinds, ... not know whether to say that there are good and bad ideas in this sort of thing (as the topic was the conversation) but the ideas in this regard exist or should exist. One view is generated from the comparison between what happens and the viewer's appreciation of such an event. Usually the point of view is generated from the juxtaposition of other points of view and the viewer, from where the experience, then generate a perspective all his own.

Again, I could not tell if there are good views or bad about these types of issues, but the point should be, have a point of view, far beyond the benefit or disadvantage.

And of course, skip the concern toward what may be a country that does not care what happens in your environment, is it possible for a country to move forward if you can not see beyond his nose? No need to be a news junkie or a social or political analyst to appreciate the importance of having a view on an event of impact on society and the truth is that it is not necessary to be graduated from a master to realize what happens around us, we are news junkies or not.

So, after thinking about it, I decided to write this post, hoping that after 21 days, I can not forget how sad I was to realize that my people will not see their reality, does not evaluate or fight for or against it, simply because they're too busy with their own things, because it is more interesting to go shopping at the mall or because it is more important to see who knows more trivia in "Who wants to be humiliated ?"... or whatever. Hello everyone