Antonio Muñoz Molina:
The night of time
a decade and a half ago, Muñoz Molina was one of our best writers . But the business has no mercy. The publishing business, I say. Forced, one thinks, to write against time to appease the hag is always unsatisfied English book industry, Muñoz Molina lately has been forced to borrow books and who sells churros. In no other way I can think of to explain the patent decline of a narrator who once subdued with his extraordinary prose of pure gold and now moves into the more conventional narratives. Emulating writers (not recommended) that until recently Muñoz Molina drew a lead of several bodies, our man sets his novel in the English Civil War. I swear by my ancestors that if I ever read a single book about the subject to contract all the symptoms of equine foot and mouth disease . Muñoz Molina can not write bad even if you want. Has a job that prevents the plunges to pimp with such fervor that the writers are paid patriotic. But the task is not enough when composing a tome of nearly a thousand pages without enthusiasm and without conviction. I may be wrong. Like Muñoz Molina has put all his art, his whole capacity, in this novel. If so, the diagnosis is even more dramatic. Muñoz Molina can be completed, your creative cycle has ended and that its literature is kept afloat only thanks to the ventilation of promotional campaigns that are so dear to our businessmen. The publishing world is in the hands of executives, people who do not read , it is clear when one sees the bestseller lists in our suffering country. If we're going to have to eat crap , at least give us the well presented. If the average reader will not ever be critical, or whenever it is less, which we have the consolation that, instead of the swill infranarrativa Scandinavian mystery puppet police for microcephalic, English readers consume a pseudo-placebo as is the latest novel by Muñoz Molina. Located at a level far below the expectations created by its excellent art curriculum, I do not think this work have been content to any reader veterans Muñoz Molina. He would know. For now, the Civil War remains a profitable business. At least on the printed page. Having seen, that this return will result in an objective quality seems highly unlikely.
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