Una Ventana al Norte by Álvaro Pombo

Una Ventana al Norte

Álvaro Pombo
315 pages
Ed. Anagrama
Sep 2004
Spanish WSBN
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Isabel de la Hoz es una joven burguesa y fantasiosa trasplantada al Mexico de las guerras cristeras. Unas guerras que son una metafora real es decir, tragica de las contradicciones entre una religiosidad emocional y una religiosidad institucional. Tener una ventana al norte es una expresion santanderina muy curiosa: el norte era America, que mas tarde significo la ilusion y, despues, la falta de cordura. A Isabel de la Hoz le falta, pues, un tornillo. No podia entenderse con la burguesia de entre-guerras. Era una revolucionaria de cuento de hadas, antes de extraviarse por los laberintos de la revolucion real, del amor y de la desmesura. Asi, la novela cuenta la busqueda de la realidad a partir de nuestro innato gusto por la irrealidad. / Isabel de la Hoz is a young, bourgeois and fanciful woman who finds herself suddenly relocated to Mexico during the Cristero Wars. These wars are a real (that is to say tragic) metaphor for the contradictions between emotional and institutional religiosity. Isabel finds it impossible to assimilate herself with the between-the-wars bourgeoisie, as happy and cosy as Alfonso XIII. She was a fairytale revolutionary, before getting lost within the labyrinths of the reality of revolution, love, and excess. This novel tells us a story of the search for the real, starting from our innate taste for the surreal.
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Pages 315
Publisher Ed. Anagrama
Published 2004
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