Dad just got out of the oven.
- Eider Rodriguez ::Cat people The two of us. :: 155 pages The price is: 12€
Gema Lasarte
2010ko urriaren 05
Eider Rodríguez pared this phrase in the story entitled Capitalism. And with this phrase we would summarize the semantic tendency and/or strict conception of Rodríguez with respect to power, intrigues and protocol.
In addition to the narrative’s reflection on death and inheritance, Rodríguez has placed the elderly as protagonists in this collection of short stories, since during these stories he has embodied quite a lot of gendarmerie from these corners. The old man had a clumsy vision of motricity, of loneliness and of the denial of relationships. Thus the story The Cat People, the first, is built on a parallel journey between the unloving two protagonists and their cat pets. To end with the death of Katama, the stench left by the dead cat, because it is the smell of the desire that is allowed to die. The death of the desire and the impossibility of rapprochement between the two protagonists, given what to say.
There is a man among them called Telmo, who was separated, who bought the impressive Volvo thanks to his inheritance that had just taken his father out of the oven. The same bourgeois, somewhere in his profession, who has many putaneros but doesn’t love them for hygiene reasons. The one who loves masturbating more than fucking anyone. Matters of hygiene.
There is a mother who feels like a cow, who only serves to satisfy the basic physiological needs of others. Insignificant in this society, formerly an actress but now acting only in the daily routine in the routine and under the rhythm of her husband. Women with half a body outside the window. Numerous characters wrapped around power, linked to beauty, but completely parked in the daily routine.
There is another thematic axis that is explained: wealth, classes, status. Presence of cars, anthropomorphized cars that have become sendi: Aurora's Urrum, An Abyssal Animal in Volskwagen A Grey Bora. Mention of the brand’s mills and objects, or the metonymy of the hands: “My mother has always told me that someone’s origin can be guessed in their hands.” I would conclude
by saying that Rodríguez has shown his own style both in the way of writing in the three collections of stories and in the way in which the themes are addressed. And if there are any changes, I would highlight Rodríguez’s gesture to prolong the stories, to transform them into short narratives.
In addition to the narrative’s reflection on death and inheritance, Rodríguez has placed the elderly as protagonists in this collection of short stories, since during these stories he has embodied quite a lot of gendarmerie from these corners. The old man had a clumsy vision of motricity, of loneliness and of the denial of relationships. Thus the story The Cat People, the first, is built on a parallel journey between the unloving two protagonists and their cat pets. To end with the death of Katama, the stench left by the dead cat, because it is the smell of the desire that is allowed to die. The death of the desire and the impossibility of rapprochement between the two protagonists, given what to say.
There is a man among them called Telmo, who was separated, who bought the impressive Volvo thanks to his inheritance that had just taken his father out of the oven. The same bourgeois, somewhere in his profession, who has many putaneros but doesn’t love them for hygiene reasons. The one who loves masturbating more than fucking anyone. Matters of hygiene.
There is a mother who feels like a cow, who only serves to satisfy the basic physiological needs of others. Insignificant in this society, formerly an actress but now acting only in the daily routine in the routine and under the rhythm of her husband. Women with half a body outside the window. Numerous characters wrapped around power, linked to beauty, but completely parked in the daily routine.
There is another thematic axis that is explained: wealth, classes, status. Presence of cars, anthropomorphized cars that have become sendi: Aurora's Urrum, An Abyssal Animal in Volskwagen A Grey Bora. Mention of the brand’s mills and objects, or the metonymy of the hands: “My mother has always told me that someone’s origin can be guessed in their hands.” I would conclude
by saying that Rodríguez has shown his own style both in the way of writing in the three collections of stories and in the way in which the themes are addressed. And if there are any changes, I would highlight Rodríguez’s gesture to prolong the stories, to transform them into short narratives.