Taking advantage of the fact that the author is a mathematician, we will observe the form in numbers: This work is composed of 14 stories, of which 12 have a name of woman and 2 of man and woman. Most stories are about 6 pages long, but Sara's name is one page long. As for the narrative voice, in the 3 stories the protagonists are told in 1 person, and in 2 it appears that a “I” tells the story to a “you”.
The protagonists are women, as can be seen in the titles of each book and each story, but most of the times they do not speak, because we know them in the light of the eyes of others. The title refers to the south wind and the crazy wind, in the way of counting it, giving space to imagination, fantasy, magical thinking. On these pages we can find word games and picture chains from oral literature, a style that places us in a dream world along with the use of repetition, color and meaning. In fact, one of the stories shows the following quote from Virginia Woolf, which clearly shows the tone of this work: “Life is to dream. What kills us is to wake up.”
Despite being a joyful and fun style, stories show profound and conflicting themes: old age, death, loss, mourning, abandonment, ruptures, falling in love, fear, poverty, social exclusion, (power) relationships, ill-treatment, incommunication... From time to time, “holes in life”, “people who have learned to walk drowned” and “doors without locks” will appear. But above all we will find the phrase “who has a name has been”. We will have people with or without a name – and an associated being – or a name – but there are – some will accept and continue with their mediocre conditions, and others will find them at the point of change of reading.
To conclude, reader, we present a fragment of the story Adela that illustrates what you will find in these narratives: “Uxue tries, on those occasions, to put his eyes very small and look away, but he doesn’t know if they go too far. Eyes. The imagination does, the imagination goes very far and that saves him from the glasses. He thinks otherwise he should wear glasses.”
Party and recreation. Oral History of Rock Radical Vasco
Javier 'Jerry' Corral
Books, 2025
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