What will happen next? This is the impatience that tames my soul, as it pages empty runway, The novel by Matías López Navajas (Santiago de Chile, 45 years old) is unfolding before my eyes. I’m a misguided reader these days, because I don’t think that a literary proposal that doesn’t interest me on principle has that much impact on me. Although I suppose the authority of what I’m talking about is of no consequence, just those texts that disdain the epistemological horrors we have meticulously constructed over the years. No, they never knew everything about literature. No, you can’t close it without reading, even without reading the first 20 or 30 pages, unless it’s obvious, because death could be on the second page. Yes, every book you read will teach you to read again.
The Chilean writer immerses us in a delirious and debauched literary novel, echoing his own words and a far-fetched, sophisticated plan, full of unexpected plot twists. Lucas and Pablo agreed to meet David, his priest, at the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport lounge to board a plane together and go to Türkiye to travel. Their father, Señor D, is bald, so Pablo, the mayor of his brothers, reasoned that the best way to view his ancestor was that his descendants had improved the species containing melenas. Ah, time to find the globe in Cappadocia. Is there anything bad here? How many readers are powered? Are you readers? Again, this is not interesting, because there are reports that would be better to hear. Soon, there is no flight. That the Varuna brothers had been taken away at the station. That groups of travelers had set out for the camp. That there is a doctor distributing materials. Mexican Chinese. Ah, un Vasco, the fake kid, who was obsessed with the chica, stuck his paw down. Yes, what if he kills her without D, where are you? I had to land two hours before Pablo arrived from Chile. They were different clips. Now, La Rioja. seriously? How many months has it disabled you? There is nothing worse than a man justifying infidelity.
This series probably won’t be seen in supermarkets, at bus stops, or advertised in the sky behind a plane just taking off. It will not be given a stipend in economics — or in the future — nor will it be commented on in a journal. If nothing good happens, like all these things, it doesn’t have to be this way. Stories have a life of their own. Empty path It is a fun, innovative, and, at times, sad novel, which inverts many themes from modern Latin American literature, in which someone must abandon his country to aspire to a better life, rising to the heights of globalization and unbalanced capitalism.
Eustides will now see me on the streets, sharing San Matías López Navajas prints, as he did with Alberto Fugit or with Alejandro Zambra at another time. If there is one thing that shows that this work is so original, it is that the literature so full of planes from that country in the form of Lapecito is that another point of view, in apparently innocuous terms, is possible.