A Window to the North
Original title: Una ventana al norte
Isabel de la Hoz a young, impressionable bourgeois girl from Santander emigrates to a Mexico inflamed by the Cristeras Wars. Wars that, in this book, are a metaphor of the contradictions between emotional and institutional religiousness. The novel tells us a universal and eternal story: the search for reality from the perspective of our innate desire for unreality. The reader will accompany Isabel de la Hoz, absolutly fascinated, as if regarding her from a foggy beach - where imagination transforms reality- to a historical situation where reality is more fantastic than imagination. Everything occurs through a linguistic game, characteristic of Pombo, which makes us live simultaneouly in two planes: the expression itself and what is being expressed. A magnificent novel by one of the best writers of our times.
Isabel de la Hoz a young, impressionable bourgeois girl from Santander emigrates to a Mexico inflamed by the Cristeras Wars. Wars that, in this book, are a metaphor of the contradictions between emotional and institutional religiousness. The novel tells us a universal and eternal story: the search for reality from the perspective of our innate desire for unreality. The reader will accompany Isabel de la Hoz, absolutly fascinated, as if regarding her from a foggy beach - where imagination transforms reality- to a historical situation where reality is more fantastic than imagination. Everything occurs through a linguistic game, characteristic of Pombo, which makes us live simultaneouly in two planes: the expression itself and what is being expressed. A magnificent novel by one of the best writers of our times.
