Even
with the slight journalistic pretense of portraying the bohemia of
Havana in the 20s, Aprendices de Brujo is an adventure novel
that could easily be adapted into a comic book. The tension of
extraordinary events, the protagonists somewhat ingenuous insights,
and the sought-after Italian diva Eleonora Duse, lost in the mirage
of her own legend, all leads to high doses of vertigo and deception.
The novel is a strange laboratory that manages to give a mythic character to the voyages of the main characters, two young Colombians, bourgeois and in love. Switching off chapter after chapter, their two voices tell the 465-page tale at a bracing pace.
Author of numerous children’s stories and of the grown up novels Striptease and Dear Dracula, Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, has written a story where a poetics of the impossible outweighs any literary artifice.
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Review Aprendices de Brujo, Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (Meansheets)
The novel is a strange laboratory that manages to give a mythic character to the voyages of the main characters, two young Colombians, bourgeois and in love. Switching off chapter after chapter, their two voices tell the 465-page tale at a bracing pace.
Author of numerous children’s stories and of the grown up novels Striptease and Dear Dracula, Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, has written a story where a poetics of the impossible outweighs any literary artifice.
Vera
Review Aprendices de Brujo, Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (Meansheets)
