“Desired Effects” by Guillermo Alonso: How leaders survive in a world of cynics | Babelia by Guillermo Alonso

How does a leader survive among cynics? How can you have a clean outlook when you live surrounded by reflections of selfish, mean people and those responsible for unhealthy relationships? This dilemma is exactly what he is planning. desired effect (Seix Barral), Guillermo Alonso’s last novel (Pontevedra, 1982). What’s behind your account’s volume? language between teeth (Círculo de Tiza, 2023) and melodrama Vivant Los Cabares Ombres (Free Kids, 2019) and private expression of love (Paripe Books, 2021), the writer and web editor of ICON magazine, modernizes picaresque by honing a style that is allergic to moral hierarchies. And it permeates through the carnival of characters who want to shine as brightly as possible, without any sense of superiority, but with a lot of empathy. That pulse of hedonism and privilege moves the reader from tenderness to amazement among the carcahadas, and we freeze to realize that this nervous laugh of ours is a ticket straight to the living room of hell.

In this non-linear fiction that takes place during a time jump between Madrid and an idyllic Greek island, Gaspard is 19 years old and alone after the death of his mother. She was both charming and eccentric, a woman with a broken past. The existence of the protagonist is defined by the respected woman who created him without a priest, at the sight of a fleeting lover with a rubber girl in a shared room in a cozy hotel. Gaspard has been a boy forever, ever since he was conscious. Convinced that he must avenge his mother’s death, the young man begins to establish his orphan identity by serving a rich man. First he ends up working for Pandora, a widow who is obsessed with her appearance and her girlfriend. performance He is obsessed with holding countless festivals in the most fetid city of Madrid. The trees are considered to be the greenest there, “as if nature sends the best pollen to germinate where there is fresh money.” He then ends up traveling to Cycladas to take care of Ottaviano. Ottaviano is one of two mysterious super-wealthy people whose appearance was disfigured due to an accident and whose contract prohibits them from asking questions. In this mansion by the sea, there is a golden cage where Gaspard comes to ask if he wants to take a bath, and since the workers are not expected to go into the pool, he vetoes it, but it becomes the place where all the mysteries that have been with him since childhood spill out. What happens to leaders when they collide with a world of people who treat them like a commodity?

al reading desired effect It should not be overlooked that the author won the Ondus Prize. podcast conversational arsenic caviar It is co-led by writer and journalist Beatriz Serrano, a longtime chronicler of aspirations and trends in an increasingly gloomy world. It is in Gaspard’s subaltern perspective, from which decadence is revealed in the imposed luxury that defines good taste. This young man is an “expert in the invisible,” and although he has a realistic sense of resignation, he is living a wandering life with an open heart toward life. This natural survivor, who will also deal with violence on her first sexual journey, will become a hairless picaro of fools who knows how to anticipate every attack of those who seek to cut her destiny. You think of Gaspard at one of the first festivals of the wealthy. This festival reflects and reflects the drift of our times. There, even without importing Kuna, we are still lost. “If in the first hour there is a contagious desire for everyone to seem virtuous, then in the last hour there is a contagious desire to appear ridiculous.”