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Cargando... El silencio de Malkapor Jorge Zentner, Rubén Pellejero (Ilustrador)
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A sweeping and poignant story of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing the Russian pogroms at the end of the 19th Century, as well as a parable of the making of a modern society and the extent to which religion and mysticism meet. Inspired by a story told to the author by his grandmother. For the family of the little red-headed Malka, trading the Russian shtetl for the Argentine pampas isn't so easy. Even in a country eager to populate its vast territories, the immigrants discover that their new home isn't the promised land. They encounter hostility from both man and nature, as they struggle through droughts and locusts in an attempt to cultivate the arid soil. When misery pushes them to the extreme, Malka's uncle is visited by the prophet Elias, who advises that he create a Golem--the mythical creature fashioned from earth and endowed with life by engraving on his body the word Emet ("Truth")--to pose as a man and aid the immigrants. When years later the adult Malka is visited by Elias, the events of her youth force her to decide whether or not she can maintain her silence--with fate and divine justice hanging in the balance. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Anyhow, the story is awful. While the introduction and opening chapter offer an interesting peek into a real chapter of history -- Little Kibbutz on the Argentinian Prairie, if you will -- the interjection of supernatural elements overwhelm the slice of life bits with pointless sensationalism.
Malka's neighbor down the road has a religious vision of the prophet Elias, who urges him to create a golem to help with his failing farm -- a dark-skinned, unpaid farm worker. When the cover woman falls in love with the golem, she accidentally kicks off a cascade of violence that just throws away all the potential of the setting and characters. Originally created in the 1980s, this work seems to be a product of the previous decade's slavesploitation genre more than anything else. ( )