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Cargando... Falconer (1977)por John Cheever
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Sinopsis: Falconer es el nombre de una c©Łrcel. Una vez dentro de ella el hombre se desnaturaliza, pasa a ser una mera referencia burocr©Łtica regida por el irracionalismo y la represi©đn de todo tipo. Cheever describe con gran dureza y detalle el internamiento de Farragut, un hombre marcado por su crimen, por su castigo y por su propia lucha. Desde su ingreso, el protagonista, un homosexual casado, heroin©đmano y que ha sido encarcelado por la muerte de su hermano, se mueve por c©đdigos de comportamiento que alteran la misma naturaleza humana. Su ©ðnica vida social es la de los reclusos, sus contactos con la realidad exterior son escasos y tendr©Ł que luchar para seguir siendo un hombre. A trav©♭s del recuerdo, entramos en lo m©Łs profundo de su mente de tal forma que llegamos a entender las motivaciones y las razones que conducen su vida. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Very little about Farragut is relatable or likeable. He is an opium addict. His marriage, even before his crime, is troubled, mostly as the result of his own behavior. Despite a lifetime of heterosexuality, he easily slides into homosexual acts with other prisoners, going so far as to fall in love with one. The overabundance of Farragut's homosexual behavior dominates much of the book, reminding me of the repetitive non-sequiturs in Breakfast of Champions about various characters' dick sizes.
Near the end of the book, we learn the circumstances of Farragut's crime; interestingly, this is when Cheever most comes across as an unreliable third-person narrator. Farragut verbally claims to have struck his brother but once; at trial, his brother is shown to have suffered repeated blows. Cheever never reconciles the two accounts, nor does he clarify or contradict other significant details pertaining to the murder as told by Farragut.
Falconer ends rather than concludes, and when it does, I'm unclear what I'm supposed to think of Farragut and his uncertain future. Given the Biblical origin of his name, the novel might be interpreted as a modern recreation of prophecies of Ezekiel. Farragut's imprisonment represents the Jewish exile to Babylon; the riot at another prison, Amana, the destruction of Jerusalem;