Acuerdate de mis ojos

by Antonio Sarabia

Un hombre ya maduro que vislumbra en los ojos de su joven amante otros ojos en los que se abismó muchos años atrás; una antigua mansión habitada por dos huérfanos solitarios y por una turba de presencias que parecen tutelarlos; dos bandas juveniles de un barrio popular que viven la pasión por el fútbol y una rivalidad a mue rte; un pirata sanguinario que pasa a cuchillo a toda la tripulación de un buque flamenco, salvo a una dama de gran belleza.

ebook

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Nascido em 1944, no México D.F., Antonio Sarabia estudou Ciências da Informação na Universidade Iberoamericana. Em 1978, data de publicação do seu livro de poemas Tres pies al gato, deixou de trabalhar no mundo da publicidade e da rádio para se dedicar plenamente à literatura. A partir de 1981, e durante os quinze anos seguintes, Sarabia residiu alternadamente em Paris e Guadalajara. O seu primeiro romance, El alba de la muerte, intitulado mais tarde Faixa de Moebius, foi finalista do prémio internacional Diana-Novedades, em 1988. Publicou também Amarilis (1991), Los avatares del piojo (1993) e Os Convidados do Vulcão (1996), romance que foi traduzido em inúmeras línguas, incluindo o português, e que o consagrou como um dos grandes nomes da literatura mexicana. Em Portugal, foi igualmente publicada a obra A Taberna da Índia a que se junta agora O Regresso do Paladino. Além destas obras, Sarabia publicou ainda El cielo a dentelladas (2001), Acuérdate de mis ojos (2003) e o livro de viagens El refugio del fuego (2004), em colaboração com o fotógrafo Daniel Mordzinski.

Reviews

[Debbie Zapata · Rating 5 out of 5]

This 2002 collection of short stories by noted Mexican author Antonio Sarabia is another Spanish language treasure I found on the tables of the regular book fairs when I lived in Mexico.

I am SO glad I bought it! Of the seven stories here, there was only one that did not hold my attention, and that (oddly enough) was the title story. It concerned a Spanish poet of the 1600's. He is on his death bed, thinking about his life and the way he used to write satiric versions of poems written by another court poet. To put it bluntly this was a dull story for me and I didn't finish it.

But the others! WOW! There was a pirate tale that surely had a surprise ending for everyone concerned, especially me. Another about a woman who falls in intellectual lust with the pizza delivery guy because he understood where she got the name she gave her cat. But was he really the Romantic Hero she thought he was?

Another story told of two children left alone in the family house when their parents died. They continued their lives more or less in the same manner, except for the geography game they begin to play using a globe of the earth and their imaginations. They write letters to places all over the world, using the names of long-dead ancestors from the family graveyard. What do you think happens when they begin to get replies to these letters?!

I was super impressed by this author so (of course) will be looking for more of his titles. And I will never forget the characters in these stories. Niguas most of all. His story made me cry.