Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana: Authors of The Paradox of the Blind Librarian.
The Paradox of the Blind Librarian: Raw violence and uncontrolled emotions are transmitted from generation to generation within a family and its environment.
Now he was sleeping peacefully, with his back to her. For him everything had passed, the calm prevailed again. For her, however, the cycle was beginning again; it was only a matter of time before her husband prepared to deliver the next blow. "
Aggressions domestic that reflects the novel they are not suitable for all audiences, interspersed between descriptions of everyday life and the investigation of a murder case, attacking our conscience and our guts like cougars on the prowl for their prey. Powerlessness overwhelms the reader in waves, contempt, anger, rejection. Emotional upheaval is guaranteed.
La originality of the novel stands out among its attributes since the protagonist and common thread of the plot he is an abuser. Around him, characters loaded with a wealth of good deeds and cruel deeds alike, make up a complex plot in which the pills of heinous and heartless violence move the reader until continuing with the image formed in the head long after closing the book.
"He always had a sour comment prepared on the tip of his tongue, as if there were a nest of scorpions gathering venom."
And it is that, in The Paradox of the Blind Librarian, Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana, we they show those realities that we don't usually want to look at in the face.
- Violent and aggressive school bullies are children who live with violence at home.
“He was aware that the resentment his cousin had against him had not been premeditated, but the consequence of the hateful comparisons that had undone their friendship to make them declared enemies. »
- Children who are despised or abused in their infancy tend to repeat patterns as adults.
"A fierce hatred was unleashed within her, focused first on her mother, and then spread by analogy to the rest of the women."
- The victims of mistreatment begin by justifying the abusers, they blame everyone for inciting them because it is very difficult to see the face of the vital failure that surrounds them.
Beatriz hated Felix with all her might, who had been prodding the beast. She knew very well how many hours Camilo spent writing, that those pages were more important to him than his own family, and that old man with the affable face had dedicated himself to throwing away his work. And if Camilo was in a bad mood, the first to pay for it would be herself, that was clear to her. "
- Even the child with the best heart is capable of the greatest cruelties when the violence around him exceeds what he is prepared to handle.
«His mother had gone from being repressed to being reprimanded in just a few seconds. He couldn't bear to see her intimidated like that, squat, shrunken, reduced to a thousandth of herself. "
- A rape marks a person for the rest of their life. You can continue, beat, dominate, but there are experiences that you never get over.
"She had never felt so dirty, not even when Ali blemished her. His own mother's contempt was definitely much worse. "
- Violence has a spiral effect, the strong mistreat the less strong and the weaker.
"Normally he managed to keep that hatred appeased, but every now and then he would run amok, awakening within himself a beast that took control of body and mind with the sole purpose of quenching the thirst for revenge."
The Paradox of the Blind Librarian: Violence is passed from parent to child like genes.
However, history is a song of hope: There are stories that end well, and at the same time it is realistic because not all of them do and these are not necessarily the hardest. Sometimes violence ends in death, others in liberation, others in more violence and others in illusion for a different life.
Events of daily evil, utopian personal changes, but no less credible close this novel that I could go on to infinity, because this is a story about the personal development of the protagonists at the rate set by their circumstances and people never stop evolving nor does life put them in complex situations.
«Have you never heard that the past is the foundation of the present? If you dedicate yourself to removing it, your life may falter, or even worse, it may collapse. "