Tim willocks (Stalybridge, 1957) is psychiatrist y writer and British, with 6 published novels, touches any genre - it says there aren't any, there are only good stories - and its best-known titles are The ultimate end of creation (crime novel) y The order (historical novel). He is one of my most idolized authors, perhaps for what is not deservedly known but extraordinary What is it. This is my review of a history as hard as it is powerful, not suitable for delicate stomachs.
The end last of creationby Tim Willocks (1994)
Synopsis
Green River is the name of a Texas prison that is rather the hell on earth. Directed by the warden John hobbes, manic manual, in it they cram prisoners of all conditions as murderers, rapists or drug dealers, who make their own wars of territories and between races.
"And what the hell do you care" is Ray Klein's motto, a surgeon, accused by his ex-girlfriend of a rape he did not commit. On the day the novel begins, he will finally get the conditional freedom. But it will take a long time and it will be the worst of your life when a riot breaks out and madness seizes everyone.
Because no matter how hard I try to follow that motto, you will have no choice but to get involved if you want to survive and, above all, that those you care about do it too. Among them, Earl (Toad) Coley, his colleague in the infirmary where they take care of AIDS patients especially; Juliette Devlin, external psychiatrist and in love with Klein, who works with them and is visiting that day; Claude / Claudine Toussant, a trans lost in an identity crisis and the main cause of the riot; Y Henry abbott, a murderous schizophrenic who turns out to be Klein's most powerful — and fascinating — ally.
Stuck in the infirmary Coley and Devlin will have to face a group of prisoners, led by a cruel and ruthless psychopath. While, Klein and Abbott they will have to get reach them getting into every corner, corridor and sewer not only of the walls of Green River, but also by the darkest of its minds and spirits.
In Green River, the soul was a dangerous inconvenience, a personal torture chamber that only masochists or morons would visit.
Tim willocks
Tim Willocks is a psychiatrist and writer, specializing in the treatment de patients with problems of drug addiction. So, in his books references to the medicine and martial arts, since it is karate first dan black belt shotokan. He is also a screenwriter.
He has written six novels of which I have read four. Here they have only published two, although the first one also arrived, City of gall. But the most famous are this and The order, a monumental historical novel, with a continuation, The twelve children of Paris, also magnificent, but that has not arrived.
Review
But without any doubt Green river rising o The ultimate end of creation (title in Spanish taken from a quote by Kant with which it begins) is the best known and most special. It takes place in a single day and is structured in Two parts:
- in the primera it shows us the context and introduces the characters and their different situations before the riot starts;
- and in the second the whole spiral of violence and chaos is unleashed.
- Then there is a epilogue where, with much more irony and humor, we are told what happens to the characters who manage to escape —or survive— to hell.
It must be made clear that not suitable for delicate or modest spirits, who are usually labeled as obscene and filthy for its very graphic, explicit and violent language. However, it also distills a depth and beauty almost poetic. There are phrases, passages and, above all, images loaded with sensitivity or with a vast knowledge of someone dedicated to entering and exploring the most intricate, twisted and altered minds by disease or by human nature itself.
Hits
So, first hit: The rechazo before the stark language has the same strength that admiration which can also cause. In my particular case, it was an inspiration when writing my novel Marie. In it I used it without complexes either and as catharsis. Because that is yet another of the ends proposed by Willocks.
The most important is to create and use a alternate reality —The one of a jail— like perfect metaphor of that constricted mind both for the evil caused and for the received. In it displays a gallery of characters which are simply the many examples of how your different connections: the sexual identity and its conflicts, the use of sex itself as payment, humiliation, survival or gift, the violence innate or acquired, the locura (madness) transitory or product of the disease, the power immense both of the love as the hate. And those characters manage to be as clichéd as they are absolutely unique.
That's him second hit and perhaps the most fundamental that I get from everything I have read about Willocks: his perfect line of stereotypes and stories as pure as cinematographic and, at the same time, with their imperfect edges. The capacity of empathize with them, either the hero in love, brave and ready for anything like Ray klein, or the disturbed deadlier and, at the same time, more faithful, loyal and grateful as Henry abbott, the huge prisoner who killed his entire family with hammer blows and who ends up being an avenging angel.
The two form the Ideal pair in another metaphor of the balanza fully balanced Between good and bad. That is why both impose the same respect everyone, the most honest and weak men and the most abject vermin. Small awarded by the equanimity and diplomacy, and Abbott simply because of the paralyzing terror that causes. And yet ...
"Klein…" Abbott told him. It was the first time she hadn't called him "doctor." No one has loved me more than you. Klein wanted to look away, but those burning eyes forced him to keep looking at him. No one has ever had a better friend. You came to my side when I was broken, and you stayed with me. You have healed me.
With them, some guys in their more inhumane versions as Hector Grauerholz, or more deeply human as Earl Coley. Because they unleash both their most primal and savage madness and instincts, sponsored by that restrictive universe, as well as the most selfless generosity and the most dedicated sacrifice. Is it so physically locked up, because they deserve it, because they are the worst. But only that.
Those who guard and punish them are also locked up, infected by that rotten air of disease, evil and mental imbalance. The officials like the captain Bill Cletus or the guard Victor Galindez, the cross and the face of the same coin. OR Juliette Devlin, unique female character, brave and uninhibited, who also gets carried away and who, by chance and also a powerful desire, has been trapped in prison.
Ultimately
Willocks simply prompts you to think about it first and then shows you What could you do in a hell full of human beasts. And we all know that those are the worst. So, to get a minimal idea, it is best to venture out and read it.