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La Noche Es Virgen

La Noche Es Virgen

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: La extraordinaria narrativa de lo sublimemente ordinario
Review: Estoy seguro que es el mejor libro de Bayly hasta ahora. Su narrativa tan ligera y cargada con el realismo de lo cotidiano nos envuelve y nos transporta junto con la fuidez de sus dialogos. Me fascina la forma en que puede hacernos parte de esas vivencias, sencillamente porque talvez la Lima de Bayly es la gran ciudad latinoamericana de todos. Es crudo, sumamente subjetivo, pero sobretodo lleno de un sentido negro y sarcástico del humor, ya que con perspicacia, ironía y hasta con malicia describe situaciones típicas de la clase alta latinoamericana.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Patetico pero sencillamente extraordinario!
Review: La Noche es Virgen es una obra maestra de Jaime Bayly. El libro es espeluznante, interesante, muy comico. Su abundancia en grocerias populares nos hacen recordar con carino los hermosos barrios de la Lima que se fue y por supuesto, a nuestra juventud en un pais tercer mundista que esta lleno de acomplejados y mediocres que nunca saldran adelante. Digo esto ya que estuve leyendo las criticas destructivas de aquellos lectores que poseen un vocabulario muy fluido y lo utilizan para aplastar a sus semejantes, a esos gusanos me refiero. La Noche es Virgen es un gran libro para todos los lectores con mente muy abierta.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Along the same lines as his other novels
Review: This one like most of his novels reveals themes such as: homosexuality, an inner view of the upper class in Peru and a basic overview of the difficulty one experiences living in a typical Latin American city laden with poverty, crime, filth, drugs (cocaine) and people who live on the street at best with very little hope for the future. In comparison to two of his previous novels- No se lo digas a nadie and Fue ayer y no me acuerdo, this book is the most serene of the three but deals with the same issues. The characters are well developed and Gabriel, the protagonist is a typical Jaime Bayly character. He is gay and suffers throughout the novel due to the fact that his desires are repressed and, as result is frustrated and struggles with his family, life etc. There is satirical humor throughout this novel and is carefully revealed through the dialogue and local jargon.

La noche es virgen is an easy read and if you like Jaime B's style of literature you may find the book excellent to read. Personally, I thought the book was good but Jaime B needs to diversify. All his books have the same principal themes (even the newer ones such as La mujer de mi hermano). He is a great author of contemporary Spanish literature but needs to move on. Also I found the book hard to read because there are no capitals.


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