Mauricio's review
Continental Drift (P.S.)
by Russell Banks
Mauricio's review
Continental Drift (P.S.) by Russell Banks
Mauricio's review
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Interesting book... The problem is that I read the spanish version (Bruguera, 2006) and the fact that it arrived 21 years later than when it was first published, it didn't seem very original now after all the fuss about culture crash during the past decades in the US, movies included.
Nevertheless, the story is still quite appealing and the “existentialism” that runs through the plot is convincing. However, the fact that the narrator intrudes into his novel to “explain” some of the facts like an outsider, makes too evident the fact that the whole thing is just an invention… We know it is fiction, but is easier to relate to the characters if somehow we allow ourselves to go along with the account, without being reminded that there is a guy somewhere outside the book (an omnipresent figure?) staging everything for us.
Nevertheless, the story is still quite appealing and the “existentialism” that runs through the plot is convincing. However, the fact that the narrator intrudes into his novel to “explain” some of the facts like an outsider, makes too evident the fact that the whole thing is just an invention… We know it is fiction, but is easier to relate to the characters if somehow we allow ourselves to go along with the account, without being reminded that there is a guy somewhere outside the book (an omnipresent figure?) staging everything for us.
