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MAUTHAUSEN FIDDLER OF Andres Perez Dominguez

Mauthausen Fiddler
Andrés Pérez Domínguez
Algaida Ed, 2009 pp 479

20 euros

Andrés Pérez Domínguez is a well-known author among those who presented and won literary competitions, so it's not so strange that conquered the novel XII Award Ateneo de Sevilla taking over the Andalusian also Felix J. Palma.

this is not your typical novel about World War II, although the backdrop of war substantiate what happens in the plot. Nor is the classic novel about the camps but which one character is five years in Mauthausen determines what happens. Not even is the long view because the history of Nazi Nazi protagonist course it is not. In short, once broken the topics, Mauthausen Fiddler is a remarkable exercise in literary narrative in which main characters are very well designed not only credible, but near each of the events that take place in their lives bewildered.

The story is built on the basis of an interaction of four main characters. First Ruben Castro, a political refugee from the war in Spain in Paris and partner Anna Cavour, a professor of German descent half French and half German. They have to add two more, Robert Bishop, U.S. spy OSS and Franz Müller, German and something more. The plot moves back and forth for the lives of four characters from Paris to Berlin from Salzburg to Mauthausen and misfortunes of three of them, Franz, but especially Anna and Reuben, are endless.

Andrés Pérez Domínguez, who had already had occasion to read The key Pinner, trace a story somewhere between a love story, a story of spies, a war story, a tragic story ... Va gender jumping gender-twisting them all in favor of an argument that leads from one side to another, from one place to another, from one character to another. Is the domain master narrative of the author and sets off on a novel with a very well laid scheme, and broken in several pieces to be assembled in an order that may seem random but it is not. Maybe I just have to object to a certain voltage drop in the third quarter of the same to return with a thrilling final that will reveal it is drawing zigzags to amaze.

Perhaps the character that touches our heart is Ruben, being taken to a concentration camp. Advise the careful reading of the chapter on the hardships that happens in a train car, gives the impression that the author has traveled in one of those vagones de carga para ganado al describir con tanto acierto lo que pasa por las mentes de los que son conducidos al desastre. Al final de la historia también me sorprende la actitud del propio Rubén cuando, tras ser liberado del campo (no voy a descubrir mucho más), razona del siguiente modo tal y como aparece en la página 449: Yo debía estar muerto.

No hace mucho tuve ocasión de reseñar otro libro que habla más directamente de lo que ocurrió en los campos de concentración, en este caso en Auschwitz. Se trata de El mal absoluto de José Luis Muñoz. Ahí se centra bastante más en las torturas y barbaridades que se cometieron. No es, sin embargo, lo que sucede en Violinist of Mauthausen even commented on the sentence from page 449 because it matches the attitude of Yehuda Weiss, victims of the concentration camps in the story told by José Luis Muñoz.

For those who may be interested last year appeared an illustrated edition of Fiddler Mauthausen where you can follow the story with photographic accuracy.

I will not add anything more about this narrative that the author confesses that he created from an image captured in a subway station in Vienna. A couple of dancers who danced in its platform without music. Indeed, the reader discovers why the title of the novel since it is one reason that binds its characters and close the frame.