C uent, narratives or stories. They are short literary pieces, but difficult to define: what can be considered short? In the same way that the novel is not limited in length, the story itself does, because if it goes too long novella called, entering into another dimension of literature. The same dictionary of the academy is well aware what a novel ( work literary prose that tells a feigned action in whole or in part, and whose purpose is to cause aesthetic delight readers with the description or picture of interesting events or sets of characters, passions and habits ) but it is difficult to find such a concise definition for the story.
I like to think that the really important things are hard to define, capture or realize that what we want in life you can not grab or lock up, and the spirit man is based on these concepts evergreen but indefinable. And I sincerely believe that the story is a of these concepts impossible cloistered hauled on a dictionary definition, because the story springs from the very essence of being human. The animals have learned from the behaviorists, are able to communicate with infinite kinds of language, the vast majority of times so imperceptible to our senses. But the story of humanity is born with it, at the time a story emerges in a simple gathering of what may be called hominids, obviously long before the existence of literature and written language.
There in the firelight to be kept turned on as a hunter, an old man, a warrior begins to tell his story, the successful campaign of the day, or the legend of the invincible animal. Is very close to the origin of the theater, but it sacralization requires a much more dedicated and special, with audience and actors. The story, however, has existed since man is man, and the hero can be anyone, it is in those early days of mankind when you start to create the oral literature that still persists in certain regions of the world of the XXI century. The extension of the story is thus defined as something bearable for the patience and interest of the audience and the narrator's memory and ability.
subjective narrative has allowed the suits to all societies and forms, languages \u200b\u200band periods. For where at least two people meet, with the most diverse intentions, is where the story. The subsequent evolution of this piece of literature may be more or less complex, culminating in Thousand and One Nights, Lucano Count r, or The Decameron, but the birth of new oral histories continues, and so in a digitized world, are still telling stories to the fireside, in every man and every woman is a narrator. Paul Auster proposed, in a radio broadcast, listeners to transmit to him true stories. An overwhelming response confirmed four thousand accounts that the genre is still alive, mankind has the need, whether everyday stories, events or developments extrarodinarios incomprehensible. Not dead storytellers of Djemaa el Fna square in Marrakesh, and continue to form filandón, although nothing has to tread. José María Merino was a favorite in your family to read stories on long winter evenings. In such moments is suggestive, before they can read, when you start the most intense hobbies literary.
When a group of friends we met a few weeks ago and heard some stories to light the fire, then we were reliving the origin of literature, a magical moment and yet familiar, a transcendence we are not able to understand when we do. The success of the storytelling, stand-up, plays a single actor, delves into this hidden feeling hypnotist the story, the storyteller, more or less real, more or less fictional. Because at that special moment when the narrator begins, there is no literary or folklore or fairy tales: the moment shut up, listen and let go subjugated by the eternal flow of words.
The Tree of s story is the title Luis Mateo Díez has chosen for his collection of stories I have written so far. It has lost some branch of that tree, because he himself acknowledges that he has deleted some accounts of their immaturity. We also know that soon the book will be incomplete, because we expect Díez keep writing stories. Reading us, we are closer to those days in the attic, so present in their literature, where children, ghosts, fantastic games and stories were part of their daily life. Back to the imagination of children is a privilege that few adults have.
Another author whose full accounts just read Carson McCullers, runs in a paragraph but it is one of the commonplaces of literature and Western culture southern United States. Expert in exploring the deepest feelings, McCullers also able to go back to childhood and adolescence and anguish bring us physical and mental change that means getting to adult. Life McCullers itself, full of depression and illness, seems to be written in their first stories. Narratives that could be used in a suggestive and special in any filandón to attend and Díez Merino. Who could say that the deep south of Georgia and the mountains of Leon might fit in so few lines?
