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Review: Depths

Abyss.

DavidJasso.

Reseñade: SantiagoG ª Solans .

GrupoAjec . Col. Penumbra # 1. Granada, 2011. 223 pages.

DavidJasso inauguracon the publication of his first anthology of the new collection GrupoAJEC : Penumbra; " dedicadaa those genres dark in the broadest sense deltérmino " . Depths reunecinco narratives swim between the psychological terror elparanormal, some stories that go with distaste scratching regret that find the shock or the shock, horror but terrorpuro, suspense and tension in degree, and some mystery, creandouna sense of unease in the reader, of uneasiness with foulbrood come. With a few and books on their backs, their arms vaafilando Jasso literary offering, in a starkly dealguna writing, very direct, powerful images casicinematográficas that stick in the reader's imagination, brilliant metaphors and ellipses of concern successful than simply describe sise all direct and crudely made. Hadepurado undoubtedly style obrasanteriores somewhat hasty, unifying style and offering a powerful voznarradora-both at first and third person, that ambashay in these stories.

Inthe most accounts, starting of an event or object enapariencia irrelevant, bland, Jasso vaconstruyendo an oppressive atmosphere that makes the nerves, waiting outcome with a certain uneasiness, knowing queespera a last nail in the coffin before the last word delcuento. All part of the everyday, go inside, layer after layer of dense accumulation, in the stunning atmosphere of an unknown threat or too close.

Enel story that opens the volume, Elhuevo , a silly girl, a bad idea product of boredom, vaa make all perfectly-ordered life upside of Queno no turning back. Leo , a guy who is alone in his grandmother's house, has laperegrina idea of \u200b\u200bthrowing an egg off the balcony on the head dealgún 'Noob 'that go down the street and see how he reacts thesame. He looks like something fun, exciting, the perfect deromper boredom at the expense of an innocent victim is not expected, literally, what is coming. But the "victim" will not aencontrarle precisely the grace of the issue, deciding to give the brat buenalección which will lead to mental torture to nivelque verges on sadism. The author manages to convey a perfect laforma that thoughts of both protagonists are "evolving" as they interact, the ball is vaenredando more and the boy's terror grows as lavíctima becomes a stalker.

In labrum , one of the five previously published stories, unconductor is recovering in a hospital of the psychological impact ofa traffic accident, in which he himself was at fault, and died elque his wife and daughter. In and out of that brumamental produced by medicines that are administered, conoceráa a young anorexic who has the ability to transmit susemociones some people, creating in them a strong lazoempático that she feels feel or have felt in elpasa. Ready to take his condition to his fatalesconsecuencias, the young man will find a staunch ally inits Hospital plan to escape. But what if he had hidden in their acquiescence unaintencionalidad? The great thing confuerza hits, although there remains the question of reality or not, unrelated to the mundane on the other hand, which takes its strength too dosgrandes current social ills and leave terriblessecuelas in those who suffer. The final twist, unexpected hit withthe load strength of a deep irony.

The author shortly before his entry "hospital"

Lacotidianidad of Eltubo surgede the presence in the hands of two children, two brothers, an ordinary deapariencia object, the tube's title story, queadquiere amazing features as the plot progresses, anObject "innocent" Wicked, which was first given the mood for a great adelantotecnológico its amazing features but delves quepronto in the territory of the mystical. On the way deexploración of the two boys, without leaving your own room, lies the curious child, unconsciously seeking answers Porella price to pay, and the love for a lost father, who died in an accident detráfico, a combination can produce results when menosinquietantes, if not catastrophic. There is a weak but curious connection with the above account, and is a tangible demonstration deque when Jasso gives his characters some hope is paramachacarlos more grudge-as seen also in elrest stories. With a perfect structure, a construction magníficotrabajo, especially psychological dehermanos partner and a tension that goes up step by step conformevan experimenting with the object in question, Eltubo is undoubtedly the best and most elaborate account of the anthology.

In Elcine onthe premise is to use a previously not widely used, both in literature and movies, less boring: ladesaparición a close in strange circumstances and subúsqueda desperate. In this case Sonia , the protagonist's girlfriend, disappears in the film go to the bathroom in the middle of the projection of a horror movie zombie-yaque are so fashion-which has been dragged by her boyfriend, a detail that has been the subject of discussion with earlier bland. Jasso will play with the question of whether or not young habríatenido reason to leave hanging the protagonist, whether voluntarily or hadesaparecido something bad has happened while queél between anger and concern coming finalmentehasta sheer desperation. The ending feels, with that explanation intentode between technology and the supernatural, perhaps untanto forced, leaving some questions diffuse into the air without quepor it detracts from the result.

Laantología closes with Latextura your skin , the story of a young man who goes to a session with a psychiatrist, through which slowly unravels lasrazones his painful past and which have led to this consultation. Unaextraordinaria equipped with "ability" in their lives will intersect the first love despertarhormonal a sweeping and somewhat inexplicable, even absurd, as any adolescent love. The vain desire and jealousy develop in the psyche of a mentally unstable young woman, dragging it an inevitable slope towards lalocura and revenge. It is regrettable that this last story, the Quevar to be more "fresh" in the mind of the reader, it also feels a elque weaker form of the five. The diferentespartes of the narrative, rather disjointed, do not end up marrying soft deformation including cravings that there are chapters that másparecen added somewhat to achieve a determinadalongitud false, and others that perhaps should have been more worked oexplicadas. The unnecessary Foreword also advances key too final, lowering of algunamanera, minus some intrigue. It's a good story, but it suffers compared tothe rest to be a step below dela great height reached by the others.

Lascinco stories are accompanied by a game the author metaliterary alkenyl "invited" to its readers, making them accomplices volume delas stories through a prologue Yde an epilogue as a author unaspalabras inthe the same Jasso seconvierte in character, thus achieving rapport especialcon the unwary that enter unnoticed in Depths queocultan these pages za risk of his own sanity. Which each venture into these chasms cuals under his propiaresponsabilidad psychological, could end up discovering a certain gustoperverso by madness and do not emerge unscathed from the experience.

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