La novela Seven Houses in France de Atxaga comentada por Mary Whipple

Mary Whipple ha sido por muchos años profesora de Inglés y Asesora de Estudiantes Internacionales en una Universidad de Massachusetts, donde trabajó para promover la comprensión internacional y salvar las diferencias entre la cultura americana y otras culturas de todo el mundo. En los últimos años, en su web Seeing the world through books  (Ver el mundo a través de los libros), ha comentado libros de autores de 130 de los 195 países del mundo, desde Afganistán hasta Zanzíbar.

Acaba de incorporar a su web un análisis de la última obra de Bernardo Atxaga. Que se convierte, de esta manera, en la tercera obra del autor vasco, y la cuarta que tiene relación con el País Vasco, que es comentada por esta autora.

Mary Whipple Reviews – 3/9/2012 – USA

Bernardo Atxaga–SEVEN HOUSES IN FRANCE

When young Chrysostome Liege arrives by boat to begin his service in the Belgian Force Publique for King Leopold II in the Congo, he is clearly an innocent – a shy, religious, and humorless young man thrust into circumstances which challenge everything he, and the reader, consider “civilized.” It is 1903, and the Congo is King Leopold’s private fiefdom. Though the country has been called the Congo “Free State” since 1885, King Leopold has been the sole shareholder of this “non-governmental organization” which he founded so he could be a “benevolent ruler” to an area in central Africa more than twice the size of New England and New York combined. In reality, “freedom” and “benevolence” have never been part of the King’s plan. He has, from the beginning, used the Congo for his own purposes, forcing an unwilling native population to supply huge amounts of ivory, mahogany, minerals, and rubber which would benefit only him. Failure to meet nearly impossible quotas has resulted in the loss of a hand for the unfortunate laborer.

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