Sad, this guide to Paris rather nostalgic for a city and a youth no longer. Either fourteen new on Latin American exiles in the city who have always dreamed about. It is this writer who is not writing, torn between his wife, vulgar and unimaginative, and the horrible black cat which he seeks more than reason. There are these two friends vaguely artists, ugly, hungry, posing for top-flight international terrorists to obtain payment of glasses on the terrace of the Flore. There is an old man dying by ironing his loves and his German course in the last remarkable new book..

It recognizes the key Bryce Echenique in the din of adverbs improbable, by digressions and phrases without head or tail that zigzag and lost and oral. Unfortunately, these stunts are not enough to convince the entire collection. Told orally, these stories could deprive the audience of a dinner where you stay long at the table. Compiled in a book they sin by inconsistency, and it was sometimes unpleasant impression meet face to bottom of the barrel of a great writer.

For Bryce Echenique has done much better, and we will have the opportunity to check with A World for Julius, be released on the occasion of the release of Sad guide. This brilliant autobiographical first novel is regularly cited among the key works of Hispanic American letters of the twentieth century. Child of the upper class in Lima, Julius grew up torn between her family of beautiful and wealthy golfers and their retinue of servants, thus offsetting the misery of their own lives by devoting themselves to serve the universe of golden masters. In slow and precise, the book exposes the arrogance of some careless face the distress of others, placing the small Julius silent witness to the conflict between emotional social classes that do not even fight. The difference between the fate of women who surround the child sufficient to illustrate the insidious horror of world that teaches him. Susan, her mother adored, built its existence on the pursuit of pleasure and silenced the small depth of suffering that threaten his vocation doll luxury. Details delicious, it is never called to say she is pretty. Vilma, his good Care, is a Metis appetizing as it violates the sly and then dismisses it with a lot of compensation and punishment, but without mercy. Discontinue Paris, Alfredo Bryce Echenique and let you through the Lima beautiful and cruel of her childhood.