![]() ![]() ![]() I never knew if this was because they were racked by exhaustion and fatigue, or out of hunger, a cyclopean desire to devour their young. ![]() I’ve seen mothers who despair at having to provide for their children, letting out huge yawns while contemplating them. “ Mothers stay with their children during the first years, and then, when the children can - apparently - defend themselves, they release them, they cast them into the naked tumult, and forget them. But the human spirit and “ the distinct light in each eye” cannot be entirely obliterated. The narrator describes the rigid social hierarchy and nasty rituals of the repressive state which has condemned him and a group of naked prisoners. Because those who have had to leave our house (and managed to return to tell of it) don’t wish to go back outside.” “ They’re organized, and everything suggests an important part of that organization lies in their resolve to keep us locked inside this house, for all eternity. ![]() From the start, the reader is sucked into the mind of one of the undesirable Naked Ones exiled in a wardrobe in a vast but cramped house. Evelio Rosero’s chilling dystopian parable, Stranger to the Moon, is like the detailed, imaginative nightmare of a fantastic surrealist painting by Max Ernst, populated by the bizarre and often monstrous figures of a creation by Hieronymous Bosch. ![]()
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