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Title: Amphitryon. Premio Primavera de Novela 2000 by Ignacio Padilla ISBN: 8-4239797-7-6 Publisher: Espasa Calpe Mexicana, S.A. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: A great style for a not so great plot.
Comment: Amphitryon is a novel very much in the frequency of contemporary MExican literature. Padilla, along with other writers, are responding to the initial success of Post-Boom narrative by taking over the market seduced by the folkloric version of Mexico (leaded by the nasty Like Water for Chocolate) through the usage of resources and topics that have nothing to do with Mexico. In the case of Padilla's novel, the plot is centered on a story of suplantations, beneath which lies an obscure nazi project to create doubles for political figures. Even though this topic sounds like a Michael Crichton novel, Amphitryon is far from such literature, due to the formal and stylistic construction. The book is very readable and, with the award, is likely to occupy a central place in Mexican literature. Nonetheless, readers should not wait a deep usage of the nazi topic, since it is only a pretext to develop a narrative strategy. I think the novel will eventually raise the question on the validity to rely on such historical facts to create a story that does not express the horror of the nazis on its full extent. Even so, the novel is a great book for the casual reader. We are only left to expect that the amazing narrative abilities of Padilla will produce a masterpiece in the future.

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