E 'June 14, 1995 when even Roger Zelazny died sixty years. The American author was undoubtedly among the most original voices in fiction since its inception in the early '60s in the pages of the oldest trade magazine, Amazing Stories , then revived by the editor Cele Goldsmith. Zelazny immediately reveals a fine literary writer and careful attention to the style of his work fits perfectly into the science fiction of the time that was updating his themes and putting more and more attention to the fact most exquisite literary stories. I confess a special affection for Zelazny, the author who was key to completely reshape my approach to science fiction when uncritical reader of Urania, a friend lent me the file number 10 of the then unknown to me Robot magazine, saying: "And for a reading is then refined Zelazny "that dossier contained the novel The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth , very valuable literary reworking of the myth of Ahab and Moby Dick transported in the oceans of an alien world, one of the most clear and vigorous narrative of the first Zelazny.
The reworking of science fiction in key social and religious myths and archetypes and psychological narrative is the theme of her missionary work, particularly of those early novels and stories that require attention and hearts of readers. The elegant, polished writing Zelazny is particularly suited to enhance the tranquility of this material and the seduction of narrative reading. At the same time writing that is modeled on its content, becoming a vehicle of modern myth-making and drawing its strength from the attractiveness of its evocative power of those myths and mythical ancestral heritage.
Corrida is a sliver of his dazzling ability to awaken in the reader this mythical memory and an equally incisive test of his skill as a writer. Zelazny tessesse could write as if the wires or by crystal use of any variation of irony, beat, or could be sought through the streets of a literary experimentalism that still seemed unusual in the pragmatic and rustic fence sf. He was versatile and constantly test its versatility. In Corrida makes use of an abrasive in writing that combines the accuracy with which it brings out the psychological world of the protagonist, the player creates an atmosphere of increasing anxiety and fear and profound loss, and reaches a final hard unpleasant and even in his seemingly leave the story unfinished.
The short short story is a much more flexible than you might think, particularly in the field of science fiction where it provides the best way to shift the point of view and with the sudden rupture of normality which are vital pillars in the construction of a story that works and that bound and are intimately related to the nature of sf. Next to the diagram of the Sentinels, the title of a short story by Fredric Brown Sentinel, with the punch line that breaks down the mental picture that the reader has taken shape in reading, challenged the certainties, and there are other no less effective stylistic registers. Not with a bang in ( http://olivavincenzo.blogspot.com/2009/08/fantascienza-il-classico-la-mano-not.html ) Howard Fast set an event in the most extraordinarily surreal ordinary daily images and let the two elements clash with mocking irony to the formal end where the 'understatement reaches its peak. In Chief famous story of the early '60s, Henry Slesar, one of the most prolific writers of the short story genre and teacher, showed him all the satirical potential of extreme brevity. Corrida looks like another variation on the road and theme. Zelazny brings the reader as if he were in front of a television screen and he does attend a cruel. The "show" opens on the sudden awakening of the still unknown and uncomfortable protagonist, who finds himself immediately thrown into what turns out to be an arena for bullfights. Sentence after sentence, the subjective value is defined on the protagonist and installing its anguish, frustration and anger, along with the anxiety of the reader. Reader who lives in the subjective narrative of complete disorientation of the character fell into an absurd situation ("I'm not a bull ! "), and his anger caused by pain of wounds received (inflicted by real banderillas ?) And the threat hanging over him, the reappearance of scraps of memory that does not explain or clarify anything, the psychological mechanisms of fear and blind rage, which is not difficult to imagine realistic point of view of the subject of bullfighting . Above all, the reader witnesses the vehement struggle of Michael Cassidy (who finally remembers his name) with the figure of his tormentor. Shadow black and fuzzy, does not say a word that does not seem to do anything, but every time he gets closer to Michael, or Michael approaches him, he reveals the pain that is inflicted.
The naked story "From fear" is colored in such a way that meanings remain soft and do not even find certainty in the end. Michael and the reader with him, he will question until the last about who or what constitutes dark shadow (perhaps God, or fate - or perhaps an alien might think the reader, but a solution seems so simple ...). Zelazny proceeds on a dual track of subtlety in the analysis of detailed thoughts and reactions of Michael and the development of the horror narrative mechanism, hardness and ruthless in the description of the bullfight to its obvious conclusion. The reader is not given an explanation, all interpretations remain at his disposal. At the limit - chi può dirlo? – potrebbe davvero essere stato uno spettacolo televisivo, ma l’ipotesi appare riduttiva. Sta di fatto che questa scheggia narrativa affonda la sua ragion d’essere nella pura suggestione che le idee richiamate da Zelazny posseggono ai nostri occhi e per la nostra mente. Il violento sacrificio rituale allestito nella corrida e il terrore atavico del cacciatore di diventare preda si compenetrano in un meccanismo che è rafforzato dalla non riconoscibilità e inconoscibilità dell’ombra nera e silenziosa e dall’inesorabilità e apparente insensatezza delle sue azioni. L’uomo crea Dio per ordinare il cosmo e renderselo comprensibile; ma se Dio infine apparisse all’uomo nella sua realtà, il attempt would fail because the human officer would no longer be his creative thinking to build the cosmological order, but the thought of God, from which man would be excluded and his psyche would be in pieces. It 's a possible solution to this short masterpiece, which thus comes to be clearly consistent with the major works of Zelazny at that time. Although this is not going specifically to a particular religious heritage and psychological - Hindu and Buddhist ones in the novel Lord of Light ; myths in Egyptian Creatures of Light and Darkness ; Christian myths in the story along A rose for Ecclesiastes, one of the most beautiful by Zelazny, the Greeks finally in the short novel This immortal - but working on a more general level. And, one might say, theoretical.
Corrida was published several times in Italy, the first anthology of personal Zelazny The Infinity Mountain (and other stories) published by Fanucci. Later also in uranium n.815, 44 micro-fiction first part of an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov trio, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, then in the tasty volumina gift 25 stories that made Urania.
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