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Memories of a Roman centurion

I, Cornelio, a historical novel of Michael Garnett

Ricardo Ayllon

literature is done in provinces never ceases to amaze. A few weeks ago raided the shelves of books in the center of Cajamarca, and I found the recent novel by Michael Garnett, a writer who always made me curious because it is an English priest who forty years ago as a permanent residence chose this city in northern Peru .
In his novel, Garnett paid tribute to his countryman Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius ) with a similar title: I Cornelius, history-well-supported part of the history of the Roman Empire, in this case, we approach a fictional biography written by the centurion who was responsible for directing the crucifixion of the "King of the Jews."
Cornelius is the name of the protagonist, who, twenty years after the crucifixion mentioned, tells us the years that was deployed to Palestine as part of the administrative and military company of Pontius Pilate.
For effectiveness of the story, the author has managed to inject other supporting characters in the plot, like Mark, the brother of Cornelius, interested in matters of philosophy, politics and ideology, or Claudia Procula, fine Pilate's wife, whose preferences are focused on knowing the qualities and virtues of the Roman cultures subjected. Together these agents appear historical (or real), as Herod Antipas, Annas, Caiaphas, and obviously, the protagonists of Jewish life and passion of Christ, including Barnabas, the apostle John (who at one point engages in conversation with the centurion and his brother), or Jesus himself called the novel 'the carpenter'.
True to the doctrine of the author, the book goes behind the social and human messages provided by the reflections of Cornelius and Marcos, who know circumstantial facts mixed in the life of Jesus from the moment he enters Jerusalem, proclaimed by his followers as the Savior, until the day he is executed. Many digressions arise surrounding the trial of the carpenter from the position of the Romans, the idea of \u200b\u200bjustice at that time, the lack of temperament of Pilate and the intrigues of the Jewish priests.
The book can be read easily because Garnett's prose is simple, as well as documentary (more than once matched the facts as established by the four biblical Gospels.) However, the means chosen by the author for the book (reports) makes it unlikely that the narrator drive in a modern narrative for dialogues such as the use of scripts. Might have given greater credibility to attempt a quiet story, lengthy and unambiguous, in the manner of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
However it is pleasing to find among the authors of our regions, the choice of topics historical nature, universal and sacred. A decade ago the Marco Cárdenas gave ayacuchano The Fifth Gospel, also supported the story of Christ, though, if the content was a radically different direction. Would not expect much to meet with a novel similar in our country.

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How to write writing

Cheats, secrets, cabals and hobbies Brizuela, Caparros, Castillo, Coelho, De Santis, Fogwill, Heker, Pauls and Pineiro. Moreover, different strategies: planning and improvising

For Ezekiel Vinacour

Every morning, Jorge Luis Borges recorded his dreams and then used that material to enrich their fictions. Ernesto Sabato had a habit of burning afternoon what had occurred until noon. And Carlos Fuentes said that composing "mentally" six or seven pages a day on a tour that included the home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Broch and Thomas Mann in Princeton.

But of all the stories about writers face when the routine of the office, perhaps the most singular belongs to Abelardo Castillo. Years ago, the author of Chronicle of a started suffering from a rare condition, felt he could not get to work without first wiping his typewriter. To do so, had a special little brush to review the types and avoid stopping. His stubbornness often was effective not allowed: as used kerosene, the mechanisms often ended up dirty and, at the end of the task could not be used. "When I wanted to agree, had spent three hours and had not written anything. I think that these things belong more to the area of \u200b\u200bdementia than the ritual area," says Castillo, a little joke, adncultura.

How writers write? How many hours do they work? What time of day? What strategies do you prefer to create plots and characters? What font used? The answers to these questions tend to be confined to the area of \u200b\u200binterviews and legends, rather than that of literary studies. However, provide valuable data when profiling an author and his work address.

Dashiell Hammett, who in his chaotic stage of Hollywood has moved to a suite at the Beverly-Wilshire and received his few visitors dressed in a costly robe with his initials, used to say that a man can do with your life what you want , but writing has certain principles to be respected. It is debatable whether Hammett's life ended with his writing or the writing ended his life. The only certainty, in any case, is that writers are creatures of habit and most of them have a weakness for the ritual and discipline.

Hemingway, who Paris was a party left many tips on the art of writing, said discipline is required to work every morning and to stop thinking about work when leaving your desk, so keep writing it alone in any part of mind. It also recommended to stop writing when the story flowed so smoothly you can take it up the next morning.

The writer, fatally, is made. And in doing so, the rituals and methods help. So thought Faulkner, who also had a rough recipe for any aspiring storyteller. According to the author of Light in August, required a 99% talent, 99% discipline and 99% working to do so.

course that talent and the discipline, many times, can look like chaos. A good example is the story of Antonio Dal Masetto in the process of writing your novel is always difficult to return home. To produce this work, the writer proposed to collect dialogues, notes on napkins characters and descriptions of bars and loose pieces of paper, which was accumulated in numerous boxes of shoes. To impose an order, divided the cases into three groups: beginning, middle and end. Continued until, at a time, put an end to that task, he sat in front of the machine, emptied the boxes and written material gathered from one page a chapter and finally the entire book. "It is a method not recommend it to anyone," he joked after Dal Masetto in an interview.

Another American who has revealed some of the strangest habits is Gay Talese. The author of "Frank Sinatra has a cold" confessed that their day does not start writing at his desk, but in the locker room on the fourth floor of his house. There, each morning she dresses like a Wall Street executive, with shirt and tie. When ready, down five floors to his bunker, a former warehouse without doors or windows in the basement of his home. Once there, she takes off the suit and puts on a common pants and a sweater. Works tirelessly to have a new page on your desktop. Once you have accomplished that task, again dressed like a banker and go home for lunch.

Behind the scenes, away from academic interpretations, some of the most important Argentine writers told him his work adncultura how they cope and how their habits and rituals are also part of his aesthetic. They talked about their fears and the ghosts who visit most often: the terror of the black page (the page full of writing useless), the blockade of creativity, the loneliness that surrounds the craft of the writer and the necessary balance dully always threatened between the genuine creation and writing "for money."

Source: Cultural DNA - Daily The nation