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Fraternity
by
Juan Díaz Canales
José Luis Munuera
128 pages
Published
October 2nd 2018
by Lion Forge
ASIN:1941302513
Edition Language: English
BLURB: 1863: during the American Civil War, the inhabitants of New Fraternity, Indiana, find themselves far from the front lines of the conflict embroiling the United States but still constantly under threat from it; food is scarce, deserters come to seek asylum, and a mysterious feral beast that walks on two legs prowls the forest around the town. The beast seems to have some connection to Emile, a feral child found a few years earlier who had been taken in by the townsfolk during simpler times. As their fear and paranoia grows, the townsfolk start to hunt the beast and turn on each other, with tragic results that threaten to undo all that they have been working toward.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
En 1863 se funda una colonia en Estados Unidos con las ideas utopica de igualdad (con una base socialista y atea), en esta historia se muestran los problemas de los habitantes de New Fraternity , sus disputas internas ideologicas y las mundanas como que llevarse a la boca. El fundador original, Robert McCorman ya esta viejo y se convierte en testigo impotente de como los turbulentos tiempos de la Guerra de Secesion no hace más que intensificar las diferencias entre clases sociales y raza.
Al desasociego se suma la presencia de un chico salvaje encontrado en el bosque y traido al alero del pueblo, Emile parece enlazado a un extraño ser humanoide que exacerba la superstición y el odio entre los habitantes.
Abunda la sangre y la violencia en la historia. Y por el claro fin ideologico es para los más mayores. La idea del laberinto parece apuntar a que estas ideas van embrollandnse llegando o no a buen puerto.
Ningún personaje es del todo bueno.
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English review :
In 1863, a colony in US founded upon
utopian ideas of equality (with socialism and atheism basis) is depicted
with struggles between their members to survive . The founder , Robert
McCorman is old, and soon is just witness to the turbulent times of war
does nothing to help if not rather to emphatized differences of classes
and race.
A wild child found in the forest and a strange creature with whom he has connection, pushes the story into a fabled context, where innocence finds naked violence and a labyrinth that perhaps or does not represent how many ideas remain in nothing or as in the end you can only hope to reach the center without finding the solution that is expected.
Realistic and violent. And /SPOILER--- there is a hint of ciclical recurrence ---SPOILER
story - 3
art - 4
No character is blameless and there is not a clean conclussion.
No es un género que suela leer y la verdad es que no me atrae mucho.
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Hola , gracias por ser sincera. A mi me atrajo el dibu, pero la verdad es que no me mató.
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