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"Genesis" by Bernard Beckett

Genesis, Bernard Beckett, ed. Salamandra, 2009
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Genesis came recommended by a good customer of the store and owner of a large web page about science fiction, fantasy and terror. I referring to the great library of The Library of Kraken. He spoke to me and recommended me this short novel much calling it a reading that had enjoyed. As I like to heed their advice, a weekend I caught a very clear example and zampa me a shot. And yes, Genesis is a very good novel and has an inspiring story that invites reflection and being caught in the tangle that cleverly weaves Beckett.

argument points back cover of the issue of Salamander.

In the not too distant future, a student named Anaximander is submitted to rigorous entrance exam to the Academy, the governing body the utopian society in which he grew up. Over several grueling sessions, the court's questions, which raise important ethical and philosophical issues, the way to discovering a truth that will shake the foundation on which sits the world.

Vale. As we noted in Alendax your review of this novel, this is a science fiction novel. I know that in saying this, many readers have pulled back, but I think it is my duty to call upon all those outside the genre that give an opportunity for a different novel, exciting, addictive and very complex. We are facing a short novel (barely cientosesenta pages if I remember correctly) but written with the wisdom of the right word. Nothing superfluous, nothing missing and everything is about something.

The novel is structured through a conversation. Question, answer. Reply contraréplica. This form of narration, the reader far from boring, full of liveliness and grace to the story. A story about politics, philosophy, life and death. That addresses issues such as the rewriting of history, social utopias, artificial life, evolution, revolution and death. And all with a lively style, fresh, sour, biting, ironic and precise.

The characters are exciting. Characterized with four strokes that breathes life and realism. In addition, and playing with the themes of the novel, allowing large doses of ambiguity as some of the main actants appear from the viewpoint of other characters. There is a game of identity (one of the main themes of the story) that the reader has to complete. Because this is a novel that asks the reader to make an effort. Involved in the puzzle and draw your conclusions. Think and act. Because as any science fiction novel that boasts, Genesis is nothing more than a story set in the future to talk about our present.

A powerful and be surprised given the lace perfect end to a great novel (though the author has kept an ace up manga and I can not help but feel some soreness for a very justified and necessary trap) full of great concepts, intelligent and readers looking for something more than mere entertainment. That is why books like this that reading and diving among youth literature deserves such a long sentence.