There are those who conceive the novel as an extension of the biographical. AND Mitch albom, perhaps (with the permission of some other brilliant example like that of Karl Ove Knausgård) the most successful author in this hybrid genre between invented assumptions and his own vital references.
In a certain way it is only a matter of ending up sanctioning the best between the idealization of the passage of time and the few or many certainties that remain in the end of an already advanced existence. The adornment of literature serves for that reading with a final moral taste or, on the contrary, to total disenchantment.
Of course, in order to find the necessary juice to be able to squeeze as many stories sold as churros all over the world, the life of the author himself must pass under the conditions of experimentation, ingenuity, a traveling spirit and a soul engulfed in continuous challenges and discoveries.
Mitch Albom meets all those requirements in his varied performances throughout his life. But he also has that virtue to seek the fundamental analogy with any of the readers, that empathic notion that causes the connection with any of his books.
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Tuesday with my old teacher
Reissues only justify the significance of a work. And this story rabidly human in form but also essential, is acquiring the residue of a recurring classic in any bookstore.
The story of Mitch's encounters with his university professor Morrie Schwartz takes us to a kind of separate place in which the consciences of the two characters push us from their dialogue, their silences and their prolonged thoughts after each encounter, towards a place that it tunes in with any of our vital processes contemplated in that evolution of the years raised on the successes or the failures, always with the almost theatrical perspective that supposes to consider everything as the actors of our own script.
The harshness of the disease always points to that revision of time that is granted to us in the key of chance, of divine legacy or of punishment beyond paradise. And all this since a Tuesday in which Mitch goes with devotion to his meeting with Morrie. Because only Morrie already knows, at this point, in his capacity as a teacher of life, the meaning of things that seem to lose him along the way ...
The five people you will meet in heaven
Under this pretentious title we find an essay, a lengthy dissertation in the key of fictional fiction. The existential, that transcendental point openly manifested in the previous work is disguised on this occasion as a resource completely devoted to fiction.
The allegorical from the fantasy makes its way to address those existential edges that hang over our lives like swords of Damocles. Eddie arrives in heaven with that sensation of the accidental, of the hasty arrival, perhaps unforeseen even by God himself. But of course, he had to put his own life first to avoid a fatal outcome that would end up with that girl exposed in the amusement park where he always worked.
Perhaps it was that, the famous overconfidence that, under our free will, can lead us to the end. Eddie is surprised at what awaits him in heaven. Five key characters in their passage through the world and a kind of presentation whose basis for their presence can not even imagine the good of Eddie.
One more day
Again a novel to address those edges of life through which we sometimes move without realizing it. This time we suffer with Chick from that misplacement that is a bad moment, the worst of all for him.
No one can bear the same weight of his tormented soul when everything he wanted leaves him to fate. Amid the gloom of his days, Chick is willing to disappear from a world that cruelly repudiates him. The accident while driving only seems to be a foretaste of his will that only seeks death.
But in that representation of his possible last seconds on earth, everything is more prepared. After the intense lights of life, in that gloomy place that observes the stage, Chick accesses a new dimension where his mother, who has disappeared for years, guides him through a time that does not belong to him, teaching him that nothing can be lost. You can be if you learn to see how long you may have with different eyes. But of course, first he has to be able to recover from the accident that has led him on that magical journey from unconsciousness before the end.
