“The interior children’s workshop” (Sum, 25) is the title of the third novel of David Martínez Álvarez. It is the first to publish having already fired the stages, but it is still not linked to the world of music. On this occasion, and as already happened with “The approach of the Cactus woman and the globe man” (Sum, 23), is inspired by one of its own topics, specifically in “my self” of its third long duration.
In short, the novel could be said that “The Interior Children’s Workshop “ It is his “Love Actually” particular. We find five stories that, at the beginning, the only thing they have in common is to have the initial location Madrid, and page by page are going from being parallel stories, to drying to become coincident.
Stories that are loaded with emotion and traumas. Because here there is no wound without touching and, almost well, no one without representing. Embodied in Tirso, Mérida, Coral, Guzmán and Ovid, the experiences of these characters surely manage to connect at some point with each of their readers, either through the wound of abandonment, of betrayal, rejection, humiliation or injustice. Some wounds that we can afford to live in a unique way since, as the author himself confirmed, they can be traveled independently, reading only the chapters in which he is said character. Undoubtedly, this gives the novel an added value, causing you to have finished it, they want to revive the one that has cured you most (or wounded).
“The interior children’s workshop” It forces us in some way to connect with our childhood traumas through these five stories and, perhaps for some, serve as healing therapy. Hence the importance of an anchor character as it is a guada (the psychologist) that is the one that manages to unravel the knots of each of them doing or saying just what they need. It is a book created from many emotional places that are divided into each of the characters – both main and secondary – and converge in the pure style “Inside Out”.
It is true that this theme so sentimental and therapeutic has little to do with the love story of his first novel or the vindictive spirit of the second, although it contains traces of the two. But what it maintains is that essence that, as with its music, let you know from the first page who is its author.
What does not surprise us by reading David’s new is the humanity that his characters convey. He would not surprise anyone to find the suit Guzmán walking through the Castilian, Tirso signing books by Sant Jordi or finding us in our first therapy session with the very guided. It is something that seems very simple but that to achieve this, the author has had to open more than ever to transfer some of his fears to the letters. Although what is most removed from reality is that final therapy session that, although justified within its pages, is far -fetched enough to see the line between reality and fiction.
In short, to read “The interior children’s workshop” You have to be prepared to face those traumas that, although they are hidden and buried, surely come to light. It is a novel in which they go through many emotions, but if you let yourself take, it may bring you more than a simple reading.
Bonus Track for staunch readers: there is a character that will excite those who have followed the literary works of the Alcalaíno. Because, yes, he continues to expand his own literary universe, a kind of UCM, in which his three novels live together and in which his characters continue to evolve, something that will cause more than a smile.
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