Comentem "Los proscritos de Poker Flat" de Bret Harte, "El Sur" d'Adelaida García i "El sentit d'un final" de Julian Barnes

On this occasion, the Club de Narrativa, together with David de la Rosa Gubau, will discuss three short texts. "Los proscritos de Poker Flat", by Bret Harte. Several characters are trapped in a mountain cabin. Among them is a violent outlaw, his wife, a wretched gambler, and a dancer, along with other undesirable characters. "El Sur", by Adelaida García. Adelaida García Morales published this short novel in 1985. It is a wonderful story about absence in which the relationship between a father and his teenage daughter is told, including her transition from childhood to puberty. The story also begins with a situation as painful as the suicide of the parent. Throughout the pages, the narrator tries to unravel the mysteries surrounding the paternal figure –a man of strange conduct– focused on finding the reasons that led him to end his life. In her search, Adriana realizes that there are fundamentally two: the flight from an impossible love and the abandonment of a child, although for her the most important thing is to delve into the father's suffering with the aim of understanding it. (elespanol.com) "El sentit d'un final", by Julian Barnes Booker Prize 2011 (for the best novel published in the Commonwealth and Ireland) Tony Webster is now a retired man of a tranquil life, amicably divorced, with a daughter and apparently at peace with his life. But when he receives a letter from a law firm, he will be forced to review his past, especially his teenage years. Just before going to university, his group of friends expanded with Adrian Finn, the most serious and intelligent of the four. With a hunger for sex and books, and no girls, they lived a very intense year and swore to be friends forever. Now, more than forty years later, Tony Webster realizes that many events may not have happened as he remembered them. Because memory is imperfect and can bring surprises to the surface. And, even, force you to reinterpret an entire life.