... They were young and had no history
A book like 'Emmaus' (Anagram), only be written from the perspective gained by the years, from the wisdom given the experience from the clarity that gives understanding. So Baricco has written this novel now and not before. When the facts, the story to tell, has passed through the sieve, the sieve of time. And from that perspective can tell us how much religious education which condemns and blame can lead to tragedy. The protagonists of 'Emmaus' are four boys in his adolescence, four inseparable friends, who enter the adult world through sex and other friends. Normal as any teenager is passing through will most likely experience and see how those who once were friends and they have nothing in common, a meeting place, a place. Adolescence is most often the way for a child friendly definitely left behind the others and created new interests. That is normal. It is not normal because of poor education that path ends in tragedy. This abnormality is the Alessandro Baricco sheds light on 'Emmaus': as a practicing Catholic education and subjugated over generations, blaming everything on a hypocritical morality of the faithful. It uses four boys who like any teenager believed to know everything about life and knew nothing and the burden of guilt imposed, taken as part of their being, they pointed the way most tragic of all. 'Emmaus' is good novel that gives a sharp blow at the heart of the Catholic Church, its uses and customs. Many readers will undoubtedly be reflected in its pages, as Baricco very Mediterranean with its narrative does not leave nothing out and expands to taste, explicitly telling each scene from the fairest to the most rugged, from the sexual and sensual to the most pious. Another success of one of the best authors present Mediterranean.
... Then I went back to the gestures that he knew, finding them again one by one. For the latter, I wanted to leave the church again on Sunday to play. There were other boys, by then, a new band, the priest could not run out, so we had replaced. They were young and had no history, so to speak ...
© MARÍA SANZ AIXA
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