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The Crossing: Border Trilogy (2): Vol 2 (Vintage International)

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The Crossing in this asymmetrical fashion? Does he employ a similar structure elsewhere in this book? Is its overall structure similar to that of All the Pretty Horses? The Crossing is a book of dreams and auguries. Early in the novel Boyd has a dream of people burning on a dry lake [p. 35]; Billy dreams he sees his father wandering lost in the desert and being swallowed by darkness [p. 112]. Later in his journey, Billy is taken in by Indians whose elder calls him "huerfano"–orphan [p. 134]–thus predicting the murder of his parents. What is the role of portents–both accurate and inaccurate–in this book? Stavo cercando prove dell'intervento di Dio nel mondo. Ero arrivato a credere che quell'intervento fosse dettato dall'ira e credevo che gli uomini non si fossero mai interrogati a sufficienza sui miracoli della distruzione. Sui disastri di una certa grandezza. Credevo vi fossero prove del fatto che tutto ciò era stato tenuto in scarsa considerazione. Pensavo che Lui non si sarebbe dato premura di cancellare tutti i segni del proprio intervento. Avevo molta voglia di sapere. Pensavo che magari Lui si divertisse addirittura a lasciare degli indizi.

It is in the early 1940’s when Billy Pelham sets out on his first of three trips from his home to Mexico. He is sixteen and his first trip is to reunite a female wolf about to pup with others of her kind in the mountains where she came from. Voglio solamente dire a chi è arrivato fino in fondo, che questi libri vi distruggono. Non vi cambiano la vita, non vi salvano. Vi distruggono. La bellezza ha quest'effetto. This spiritual aspect to the novel creates a sense of depth. The instinctive behaviors of wolves, the unexplainable cruelty of man, and the peaceful nature of people unencumbered by modernity are periodically explored. It’s this exploration, however, that is drawn out a bit more than necessary at various points throughout the novel.En realidad el mundo sigue un camino que no está fijado en ningún lugar. ¿Cómo iba a estarlo? Nosotros mismos somos nuestro propio viaje. Y por eso también somos el tiempo. Somos como el tiempo. Huidizos. Inescrutables. Despiadados.”

An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Critics disagree about the greater significance of Billy's encounters with the wolf. Wallis Sanborn argues that “[a]lthough noble, Parham’s mission to return the captured she-wolf to Mexico is abjectly flawed . . . [it is] nothing more than a man violently controlling a wild animal through the guise of pseudo-nobility” (143). [4] Raymond Malewitz argues that the wolf's "literary agency" becomes visible when Billy's way of thinking about the wolf conflicts with the way the narrator describes the creature. [5] The novel mentions other locations in the US where Billy visits. However, these locations were primarily used to establish a sense of time between his second and Third Mexican journeys. Other places in the US are also mentioned during the end of the book, but again, these mentions are more to set the mood rather than serve as an actual part of the plot. As such, these extraneous locations are not shown on the map. Most of the protagonists are people of few words; thus the dialogues are few and concise. Additionally, since much of the interaction is with Mexican people, many parts of dialogues are written in untranslated Spanish. Anche il periodo storico è simile, qualche anno prima di Cavalli selvaggi: dal 1949, questa volta l’azione si sposta a pochi anni prima e durante l’ultima grande guerra.Sono qui a causa di una certa persona. Sono venuto a ricostruirne i passi. Forse a vedere se per caso vi fosse un percorso alternativo. Ma qui non si trova niente. Le cose separate dalle loro storie non hanno senso. Sono semplici forme. Di una certa dimensione e di un certo colore. Di un certo peso. Quando ne abbiamo perso il significato, non hanno più neppure un nome. La storia, d'altro canto, non può mai venir separata dal luogo al quale appartiene, perché essa è quel luogo. Ecco che cosa si poteva trovare qui. Il corrido. La storia. E come tutti i corridos, in fin dei conti raccontava soltanto una storia, perché ce n'è solo una da raccontare.

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