Southern Front

ニカラグア革命末期の戦場に集まった国際義勇兵たちを、ロサンゼルス出身のチカーノ青年ウリセスを軸に描く連作短編集。

ニカラグア革命チカーノ文学連作短編政治と戦争

作品情報

国境の向こうで、革命と友情と暴力が交差する。

国際義勇兵としてニカラグアへ向かった若者たちの経験を、戦闘の終盤とその余波のなかでたどる連作。歴史の大きなうねりのなかに、個々の身体感覚や移動の記憶が刻み込まれる。

American Book Award, fictions set in Nicaragua

Great!

No problems.
Warning Spanglish

Overall this is a decent collection of impressionist war short fiction. However the author uses a literary technique that greatly annoys me. He writes in English about characters who are speaking to each other in Spanish and tries to convoy this feeling by having random sentences and phrases in Spanish. Yes, one can puzzle it out even with no knowledge of the Spanish language thanks to things like BableFish but it is an annoying affectation. I could understand if the book was written in Spanish. But random Spanish is just hokey and affected. IMO. YMMV.