The fairie´s collector

The fairie´s collector by Arnal Ballester, Alzira, Bromera, 2009
The format, frankly, seduces. It is a well-constructed novel and suggestive, but it lacks the grit, the strength you’d expect when opening a new book. Hit the jury, although he lacks the spirit that curiously looking for the same protagonist. A fictional recreation of the world of Lewis Carroll that undoubtedly provides the boundaries between what would be the creation of a world for children and obsessions of writers, including the mysterious protagonist of the novel is the diary.
The reflections of the pederast-an expert “tale” (p. 148), as he himself says, in the manner of Crimes of Love (2000) of M. Mercè Roca make you into the mind of the patient: “Now I turn into a predator.” Am I? “ (P. 30). Some doubts and remorse logical characters is a deacon of the Anglican Church and greatly appreciates the moral rigidity of Queen Victoria. As in the history of rock, as a reader, you wander and understand the complex world of the person who is attracted to minors, but they consider their action as a crime. Surely you need the reader of books such as this is not only an understanding of the character, but a more poignant reflection on how this is possible, that is, a more critical and direct message against those actions of which only transmits a beautiful description incomplete.
Fragments of large poeticity as “Memory can use some memories engraved on the stone of my dermis” (p. 33).

Like the constant references to “the other side of the mirror” that we relocate, no doubt, in the world of writer Lewis Carroll and the relativity of conceptions of human behavior: “I write books that are on the other side of the mirror “(p. 82).

Nevertheless, the descriptions about the joys of reading (p. 186) and willingness to address a potential reader (p. 197) the daily novel becomes a kind of game that attracts metaliterary undoubtedly the reader.