Time is not to be hanged. Diary of the early nineties

Time is not to be hanged. Diary of the early nineties, Manuel Alonso, Rafelbunyol, the Moorish quarter, 2008

This is the second diary I read by Manuel Alonso. With an obvious simplicity, the poet (writer and essayist) reviews the years from 1990 to 1994 through their own eyes. A resulting text, as I had the same author, the selection of the diary he has of those years. We found the thoughtful voice of the status of the writer that in his thirties wants to confirm his career. There are doubts, hesitations, sufferings of those who want to pursue writing and finding, through knowledge and conversation with other greatest writers, a comfort to their dedication.

The heterogeneity of the structure of the diary, there are recurring themes as suffering for the passage of time and the desire to recover the past in the present moment. The title selected for this second diary is, therefore, a success. Another element is fairly stated: “I have the feeling of living in a provisional status.” (P. 30). We also found a reflection on gender in moving this book: “It is clear that much of the literature and art revolves around me. What we can not pretend that the entire universe is rotating in orbit around a single I do. “(p. 20).

On the other hand, the reader interested in the portrait of the literary movement, especially poetic-nineties, both in Valencia and Alicante, with references to the creation of the magazine or Tuacte aljamiado. Thus, as the necessary references to co-commitment, as Vicente Peña, Ramon Guillem, Merce Claramunt, and many others mentioned in the diary. There are also references to the family, the immediate surroundings, to the language, customs and festivals. Ultimately, treatment literaturized the writer’s life in a few key years in his training.