The narrative force, the hypnotic rhythm imbued with musical echoes, and the deep psychological depth of Taxi represent a qualitative leap in the work of Carlos Zanón. Sandino's vicissitudes shape an anunrivaledd character who will remain in th ...
The narrative force, the hypnotic rhythm imbued with musical echoes, and the deep psychological depth of Taxi represent a qualitative leap in the work of Carlos Zanón. Sandino's vicissitudes shape an anunrivaledd character who will remain in the memory of those who enjoy good literature.
"We have to talk," Lola tells her husband during breakfast. He answers that they will do so at night when he finishes his day in the taxi. Sandino is a melancholic man, who hesitates to return home because he fears that Lola, fed up with his infidelities, will leave him. He is not quite sure if he wants that to happen, just as he does not know if he likes being a taxi driver, if he is capable of loving someone, or if it is all about continuing to roll and crash, like a ball on a billiard table called Barcelona.
For seven days and six nights, Sandino wanders the streets and neighborhoods like a broken doll fleeing from itself, a predator wandering, from place to place, always at the discretion of the client, of boredom or of the opportunity to cauterize the wound in the most carnal way. And while his particular odyssey lasts, the stories of passengers, friends, and enemies mix and intertwine in his mind, a tangle of memories and ghosts of the past that draw an existential map of his life, of the life of the city, and of the characters who inhabit it. Perhaps in this way, in his escape towards nothingness, Sandino manages to free himself from his ties, from his spurious love, sand from the environment that grips him to reach a place he has never been.
Critics have said...
«Sandino, the melancholic taxi driver hungry for love who searches and flees through Barcelona to the rhythm of The Clash, is one of the most formidable characters in recent literature».
Isaac Rosa
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