Tadeys

Written in Barcelona in the second half of 1983, Tadeys is Osvaldo Lamborghini's most sustained attempt to write a story adhering to conventional narrative rules. Of course, this adherence provides clues and adventures different from what any reader might imagine: advances, setbacks, digressions, and asides. To begin with, La Comarca, the territory of the Tadeys, covers an area larger than China. Furthermore, the creatures involved in this narrative are fragile, poignant, absolute victims that only Lamborghini's mastery could deem suitable for this oblique saga. Tadeys's biting irony multiplies the laughable circumstances, but it also bears witness to the painful biological process of the species described. In many of the scenes, the episodes - the boasts of making history (and even genealogy), the strange scenarios that the Lamborghini imagination enables, such as the "boats of femininity" - the weight of a recent history that is hidden in the depths of an inscrutable past can be heard.