"Blind Josef Pronek": a room with no view

• Autores: Ricardo J. Sola Buil
• Localización: The Short Story in English [Recurso electrónico]: crossing boundaries / Gema Soledad Castillo García (ed. lit.), María Rosa Cabellos Castilla (ed. lit.), Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (ed. lit.), Vincent Carlisle Espínola (ed. lit.), 2006, ISBN 8481387096, págs. 878-890
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This short story by a Bosnian writer living in America, Aleksander Hemon, shows the conflict between dream and reality, hope and desperation, challenge and survival. In “Blind Josef Pronek”, each one of the images and each one of the sequences is treated with great economy and selective language, with precise metaphors that evoke sounds, flavors, colors, sensations and feelings. The sum of these sensorial images allows Hemon to build up a conflict between the world of Nature of Thoreau, Cooper or Whitman presented as hope, illusion and challenge for the first Americans, a world to discover, to colonize, to recreate, and the reality of a country met by Pronek in which that dream seems to have disappeared leaving just accident, incident and survival. Pronek’s recognition of his non-identity goes hand in hand with a process of deconstruction of the American dream. Pronek, the central character, walks a path towards his own self-anagnorisis and self-discovery, a path in which he is progressively the immigrant other, the invisible other, and the blind other in a “room with no view”.