The Lord Byron Central America

A great book!
Here is what writes Christopher Kantcheff in Politis:
"In" Pura Vida, "Patrick Deville expands its universe by opening the doors to history and politics, and dedicating his book to the forgotten revolutionaries of Central America.
If Pura Vida was a movie? but the means should be no less important and artistic standards for adaptation to the height of generic .Its novel unfold an abundant list of characters. They would include Simon Bolivar and Francisco Morazán, Narciso López and Louis Schlessinger, Augusto César Sandino and Tacho Somoza, Antonio de la Guardia and Roque Dalton, much more ... Characters whose imprint in history is more or less important, but which, according to the author, have all existed.
In reality, it was indeed one of Patrick Deville goals that bring together in the same adventure story, the same gesture, the men mostly forgotten Pura Vida is a book of men, where women hold only supporting roles, and again, often posthumously young women loved but lost or abandoned.
The generic, anyway, is explicit: the common denominator of these characters is not contemporaneity, since their lives are part of nearly two centuries, but the geographical area, Central America. Today consisted of seven small countries, where the narrator travels by plane, bouncing and "like a pinball ball [...]. Rarely more than an hour's flight from one capital to another. "
William Walker is the subject of the investigation he has chosen. William Walker? Born in the United States in 1824, fascinated by the figure of the poet Lord Byron died fighting to liberate Greece, lovesick young woman a victim of cholera, he embarked on armed expeditions with "wild-eyed and crazy conquerors ", surrounded every time a handful of mercenaries. To his credit: he was elected President of the Republic of Nicaragua. But victory is fleeting. And excess of his ambitions led him to 36 years on a Honduran beach at dawn, before a firing squad.
It is the story of this survey that tells Pura Vida, the restrictive finally subtitle, Life & Death of William Walker, since this causes the narrator on the trail of other adventurers who rubbed his hero, but of all those in the region carried by the iron of the Liberation and Justice dreams, and whose general patriot Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the "unsurpassable model." There are for example Augusto César Sandino, mythical leader of the "beggars" initiator in the 1930s of an ideal city on a virgin land of Nicaragua, performed by the first Somoza, Salvadoran poet Roque or Dalton, shot by his comrades guerrilla in 1975, or Ernesto Cardenal, one of Sandinista leaders, the narrator approach in Managua.
Pura Vida is a novel virtual meetings. If it were a movie, but this time the comparison is the author himself, he would come to "an extremely complex film material, capable of shooting at Simon Bolivar Avenue idling throughout its history . A camera that would have placed here by this bench, which would have recorded superimposed William Walker of the wars in the nineteenth century and the red and black flags of the Sandinista victory in the twentieth century. "No time, the horizontal structure of the novel highlights the chaotic bubbling (literally so: the 1972 earthquake has left traces) and revolutionary of the Central American isthmus, as if time there was compressed. The game over time, its acceleration, is a constant in the work of Patrick Deville.