The Invincible Armada, a journey full of metal through youthful horizons - SinEmbargo MX

2022-09-17 18:22:36 By : Mr. Yibin Chen

Mexico City, September 17 (However).- Popular history remembers the Invincible Armada as "that 17th Spanish fleet that was shipwrecked before even going into battle."And another story, told by Antonio Ortuño, which recalls the footsteps of the other Invincible Armada, a Mexican metal band whose four members, Barry, Yulian, Mustain and Isaías, were nothing short of succeeding, except that fate sank in its own way.Named like this: La Armada Invincible (Seix Barral), Ortuño's novel is constructed as a documentary about the great metal bands of history to talk —from fiction and humor— about the survivors of this group that to their Forty-odd years trying to get up from the jolt that life has given them and return to the lost path.“At a certain point in life you stop and say 'how did I get here, what happened to that other person.'Of course, that is a somewhat dramatic acknowledgment, but it is also a bit funny because we are not zombies who have been lost for 25 years, we make the decisions we make rationally or driven by circumstances and, well, things took us and we know very well why we are there, However, we deplore that day or a good day that strangeness of how I ended up here and how I gave up such a thing, ”said the author in an interview with SinEmbargo.Ortuño reconstructs the shipwreck of the members of this group from Jalisco based on an “album structure with the chapters as songs with two parts, with an A side and a B side”.In this way we know the melancholic perspective of Yulian through the paths of his life as an enlightened divorcee who survives thanks to his friendship with El “Gordo” Aceves, always longing for what he could have been and was not;and on the other hand, the reader fills in the remaining gaps through the eyes of Barry, the leader of the gang who decides when to fight their battles.