Is a moment in the life of a drive where the word "mouse" is seen invariably stuck to Kafka. No cockroach, not even metamorphosis, not on this scale, perhaps trial. But "mouse." Not Mickey or other small critter anthropomorphic mouse, but in general the idea of a mouse, individual as collective. When Roberto Bolaño entitled his novel "The policeman mice," we are already at least a little, sent. And when a few moments later we see that Jose the officer has an aunt called Josephine and is singer, no doubt, it simply can not be a coincidence: the latest novel written by Kafka (made in March 1924 and published April 20, Kafka then dying in a sanatorium) called Josephine the Singer, or the people mice.
In general, it is nothing really surprising, a few themes are related (authority, forgetfulness, loss, struggle, tunnels), even though processed differently, in Bolaño and Kafka, and here are found combined and nested a little deeper.
Mouse suppose history will take place in sewers, evocative place, both in appearance assumed that teeming cesspool by its existence, literally subhuman.
If both do not have much new report (The officer mice Pepe follows the cop in solving murders, insoluble even after one has found the culprit, while the singer Josephine tells the Josephine's story in relation to his audience, his voice as a way of rallying and convergence sad), both are covered with a morbid sadness and more importantly, as a last echo Josephine's name and presence, which would at the end of Kafka's text, are lost in oblivion prolific multiplied his brothers, still exists in Bolaño, granting him a stay real. The people souricier is seen in combination of the sewer, clothe an aspect of group invariably on the edge of disaster or catastrophe. This is also the aspect that prevails in Bolaño, where weasels and snakes blind are never far away, and where is the arrival of a conflict "internal" which launches the peregrinations of Pepe. Kafka there is certainly a conflict but it is muted.
The comparison, though it can probably be pushed (see the first few sentences already), will not be here. Simply knowing that the character of Josephine, spoke at the turn of dialogues between Pepe and other mice, actually corresponds to the figure she had in Kafka (for example, and to be quick: "Members of my people acceded or pretended access to its whims. "(p. 60, the gaucho unbearable table, we collective titles, Christian Bourgois), while a portion, if not the entire text is based on Kafka's ambiguous position more than one point she enjoys over other (all other) mouse, singing as an art that we do not include among its congeners, mistaking itself on this art). The officer
mice is also in its scale, a small part of For my cry .
