RENÉ AVILÉS FABILA

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Volume I

TANTADEL

AND

THE SONG OF ODETTE

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(2001)

[Primera edición: 1975 y 1982]

About these novels the specialized critic has commented:

Odettes’ song brought me suddenly vivencias of my adolescence, of my youth and still of my maturity. Sentimental Vivencias, perhaps romantic, caused by a text whose intellectual rigor and master are outside of doubt, although they don't exclude to my view, the emotion that ennobles to any form of literary task, still to that of more abstract appearance. ...

Luis G. Basurto

To love Tantadel

Alberto Dallal

Volumen I: Tantadel and The song of Odette

Volumen II: The games

Volumen III: The great alonely of Palace

Volumen IV: Memoires of a communist (Machinescript found in a trash of Perisur)

Volumen V: Fantasies on carrousel I

Volumen VI: Fantasies on carrousel II

© Copyright, 2002

... When the misfortune of the love, to mention this case, is good to express values that transcend the pure personal existence and show the human kaleidoscopic, the falseness of the recommended archetypes and socially accepted, then we witness the greatness of the literary phenomenon. Such is the case of Tantadel

Humberto Musacchio

In Odette’s song  the magic realism it is shaken hands with a fleshed naturalism and cruel; of a page of anger we pass one of dream... René's book has the strength of a fervent, intense and volcanic, hot and powerful vocation

Rafael Solana

Tantadel marks a new address in the novels of Avilés Fabila. It is not a political satire but a (infinitely subtler) of certain sector of the society carried out by means of a history of love. In what refers to the characteristics of the period that we try he/she leaves from the reference to the 68 and he/she comes closer to the narration autorreferencial. Indeed, besides being a history of love, he/she refers equally to the history of the narration of a history of love. The narrator goes to Tantadel and he also refers to her. It counts the history and at the end of the text the narration begins. If the reader is identified with Tantadel, it will experience the history of love, if not his experience will be the search of a reader.

John S. Brushwood

The book is aggressive because of the intensity with which it was written: kind of a great I relieve in the one that a character.. he/she doesn't stay anything and it is proclaimed against the fidelity, the maternity, the respect and other values that some, as the character in question, consider bourgeois. (Tantadel)

José Agustín

Odettes’ song  is a beautiful novel, sugerente, that has the precise tone that he/she needs this thematic of the author... With humor, with imagination, with sarcasm - and at the same time with love, nostalgia and a certain pity - disecciona to a society with which seems to fight every day.

 Mempo Giardinelli

Tantadel is one from those near literary fruits to the perfection. They exist for themselves and it would be said that they don’t need author; although without him they would not exist.

Rubén Salazar Mallén

A great underlying tension exists in the whole novel among all the polarities, and this, at least for the reader as me, it is something fascinating.  (La canción de Odette)

José Agustín