The Accordionist’s Son
In The Accordionist’s Son, Bernardo Atxaga brings the horrors of recent history to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that it feels organic like few fictional worlds have. Atxaga’s ability to so effectively evoke the feelings of place gives the town of Obaba a synecdochic effect – Obaba is Franco, Spain in the same way that William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County is the post-Reconstruction South and Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo is Latin America. Such mastery of place has allowed Atxaga to create a living record of his people’s untold history, one above and beyond what even the best revisionist historicist could hope to accomplish.
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