Eduardo Ruiz Sosa's 'El paisaje es un grito' Completes a Tetralogy

Eduardo Ruiz Sosa (Culiacán, 1983) has published his third novel, 'El paisaje es un grito', which completes a tetralogy with his previous works 'Anatomía de la memoria' (2014), '¿Cuántos de los tuyos dices que han muerto?' (2019), and 'El libro de nuestras ausencias' (2022), all published by Candaya. The novel follows four deported characters—Baldor, the genízaro, Caticha, and Lombardo—traveling from Tijuana to the Origen. The narrative blends realism and absurdity, exploring themes of displacement, violence, memory, and extraction. The book's nine chapters take their titles from 'La Celestina' by Fernando de Rojas. Influences include Juan José Saer, Juan Rulfo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Armonía Somers, and Vladimir Nabokov. The novel incorporates elements of theater, chronicle, travelogue, and border fable, with a hybrid language mixing orality and poetry. It addresses extractive violence, Canadian mines, drug trafficking, and territorial devastation. The work has been described as a 'system' of images and ideas, with a haunted, spectral quality. The ending features octopuses climbing a mountain, symbolizing displaced beings.