FOREWORD
Game of Numbers is a cool and dynamic story that allows us to enjoy landscapes, friends company and a young Mexican man’s family who, in his twenties, faces the numerical game of a credit that he and his closest are part of. This is not a pretentious project but honest words that show the warmth and bohemian spirit of a young man who faces the consistent demand of his red numbers. These balances are entwine with a personal quest, which balances fraternal responsibility with his basic vital definitions. The concretion, closeness and vitality of characters in this story, contrast sharply with abstraction, remoteness and requirement of the alienating numbers of a debt. The author allows us to transit along with the character between these two poles, in which spontaneity and gratuity of this young man are at stake. It is so that this story introduces us to the feelings and thoughts of a young man who belongs and not to a corporate world, since what he finds strange is precisely what intertwines him with his emotional relationships and clarifies his destiny.
The intensity and emotionality of the character will allow the reader to travel the sections and chapters of his life with the transparency of a young person. It is a story for those who enjoy the humanity that underlies the emotions along by conclusive judgments or lessons that open space to close conversations between friends; conversations that are not intended more than enjoying the presences around a table or take place to comforting moments along by small and simple things which become meaningful. Curiously, at the end of the story, perhaps for the reader the credit’s history outcome comes to a second term and a pleasant feeling remains of having met and walked along this young man. I celebrate Etan’s dedication and will to share with us this story. Definitely, a story that will be followed by others.
Miguel Ángel Cuanalo Gómez
August 24, 2019, Bachajón, Chiapas
Los caminos de la vida
The ways of life
Son muy difícil de andarlos
are very difficult to walk
Difícil de caminarlos
Hard to walk them
Yo no encuentro la salida
I can’t find the way out
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Los Diablitos, (1993)
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