Dec 17, 2021
Honestly, I have no idea why even after years there is still no review around here of a work that has a lot to say. So here I am for the first one, and perhaps the only one, unfortunately.
About the work, Morte goes from the beginning to the end of his narrative, always commenting, directly and metaphorically, on the future. About a world completely filled with misfortunes, where children who, knowing they contain a disease called Morte, which is completely unknown about its cause or a possible cure, which will inevitably cause them to commit suicide before reaching adulthood, they try to seek
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your own future in a dirty world, always denying the inevitable truth as much as possible.
Without spoilers, in the first volume we follow Sasha, a boy who was sold by his family to an orphanage called Doceo, a Morte center, which is what people with the disease are called. Morte, for me, has as its main asset since its first volume, a narrative extremely rich in details. From the beginning, it's as if you feel like you're in the character's own skin, where, indirectly, you start to understand every single detail of the personality of the one who narrates it, which is the case of Sasha. You, in a few pages, quickly understand what he is like, how he feels about his situation, and mainly, his point of view on Doceo. The way in which everything is told hasn't stopped fascinating me at all times in the work, progressing a little bit slowly, for always paying attention to clarifying some details.
Even secondary character development is not left out of this. Like the protagonist, the secondary ones also contain a very deep development, where everyone evolves together with the main character, always showing how the author manages to create and develop such human people. Each one gets incredible depth, being much more than you'd expect from a 3-volume novel.
The first volume, for example, never fails to show a dirty environment, where everyone there inevitably rendered for being in an outlaw and completely dismal place. The narration does not fail to express the suffering of the protagonists, to show that they are clearly cornered, while it does not stop creating more and more an incredible scenario about a mystery, not about the orphanage or wanting to create large plots to explode their mind, but only generate an absurd curiosity about how things progressed in a place where everything seems impossible.
In fact,Morte is a work a little different from the standard we see in the industry, being a work of mystery, romance, drama and suspense with extremely human people and well done at all times, from beginning to end. I would be lying if, for some reason, I dared to say that Morte is extremely innovative, or if I said that the novel is a diamond in the world of Japanese literary works. Morte in many moments is melodic, romanticizing things like a collective suicide attempt, or even a murder. In many parts, the characters' feelings are “expressed” in a way that could easily be associated with a Mexican soap opera, even managing to be boring in its dramatic way.
Naturally, I would have more to cite about positives as well as negatives about the novel, but my intention is just to introduce the novel to those 2 people who will read this review. Morte is not perfect. Is not it. But I could say that it is certainly worth your time for a short work, but different from many out there, as this novel is a common and classic example of a secondary work by an author who, as his fame was highlighted by another story (Fata Morgana), unfortunately ended up falling into limbo, even though it was such an interesting story. I recommend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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