"Links emotional and material" and entitled Heel Angela Belmar his approach to The moving day supplement published by the Lighthouse letters, newspaper Lighthouse (Murcia). With The moving day its author, Pedro Badran, was launched with the National Award for Short Fiction in Colombia with this story tells how the transfer of housing for a family became a descent into hell.
A work in the same way that we know deep feelings awakening in a father and a mother and her two children, a move, do not know hardly any information from them such as their names, except for its two offspring, Augustine and Camilla and their appearances, ie ignores Badran of the physical and superficial to contextualize them, preferring to delve into the emotions and even in the very objects that populate the house seem to cause.
After failing in business, the head of the family is in the position to transfer to their offspring to a neighborhood and a much more modest house. Until now enjoyed a social status that allowed them to maintain even a maid and a nanny, walls and furniture were decorated expensive decorative items and also the lady could afford to collect expensive jewelry. But after this negative situation, these circumstances are truncated, and the change of location also means a leap in the social scale that prevails in Colombia. At this time, loss of privileges is intimately related to the loss of affection for the parent and the psychological collapse of his wife. To this end, the attachment to that treasured belongings in their previous accommodation seems to be his reason for living, the meaning of life style that has always coveted, having to do without them, ignores want to live, and also the position bore, leading to shame. In short, the fact of being forced to move to the suburbs would prejudice his four personalities: now transmuted into completely different beings, including some of the objects that accompany them in their new life.
all these facts with the first charter with foreplay and awakening to the adult world of teen-although you know very well because as the last part of the book, in which drag this loss of confidence caused by the decline In this case, material, and hence the differentiation in the social ladder.
Colombian writer performed on the day of the move a fierce criticism of the society of appearances, where materialism and consumerism leading human relations in a style that highlights the superb play of tenses. So, invite each of the members of the clan to narrate his voice and his perspective on the breakup of his own family after the loss of social status, thus implying the loss of all privileges that are identified with a class high. However, at no time was about love, personal relationship or lasting affection that existed between them, is simply a pose to recreate the bitter resentment of a father and a husband who failed to financially protect their stock as was.
A nostalgic novel that engages a and again to return to the memories, mainly materials and among them include the lack of affection "that surrounded a family for the past and more splendid, as if it were a look at an old photo album. For them, his real life was one in which they enjoyed all the comforts of this only refers to the embarrassment and discomfort they cause, it is not the place they belong, is only a mediocre existence that has resulted in a widespread unhappiness.