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Books : Fiction : English
 

Albert
S?nchez Pi?ol was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1965. He is an anthropologist and writer whose writings have appeared in
several 
journals. Cold Skin, his first novel, was originally published in Catalan in 2003. It has been translated
into fifteen different languages and has
won the Ojo Critico Narrativa Prize. 



   The new
weather official arrives at his Antarctic island outpost only to find that the man he should be replacing is nowhere to
be found. His 
only company is the Austrian lighthouse-keeper, who seems to have gone insane. What has happened?
When night falls upon the island
, the answer becomes horribly clear.
   Cold Skin begins in the mode of a
particularly well written gothic fantasy or ?weird tale??but instead of dedicating the slim novel to the 
slow
unveiling of an indescribable horror/unnamable evil/unpronounceable eldritch fiend,
 Pi?ol gives us most of the
answers we think we want within the first thirty pages, then steers us into deeper waters. The ultimate destination
 is an uncharted fictional territory somewhere between H. P. Lovecraft 
and J. M. Coetzee.

 
Immediately, the desolation of the setting warns us that we?re in for a bit of allegory. Two men, one island, no escape?
it?s the classic 
laboratory of fiction. All the details that would locate and limit the action have been pared
away: the island itself is unnamed, we don?t know 
what year it is, and our anonymous narrator, the weather
official, is weirdly blank. An Everyman cipher, he?s literally and figuratively a man
 without a
country?figuratively, in that he feels betrayed by the politics of the nation he?s left behind; literally, in that he
never tells us where he?s 
from. We?re never even told what language he?s speaking to the Austrian in the
lighthouse, except that it probably isn?t German (or
 Catalan, for that matter, the Iberian tongue the novel was
actually written in).
   The subtext, as it plays out, does seem a little simplistic at first. In addition to the
cold-blooded (and -skinned) alien enemy that crawls 
onto the beach that first night, the narrator must contend
with the second, internal threat of his paranoid neighbor, whose perversity 
deepens abysmally as the novel
unfolds. The Serlingian irony of their situation will seem familiar to any reader who owns a TV set (?Huh! It 
makes ya wonder who the real monsters are!?), but the neat lesson we find ourselves set up for?about Violence and
Colonialism and so
 forth?is complicated and universalized by a much more affecting story, about lowercase-i
idealism, so that even if the plot arrives at a 
conclusion we might have predicted, it has become strange enough
in the telling that its emotional impact is undiminished.
   More important than all of this, Cold Skin is
enjoyable right on the surface. In the description of each moment, the details are
idiosyncratic
 enough for the writing to be really comic or disturbing when the story calls for it. Even after the
first couple of chapters, when the ?horror? and
 ?mystery? plots slack off a bit, the ?survival? plot is enough to
sustain the novel?s forward motion. But I?m making Cold Skin sound far more 
straightforward than it really
is?there?s plenty of action and suspense, but the genre is just a little distorted, as in one of those French ?crime
? films in which the crooks or the detectives or whoever just seem to sit around smoking instead of shooting at each
other.
   The payoff in this novel is the same as it is in those movies: we are actually allowed to think about
these characters, deeply enough that 
when one of them commits an act of violence, it means something to us. And as
our narrator?s sanity and humanity begin to erode under the 
island?s impossible conditions, we register his
terrible progress with the low, profound chill of self-recognition.

?Dan Johnson



                                                             

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