Book Summary These Ruins You See

What is the book These Ruins You See about?

This work begins by narrating in great detail the history and geography of Cuévano, a small but well-arranged city, capital of the state of Plan de Below, which has a University from which practically all the characters that appear here emanate (Gloria, Espinoza, Aldebarán, Malagón, etc.)

The story is narrated in colloquial language by Aldebaran, who despite being a native of this city, no longer lived in her and returns to be chosen among various applicants to replace the Professor of Literature at the University of that place.

He tells us from the moment he travels from Mexico to Cuévano and the experiences he has in the General Zaragoza pullman car; It is there that he meets the Professor of Philosophy Enrique Espinoza and her wife Sarita, which is quite interesting to him from the first moment he sees her, because they are also a Quite rare marriage, he seems to have countless diseases and to be quite comfortable, since it is she who does all the tasks that commonly belong to men. Aldebaràn coincides in many circumstances with Espinoza, but it is not until they arrive in Cuévano and get into the same taxi at the request of the 2nd. who discover that they are colleagues.

He also shares this trip with a handsome young man with a good future (Rocafuerte) whom he looks at strangely and which is being a businessman and the future husband of one of his students -Gloria- whom he describes as the most beautiful in the world. town.

Upon arrival, he settles in the Padilla hotel, the place where all history resides. On the first day of it, a bench is organized in honor of Pascual Requena, who is not present due to certain inconveniences that arise and that end up causing him to resign from his position.

Later he tells of the drunkenness he shares with his friends and how Malagòn gets into trouble, but his friend Sebastián Montaña gets him out of jail, likewise the troublemaker tells Aldebaràn that Gloria suffers from a heart disease, which In the first orgasm that he has, it will end his life and in the whole work he believes it to be true, being the point where he practically turns everything.

The narrator tells us with special emotion about all the occasions in which he sees Gloria, as well as all the encounters that she has with Sarita, who after a day in which he goes to her house to give her some money and tell her that her husband won the lottery she ends up being her lover for quite some time, until they believe that Espinoza is suspicious, besides that her children and the servant return to the town.

In short, throughout the play he tells us about the various experiences that he has in his hometown and how he contemplates with "horror" the Gloria's next marriage with Rocafuerte due to her illness which is not evident at any time, is until almost the end of the work that Malagòn tells him that it was all a drunkard's lie and Rocafuerte corroborates it by describing the several times that it has resisted a orgasm.

In the end we are given to understand that Aldebaràn ends up making her impossible love come true, because describes a situation with Gloria exactly the same as the one he experienced with Sarita the first day he they intimated.

What does she serve us for the book These Ruins You See?

It seems to me that this work, like the previous two, applied to administration, serves us in a certain way. a way to know a little more about the human factor, which, as we all know, is practically unpredictable.

In it we are described various situations that explain at the same time different psychologies and realities of the different characters that develop in it.
It also deals with a culture different from the current one, because in addition to the fact that history does not take place in a large city such as Mexico, it is not the current time either, It is the past where the way of thinking is conservative and the way of life is also very different, although we have the case of various characters who seek to break the rules and fight for what they want, it is for people like the one in these cases that large companies emerge and evolve, it is for enterprising people, brave and with a dynamic spirit that the The world changes and for the better, it is through them that new ways of thinking and living emerge and along with this new organizations, new technologies, new products, creative things, which are very beneficial, as long as they do not absorb us as happens in many cases, because above all, the most important thing will always be the human being and this should never be forget it.

Ibargüengoitia Jorge, These ruins that you see, Mexico, 1975, Ed. Joaquín Moritz, 181p.p.