Rodrigo Márquez Tizano's debut novel, 'Jakarta,' takes on love, loss and longing in a small, imaginary nation.
Rodrigo Márquez Tizano’s debut novel, “Jakarta,” is a journal of the plague years. Or, more accurately, of the post-plague years, although such eras here are one and the same. Set in a small, imaginary country in Latin America, the book is a kaleidoscopic take on love and loss and longing, written in a voice that is sharp and cynical yet somehow without despair.
Tizano grew up in Mexico City, and has been the editor of Vice in Mexico and Argentina. But the allegory he spins is not so narrowly defined. Rather, “Jakarta” is an examination of memory and meaning, played out against a social order that has essentially collapsed. This is the result of contagion; Atlantika, the fictional city in which the book takes place, has suffered an ongoing series of epidemics that stretch back longer than anyone can recollect.
“[I]t’s impossible to establish an end,” he continues, “for the same reason it’s impossible to know the nature of the beginning.” This is the way it is, in other words, because it has always been the way it is. Time is flat, or it is a circle. “[T]he fact that we survived the epidemics,” Tizano elaborates, “suggests that we are condemned to stick around.”, “Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing.” A similar sensibility infuses “Jakarta.
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