Allá te va esa novela

Question

Allá te va esa novela, lector amigo; allá te van esas páginas desaliñadas o incoloras, escritas de prisa, sin que ni primores de lenguaje ni gramaticales escrúpulos hayan detenido la pluma del autor.

There you go this book, reader friend. there you have these scruffy or colorless pages written in a hurry, without either fineness of tongue nor grammatical care having stayed the pen of the author.

So Allá te va esa novela seems odd what does it mean? It should be in Mexican Spanish this book. Seems a tough read, but a worthy one.

I went on Amazon and read the first few pages; it seems like a very interesting novel. Do you know, is it written in the style of "magical realism "? It seemed from the first few pages that it might be of that genre. - mountaingirl123, Dec 19, 2010

Answer 1

Well, I haven't given it too much thought, to be honest. So much of language is in the nuances and the idioms, which cannot be literally translated. Off the top of my head I would suggest that it has more of an active meaning in this case than "tiene" might, although that's just a gut reaction on my part. "Va" implies more movement to me, in the sense that the novel is moving along through the reader's life.

Answer 2

Esa novela" is the subject of "va"..."Allá te va esa novela" - something along the lines of, "so that's the novel, dear Reader" or "So here you have that novel, dear Reader".

¿Cuál novela es?

Answer 3

Angelina by Rafael Delgado. So "va" is used like "have" there? So "Allá te va" is like "Allá tienes esa novela" I wonder why IR is used like that, is it a common use? Gracias.