Mary Karr it has become a necessary reading in recent years. He opened fires with THE LIARS ‘CLUB, with painful autobiographical laughter, followed by ILLUMINATED that took a surprising turn and where Karr warned the reading public that you could start with either of the two with the same surprise effect: of those books that makes you want to stand up and clap when they close at the end.
- With THE CLUB OF LIARS, he won every award that had circulated considered the best book of the year in the media. Thus, another tome of these misadventures was inevitable.
- With its same quality, with its sardonic and dark humor, with its stark confession, with that dysfunctional family that is an abyss, LA FLOR emerges, the novel of Mary Karr’s adolescence: “My mother also had a secret marriage history precipitates and equally precipitated solutions ”.
- The sensitive and intelligent protagonist (the novel is written partly in the first person and partly in the second) suffers the impact of adolescence, loneliness, disconnection, distance: “I have the deep conviction that I am smarter than anyone else ( …) I don’t feel like crying on the way home. Somehow, I have reabsorbed the tears ”.
- Later he will say: “Once you have cried in silence, you lie on the bed with your hands clasped on your chest and you make up your skirt so that your panties are not visible. And in this position you await death ”.
- His mother, present in the other three novels of this kind of memoir, always surprises: “as a public school teacher, your mother is in favor of administering contraceptives through water from sources.” And everything that has to do with the sexual awakening of the protagonist, in me or in you, will be intervened and manipulated by a radically liberal mother, at times amusingly inappropriate, who does not respect the private life that is safe to protect her daughter from a wild world of drives and instincts.
- Reading THE FLOWER will make them want to follow in the footsteps of Mary Karr. Worth it. A strong author, one of those who make you laugh and also surprise. It will allow you to remember those stormy times, that fierce age that is adolescence.
Claudia Donoso Some time ago he had published a beautiful interview with Enrique Lihn: ENRIQUE LIHN EN LA CORNISA. This time he returns with impressive material: THE HIDDEN WORD: CONVERSATIONS WITH STELLA DÍAZ VARÍN where he rescues the mythical figure, legendary in the Chilean literary environment of La Corolina, poet, of full beauty in his youth, with a surprising biography and phrasing loaded with lyricism.
- “Men bore me because they annoy me with their demands and since I am a very comfortable person, I prefer to understand myself with angels. They do not ask you for anything, just your presence and your angel. Besides, I have a lot in common with them, because I’m neither a man nor a woman (…) I don’t pee, I don’t eat, I don’t make love. In other words, I don’t do anything that human beings do. I do things that virtual beings do: I write. I write poetry ”.
- The interview surprises in its puns, in its galloping metaphors. They talk while cooking, they go far beyond a formal interview. They are conversations of the human and the divine, both embodied in Stella Díaz Varín, in a volume that resurrects her with hairs, dreams, horrors, nightmares and fantastic yearnings.
MUSCLE FAILURE It is the first novel by Cristian Cristino, an author who comes from dramaturgy, trained in distinguished workshops and a student of dramatic art in Buenos Aires. Educated, resourceful, sensitive, Cristino gets into the world of bodybuilding and its deeper readings, its scars and misfortunes, if that is the case.
- “There are those who argue that large muscles are unnecessary. Obsolete ornaments of a time when brutality was the only ally of survival, but I think they are wrong “
- The narrator follows Rodrigo, a gym and training partner, an admirer of Easter movies, Roman films, the stories of Hercules, those vast sagas of muscular and invincible heroes, a Rodrigo who seeks that sensation of power and beauty that allows you to get out of your social situation and rise above your destiny.
- In 84 inspired pages, Cristian Cristino executes the adventure with full command of emotion and language, turning THE MUSCLE FAILURE into a tale that captures. He tells us about the dreams of a country and its defeat behind the supposedly invincible effort of bodybuilding. It moves. By just one hit. In the pull with which it is read.
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