#la sed

[sublecturas]

“La sed”, de Marina Yuszczuk

[proverworld]

"Kissing is like drinking salty water: you drink and increase your thirst", Chinese proverb.

"Besar es como beber agua salada: bebes y aumentas tu sed". Proverbio chino.

[alamemoria]

[el-jujeniodeletras]

Amado Nervo. La sed. El estanque de los lotos. [26]

[untresdefebrero]

No quiero hablar demasiado pero necesito vaciarme. La incontinencia verbal se vuelve en contra cuando la prudencia se impone. Me urge un encuentro con la ligereza. Camino hacia un lugar en el que todo tiene demasiado peso y no puedo huir de la gravedad . La reconozco en leves manifestaciones y sé que todavía no me he enfrentado a ella, pero la intuyo devastadora. Me da miedo y no me permito desandar lo andando.

Paula Bonet, La Sed

[sublecturas]

“La sed”, de Marina Yuszczuk

[kbookblurbs]

Thirst (La Sed) - Marina Yuszczuk

4.75/5 - Vampirism as a method of grieving and avoiding perpetuating pain inflicted upon you

Thirst really captured me for a couple reasons. The first is how Yuszczuk emphasizes that her vampires are truly "out of time". Our main vampire lead finds herself suddenly incapable of running the city as she was used to and beings to feel her age as the city progresses. It's an interesting way of looking at the human psyche as it decays over time, and this vampire emphasizes particularly the grief that comes of outliving everything you've ever known and your supposedly immortal companions. In every scenario, she alone remains after death. (There's also an interesting Fuck You Catholic Church scene, but I think that has more to do with the vampires feelings of indifference towards the idea of an all-seeing male god, particularly after escaping her first master, and less to do with the Church itself)

The second reason was the strain of desire that runs through this book. Both the vampire and our single mother admit to being unsatiable, always hungering for something more, something different, something and anything at all. The desire isn't always so literal as for blood, but also for connection, for understanding, for time - every entry of each woman's "diary" serves to show how lonely they both are. It's frankly quite sad, and the ending of the novel leaves a lot up to interpretation, but I found the novel lingering with me the more I read it.

[thatsbutterbaby]

Arturo Martini - La sed, 1934.   x