“Es justo en lo privado, en lo más íntimo de cada uno de nosotros, donde hay que combatir la dejadez, la pasividad y la indolencia”.
—Sara Mesa
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“Es justo en lo privado, en lo más íntimo de cada uno de nosotros, donde hay que combatir la dejadez, la pasividad y la indolencia”.
—Sara Mesa
Un amor, 2023, Isabel Coixet
Echar de menos un instante es echar de menos a aquel que éramos entonces
Cicatriz. Libro: Sara Mesa
Pareja inadmisible, sin sentido, deteniéndose un poco más allá fuera, sobre la acera estrecha y sucia, mirándose sin hablar, sin tocarse, y luego el giro, cada uno hacia una dirección, el viejo hacia la derecha, cabizbajo, asimétrico, su caminar de loco, hacia el pasado; la niña hacia la izquierda, cabizbaja, asimétrica, su caminar de loca, hacia el futuro.
Cara de pan. Sara Mesa.
I was a little puzzled by Four by Four by Sara Mesa, translated by Katie Whittlemore. I wanted so much to like it—I've anticipated it for so long!—but ultimately, was unconvinced.
The first part was the most engaging. It featured two students, the bullied Ignacio and the rebellious Celia, who are both pulled into the intensely toxic and elitist world of power through sex, desire, and subjugation that defines the school. This section was by far the most successful in portraying the corruption and cyclical horrors of sexual manipulation and domination, and the cruelties of a system of classism, ableism, and patriarchal poison being inflicted on young girls and boys.
The 2nd part features a substitute teacher who's an imposter, occupying a job that isn't actually his, and who slowly discovers the hidden dark secrets behind the school's operations. And the 3rd is a strange Borgesian story written by a former professor of the school. . I think ultimately, I found the writing a little overly opaque. Ignacio's storyline begins where Celia's ends, but they are given to us as rotating narrations in the first part. This was more confusing than it was at all useful to the story. Key details of the imposter's story were left vague unnecessarily, and he seemed to both under and overreact overall. There was a healthy dollop of fatphobia spread through the conclusion of the 2nd part that I found difficult to swallow.
There is something to the dizzying, blurry nature of it all that is inherently Spanish gothic, and I did enjoy that very much. Some of the discoveries that the reader has to puzzle out were worth the extra effort for the shock you feel when you figure them out. But I was left without feeling like a satisfying conclusion had really been reached, and like a lot of the craft choices had obscured more than they had purpose.
Content warnings for rape, confinement, adult/minor relationship, fatphobia, disordered eating, classism, suicide, animal cruelty, use of the g-slur.
“Una riflessione fugace le attraversa la mente, talmente rapida che non le dà il tempo di afferrarla e comprenderla. Qualcosa sugli scambi primordiali. Il baratto come rapporto sociale basilare. Perché no, si dice. C’è qualcosa di bello. Qualcosa di essenziale e umano”
Sara Mesa - Un amore
Los escritores estamos siempre en nuestros textos
Importan los buenos libros, hay que olvidarse de las etiquetas
La escritora española Sara Mesa ha publicado una nueva novela Cara de pan (Anagrama) “una historia elusiva, obsesiva, inquietante y hasta incómoda”,
El Cultural la entrevistó y sus puntos de vista sobre la literatura, la autoficción así como el acoso y la “psiquiatrización de la vida” son inmejorables. Aquí algunas preguntas:
P.- La novela narra el imposible encuentro de dos perdedores, de dos miradas al mundo distintas. ¿De qué manera esa diferencia marca el relato?
R.- Son distintas por la edad, digamos que el rodillo de la vida ha pasado ya por el Viejo y pocas esperanzas hay para él en el sentido de la aceptación social (ha sido etiquetado, diagnosticado y juzgado), mientras que Casi, como él le dice, tiene toda la vida por delante… Lo que aún no sabemos es si el esquema volverá a repetirse con ella o si, por el contrario, terminará adaptándose a los imperativos de la normalidad. Aunque también está la posibilidad de una tercera vía: que consiga sobrevivir preservando su individualidad. Ese es el reto.
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