I got up close Ines Martin Rodrigo A little over a year ago, when the Abril attachment he directed began to take shape in the minds of some of us. Alex Salmon and he has a very distinguished job as a posh interviewer, quirky editor and columnist, just as he does here. El Periódico de España from the Prensa Ibérica group, who is driving Gemma Robles.
Gemma and her director Albert Sáez Catalonia Newspaper, Celebrating its first anniversary in Madrid a few weeks ago, they gave wings to this add-on. And there was Inés with his friends. jacobo de arce, Leticia White And Elena Heviafry with javier moll and together Aranxa SarasolaPresident and Vice President Iberian pressAt the Hotel de las Letras (where else?), I really met Inés Martín Rodrigo while toasting the health of a bet that seemed distant at the time.
so he already won Nadal Novel Awardwith Request formats. He was not yet forty then, which he now reveals in the biography section of his new book (Madrid, 1983), His own homosexuality. A lesbian claim based on cultural references (Target, Reference collection).
For photographs and other data that can be deduced from his literary reputation, he has also won for his excellent work in the pages of Culture. A B C, Where she came from, she seemed like a determined woman with an extraordinary culture (journalism, literature).
Far from showing a shy young woman, their conversation conveyed a solid sense of maturity. Determined, educated, daring and sincere, she quickly defeated the veteran who was ahead of her and later became not only a companion, but a teacher.
Simple and accessible, she knows how to mix tasks for which she is highly skilled, interviewing, writing, refining jobs left unfinished by collaborators in print, and It is a cornerstone inside and outside the field in which we operate.
Undoubtedly, it contained a book, almost a poem, that revealed his most intimate personality, rather than a journalist. That book I just read, the message in a clean bottle, her expression as a woman who has reached the age of forty and can now tell the wind and life that she is a lesbian.
To who own homosexuality She throws bottles into the sea of other women who have sexual relations with herself and have not yet broken the ties imposed by society, In Spain and everywhere else, with the mischievous habit of cutting people off their personal freedoms. Men and women, shackled by the bad habit of prohibition, never happy with the lucky lesson life has taught them, homosexuals of one sex or another.
The book is not a surprise to him, of course, since he will be gone. write it down one way or another, and he’s been saying it for years, ever since he’s confirmed that there is no greater attraction in his situation than that created by people of his own gender.
The way he describes his discoveries, and the fear of telling even his closest ones, is a lesson in each of its 134 pages, which turns into a magnificent combination of passion and joy.
Here is the girl he met a year ago at the Hotel de las Letras, who left his mark on literature. human example of the courage needed to reveal the obviouswhat was pounding in her heart since she used that reason: when she said, “I’m a lesbian,” to herself.
The pride he takes over with the words “I am a lesbian” continues throughout the book without any doubt. It is not just a matter of personal belief, of nature’s decision, but also of As a result of a cultural passion to explain where their love comes from and where other people’s love comes from, womenIn this case, that since he decided to put aside the doubts and evil that are still contagious in contemporary society, they have followed the same path to the pleasure and joy he felt in the past.
In these 134 pages, with the intensity of his passion and devotion, this account of what happened in the world of literature, in the world of cinema, which is another of his passions, in the world of common life with other cases, is encouraging. There is no fainting in the text because there are always examples in the text and context of how nature takes on its messages.
The writing proceeds with humor and valor, like a constant explanation, but also with tremendous sensitivity. His love of words (the definitions he uses are always valid, leading us to understand the history of lesbianism versus fraud) dominate the underlined pages that prompt the reader to navigate a world that suddenly seems like so much more than a book can ever make up.
This own homosexuality Therefore, it creates a small encyclopedia of love and pedagogy. After this reading, no one can defend ignorance to understand this passion that he tells from the most decisive experience that accompanies him after the most difficult experience. Coming soon.Christmas with the woman he loves.
A hug for book lovers.but it is also, above all, the justification of a passion that no one would object to. In the sum total of melancholy presented by this book by Inés Martín Rodrigo, there is also an accusation that takes on an unusual and sad meaning today: conquest, the triumph of homosexuality as a sign of contemporary freedom, is once again at stake today. because society is preparing to allow such natural, so familiar, so precious freedoms to be jeopardized by contemporary cynics.
Maybe Inés Martín Rodrigo did not write the book to be read now as a denunciation of this dark moment, but the truth is, here it is, written to spell out the word freedom linked to sex, passion and joy, and it is also a dam that allows the fresh water of great literature to pass through. Against the approaching dark time, this book is a haven of joy where I toast as we toast April this same June when this declaration of my own homosexuality takes place.