Guadalupe NettelProbably the best-known of all Mexican writers in a country with many excellent writers, he lived in Barcelona for three and a half years. He was young and fell in love with an apartment on Carolines Street in Gràcia, but in the end he couldn’t rent it. This frustrated desire led him to consider what kind of life he might have had if he had lived there, and from there emerged a story that was the first story he wrote in his latest collection of stories. “I was young and free then, and every time I return to the city I feel nostalgic about that time.” The resulting story, ‘Life Elsewhere’, not only brings a new perspective to the old twin theme that Nettel has always been interested in, but also Barcelona theater worlduse stage director Alex Rigola as an extra in the story. The publisher promises to send you a copy.
The story is also the zero kilometer of the volume. eight stories ‘born from the idea that brought them together and gave them their title’Babbling (Anagram) Wandering albatrosses, unlike their regular and boring counterparts, are examples of seabirds that get lost in foreign lands without knowing why.
Confinement as control
In a certain way, one goes over the book recent incarceration experienceAs a turning point, even though only two of the stories touch directly on the topic. “These stories are about the anger and uncertainty of that time, but they are also about the consequences, the loss of compass that this means for everyone. We no longer know how the world is going, and in that sense we have all become wanderers because we no longer believe in the things that previously gave us security and guidance.” In one of the two stories, the author ventures into a dystopia that shows how the population could be more easily controlled if they were locked in their homes. “This is a metaphor, of course, but It exemplifies our fears as we do not know whether the images presented to us or the news broadcast are true or false, and this fuels a great distrust of our governments.”
The author’s usual universe is easily recognizable; is always marked by a sense of unreality that hints at its characters’ insecurities and fears and places the plots a step beyond fantasy stories. A quote from Anaïs Nin in ‘The Ramblings’ already hints at this imprecise and highly subjective atmospheric tone: “We do not see things as they are. But we see them as we are.” To this we must add a certain worldly perspective. indigenous peoples of mexico An idea that the author has adopted many times and which can be identified here in the idea that animals are a mirror of what we are as a human species. “These people have never distinguished between humans and animals, between nature and civilization, and that’s how I feel. We are animals, but we are in captivity. because historically people spent thousands of years as wanderers before their first settlements began, and that is in the DNA of humanity.”
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