Novelas escogidas (1981-1998) [Selected Novels]
Genre: Contemporary
Original Publication date of recompilation: 2016
Language: English (No English Version Available)
Book description: Selected novels - with a prologue and a selection by the critic Geney Beltrán Félix - brings together and makes available to today's reader a handful of the best short novels that Garro produced between 1982 and 1998: Reunion of characters, My little sister Magdalena, Testimonies about Mariana, The House by the River, And Matarazo Didn't Call and Look for My Obituary. All of them are texts of short length, but of disturbing narrative power, where literary characters such as Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, historical events such as the Cold War, the Madracista movement, Francoism and autobiographical moments of the author herself are combined and the real It is confused with the imaginary.
Teatro Complete [Complete Plays]
Publication date: 2016
Language: Spanish (No English translation available)
Genre: Contemporary
Description: The agile and unconventional dialogues, the peculiar inner universe of her characters, the loneliness and melancholy that fill her literary universe, coupled with her sense of humor that is often macabre and cynical, make Elena Garro's work one of the most important in the world. 20th century in Mexico.
Thoughts:
So its a very hard to get through. It touches on very real and crude situations many women find themselves trapped in. You see all kinds of toxic men and twisted family relationships.
It is a book that I could not finish, it took me making a huge effort to pick it back up. The situations made me slow to read, not because the writing was difficult to follow, the writing is easy and to the point. We do not have huge allegories or similes ... Oh no it's a very straight to the point and trapped in the very real life of the woman you are following.
I was thinking about buying it so I could annotate the physical copy but it will really take a lot of effort to get through this book again.
It touches on important topics, but I do not enjoy seeing this reality, they face such harsh worlds and have no backup from their families, from their partners, seeing such solitude and hardships is something I do not normally enjoy. The writing is so well done that I felt the desperation and rage on the page seep into me.
I can say though this book should be read but you really need to be in the right headspace to handle it.
I'm going to try more of her writing but oh my, such tough topics she touches it might not be the best idea to read all her works back to back like I tried to do. Space them out with a few more light reads in between.
These books were used for the following challenges:
Around the World: Mexico
Spanish/Latin Authors
Female authors
Books with relevant social topics
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