A writer who touches the heart, there is not much more to say on Serrano.
The title of the book drew me, and will also attract you if you can get past the lines and do not stop the words. Our Lady of Loneliness brought me back to old stories Mexicans, made me recall with nostalgia and melancholy moments when candles mingled to the music, the music you play and do not listen, but you are born into it. So I decided to read this book because a book is named after the patron saint of Oaxaca can not be read.
The story is about a writer disappeared, and the main character who tries to understand, at the request of her husband, where she is, what happened to her, if she's dead or whatever. Therefore a different story, a kind of yellow, thinking about other novels Serrano, leaving perhaps surprised. But is not the classic yellow (which, as a genre, I'm not very enthusiastic), it is much more a story of passion embroidery, life, feelings, colors, sorrows, frustrations, worries, loneliness and deep. All focused on women, or rather, about a woman: Carmen.
The story of a lonely, but also a story of deep love and can not ever break. A woman deemed "crazy" outside the box, without end or purpose, rational and irrational, a victim of its own folly, intelligent, beautiful and unique, just as some women manage to be. A woman whose life is not enough and that place several times for different paths, but always comes back there, always at that critical point in his wound that can not and should not be sewn together: Love, the true, pure for a man who is her but that will never be his.
The pain then, but also the eternal love, the one that can bind two people for eternity. At which point you forget everything, even their children's lives, but surely his own.
A novel of remarkable sensitivity, perhaps less successful than others, but also touching.
is always accompanied by a fantastic inner journey, the discovery of Chile, India and Mexico, and his colorful city that once seen, can not be forgotten: Oaxaca (and Mexico, beautiful, sublime, intelligent, men).
"everyone believes novels that the authors recreate the memories, the events. But I find that they anticipate "
" the absence of the rose is a rose "
" madness has no place in the world "
" laziness is not a peculiarities, but a symptom "
" are the new world! "
" ... a passion to act as an engine ... "
" India is a place where lost "
" Mexico, the great scar "
"Love knows no reward outside the experience of love, and marks only the humility"
"women make their nonsense does not like us, for negligence and lightly, but when they are very unhappy "
" Oaxaca: Riviera, Trembling, Unfathomable "
" Loneliness is like a light without the sun. When it wears out, is the purity "
"the problem is that the Mexicans never cease to be married"
Buy the book here
Our Lady of Solitude
Marcela Serrano
Feltrinelli, 2003
€ 7.50
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