Halfway between carmen mola y Elena Ferrante, the also unknown Bebi Fernandez o @MissBebi he exploits in his books a form of literature made of social commitment in a controlled manner. Because feminism understood as a substantive claim is the one that certainly fills more to anyone than other types of "feminisms" that stay only in the form to be able to pull easy labeling to everything that moves and is uncomfortable.
The beginnings of Bebi in literature were consummated from a popularity in social networks that in cases like hers uncovered the creativity in abundance of the author of the moment. And the limitation of characters particularly of twitter serves to uncover shortcomings of synthesis or to discover even poetic potentials.
Then came the novel, a duology already established as a great discovery of recent years, with its transgressive aspect from the disturbing certainty of its mere reflection from our most sordid reality. Human trafficking no longer has any of that lyricism from which Bebi became known. And yet, the disenchantment of it, the social nausea it provokes, also reaches as deep as the best composed verse of doom.
Top 3 recommended books by Bebi Fernández
Memories of a savage
The novelistic start of a Bebi that plunges into the depths of social morality. And so, more than ever, the black genre rescues miseries from the darkest waters of our world. A Lisbeth Salander to the Spanish with that disturbing certainty of the closest.
K is 19 years old and has a somewhat peculiar life. When her father is assassinated in a reckoning, she is forced to combine her studies with a very unconventional job: that of a receptionist and errand girl in a clandestine hostess. Under the threat of pimps and suffocation of debt, she will experience the horrors that the system of trafficking in women brings up close. The experience will lead her to develop a metamorphosis that will mark her passage from adolescence to adulthood.
The women he meets there and the violence intrinsic to the criminal world (which he will also feel in his own flesh) will make him start thinking about defending himself. To do this, he will go to Ram's boxing club, a boy whose life has also been marked by gender violence. Despite the armor that both wear, his curiosity will lead him to be interested and concerned about her until it makes her think that perhaps there are men who love women. But an unfortunate event will cause the neon lights to start flashing.
Queen
It is said that there is no two without three. And this end of biology points to possible surprises for many reasons. First of all because of its hook as a plot, secondly because of its function as a wake-up call for distracted consciences with the anecdotes of a possible salon feminism.
Spain, the year 2020. The life of Kassandra Fernández passes between books and attempts to overcome her past, but everything falters when her greatest enemy makes an appearance in the worst possible way, giving rise to a bloody cold war where strategy, criminal businesses and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred, and in which the protagonist will internally debate between revenge and justice, also waging an internal battle where she will have to find out who she really is.
While everything is happening, love and friendship seem to be more difficult to understand than ever. Opening the drawer where she kept the chess pieces will not be easy, but Kassandra Fernández is no longer just a brave young woman in need of knowing her destiny, but a wild woman willing to win the game, or perhaps not. Queen, the expected outcome of Memoirs of a Wild, is more than a thriller. It is a challenge to all of society.
Indomitable: Diary of a Girl on Fire
Good poetry has the virtue of inserting images as if they were slogans towards the definitive, transcendent idea. The verses in this book exude rebellion and feminism.
Two necessary attitudes or principles. Two positions from which one looks at the world with suspicion. To which, adding the youth that emanates from this book, a sense of irreverence and transgression is incorporated. If anyone is to shake the principles established as immutable values, that is a woman. Because the revolution is basically yours today.
Nothing better than a close example to achieve the necessary empathy that must occupy us all in this still unresolved social contingency. Bebi's blinding brilliance is sometimes uncomfortable as it brings raw realities out of the shadows. But it is precisely the discomfort of conscience that causes the old stagnant totems to fall in favor of essential improvements.
