The 3 best books by Carmen Boullosa

Writer of the extraordinary, Carmen boullosa is in charge of recovering for the cause of historical just price all sorts of instants suspended in the limbo of inconsequential until Boullosa shows us the nuance, the differential fact that makes things take another dimension, rewrites history, reinterprets moral and social canons.

It's not by chance. It is rather the virtuous perception of a great storyteller, of a poet who has already defeated the purest narrative and the depth of things than by the form.But everything is resources and also aesthetics, appearance and knowledge of the lyric serves Carmen for that embellished ending that lightens the prosaic.

And this is how a writer escapes the classifiable to find authenticity despite the rage of critics bent on labeling them as warehouse workers. Historical fiction with metaliterary evocations and transitions of realism and fantasy (if his bibliography had to be presented as a menu). So it only remains to be encouraged to taste literature with capital letters knowing that the bewilderment, surprise and magic of the made in Boullosa estrangement will end up bringing you new visions of the world.

Top 3 recommended novels by Carmen Boullosa

The book of Eva

Since JJ Benitez rediscovered that world of Jesus Christ that was exclusively vetoed from the Bible, everything that comes close to new readings, literary interpretations or invitations to the sacred with a transgressive vision has won me over. Simplicity of an agnostic on the threshold of any belief ...

What if everything we have been told about Paradise was the other way around? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and 91 passages, Eva decides to tell her version: it was neither created from Adam's rib, nor is it accurate that it was expelled by the apple and the serpent, nor the story of Abel and Cain is the one that tells, neither the Flood, nor the Tower of Babel ...

With brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa gives the book of Genesis a twist to disassemble the male figure and rebuild the world, the origin of gastronomy, the domestication of animals, the cultivation of the land and pleasure, through of the feminine gaze. From this exploration, sometimes funny and other painful, The book of Eva reviews the stories they have told us and that have helped to promote (and cement) the absurd idea that women are companions, complement and even accessories to men, which opens the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa denies them and transgresses them in this foundational and brazen feminist novel.

The book of Eva

Lepanto's other hand

An adventure only at the height of feathers capable of building the perfect balance between action and reflection. A fiction also with its feminist vindictive tone, surely projecting the idea of ​​a very necessary historical protagonism of the feminine.

After separating from her father, expelled like many gypsies by Felipe II, the girl María is taken to serve in a convent from which she flees to be welcomed by some Moorish friends of her father, who educate her and teach her the art of the sword. When Maria finishes her training, they entrust her with a mission in Cyprus: to bring to Famagusta the first of the leaden books, apocryphal Gospels that she will pass as ancient and that will legitimize the Moors as the first Christians of Iberia.

Maria has to face many adventures; he traveled through Christian and Moorish Granada, was held captive in Algiers and traveled to Naples, when the army of the Holy League met in the city. In love with the Spanish captain Don Jerónimo de Aguilar, their love will be a great disagreement. At the time when he must embark, Maria, disguised as a man, goes up to the Royal after him. When her lover dies in combat, María the bailaora is taken to the Marquesa, where she befriends a sick young soldier and poet: Miguel de Cervantes.

Lepanto's other hand

Texas

The loss of half of the Mexican territory was recent. After the independence of Texas, its annexation to the United States and the US intervention in Mexico that moved the border south, Mexicans in the region found that they already lived in another country and faced the greed of the North Americans.

Thus, one day in 1859, in the border town of Bruneville, Texas, Sheriff Shears insults Nepomuceno: "Shut up, you greasy skinny." The victim is a rich Mexican landowner, and the aggressor a bad American carpenter who wears the insignia because no one else wants it.

The news of the insult runs quickly through Bruneville, goes up to the Nueces River, enters the Apachería, also walks south, crosses the Rio Grande, passes through the neighboring city (Matasánchez) and continues. Both draw their weapons and Shears is wounded by a shot from Nepomuceno, who flees, crosses the river and encamps in Mexican territory. Barely contained hatred is unleashed. The rangers prepare revenge. An army of motley volunteers forms around Nepomuceno and invades Texas.

The loss of half of the Mexican territory was recent. After the independence of Texas, its annexation to the United States and the US intervention in Mexico that moved the border south, Mexicans in the region found that they already lived in another country and faced the greed of the North Americans.

Thus, one day in 1859, in the border town of Bruneville, Texas, Sheriff Shears insults Nepomuceno: "Shut up, you greasy skinny." The victim is a rich Mexican landowner, and the aggressor a bad American carpenter who wears the insignia because no one else wants it.

The news of the insult runs quickly through Bruneville, goes up to the Nueces River, enters the Apachería, also walks south, crosses the Rio Grande, passes through the neighboring city (Matasánchez) and continues. Both draw their weapons and Shears is wounded by a shot from Nepomuceno, who flees, crosses the river and encamps in Mexican territory. Barely contained hatred is unleashed. The rangers prepare revenge. An army of motley volunteers forms around Nepomuceno and invades Texas.

Texas it is a story of men armed by necessity or pleasure and of untamed women, a chronicle of cowboys and Apaches, of African Americans and immigrants of different origins, of Comanches and captives, of slave owners and insurgents. From that portion of Mexico that became the United States and portraying dozens of characters, this novel tells the great robbery that for many continues to be an open wound.

Texas
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