At Lóleo Eventos, literature made in Chile we can find great international bestsellers such as Isabel Allende as well as other well-established props of that other more avant-garde literature, with more angles. More sophisticated literature and at the same time with greater claim from the point of view of the transcendence of the work.
An example of the latter is one Lina meruane that projects in each of her works that distinctive of the writer determined to reveal, transform, capture the vital theatricality of everything that surrounds us. Because our life is to go through the subjective stage of our impressions. And that, without enriching ourselves with the conceptual nuances of good literature, is reduced to minimum minimorum of existence.
The parallel performance between fiction and non-fiction, with occasional forays into his plays, the Lina Meruane bibliography it is already sprinkled with great novels and interesting essays. But as is usual in this space, we will focus on fiction.
Top 3 recommended books by Luna Meruane
Blood in the eye
There is something about the hyperbolic that serves perfectly to dispel the most obvious comparisons with any human attitude. It will perhaps be a subjective aspect that draws our attention from the exaggerations to end up approaching our particularities.
The point is that the sad story of an eye hemorrhage like this stands as that metaphor raised to the umpteenth power of our manias; of the drops that fill glasses where we end up drowning; from the feeling that small defects are insurmountable barriers. It is a matter of realizing, one bad day, that the hemorrhage is there, substantially altering even the way we look at ourselves ...
_ But then, and if all love that is not absolutely unconditional, "I love you above all things," is not true love, this book is not a love novel. love, as an ineffable and unintelligible movement, cannot be the foundation for a novel that wants to be intelligent.
_ Are both love and good novels incomparable? _ Indeed, my love: in life the inexplicable always occupies an outstanding place although difficult to ponder, but in novels every motive, cause or motor of action and interrelation between characters must be intelligible, because only from the arguable is it possible to can build and develop a narrative plot. That not so much love but the unexpected is what this novel is about. About the disease and its metaphors, what would Susan Sontag say?
_ But love also causes its own injuries: abandonment, damage, jealousy, greed, hatred, indifference._ Hence, perhaps, this bloody title. Notice that the love that is narrated here is blind.
Rotten fruit
Self-denial can be like living death for those who give themselves to others in need of continued help. The worst thing is that, in the face of those souls bent on relentless care, those affected may only be wanting to disappear, to extricate themselves from a world that is nothing more than bitterness and cruelty.
The older sister works in a fruit company, the youngest suffers from a serious illness that she has decided not to take care of. But the oldest is not resigned and fights to comply with the medical prescriptions. Faced with the rebellion of the youngest, determined to allow herself to die, the older cannot help but wonder why deny her that end that even she has wished for herself.
But both are trapped in a mutually dependent relationship mediated by the imperative of efficient production of both the perfect fruit and the healthy body. Meanwhile, the disease spreads like rot around the factory and hospitals.
Nervous system
Life exposes us to the most intense contradictions of our reason. No living being has the reach of our intelligence capable of analyzing, projecting, communicating…, always leaning towards the idea of ​​the peremptory, of the futility of all transcendental efforts.
Immortality does not exist, in the same way as infinity, because both are made up concepts, worthless beyond our collective consciousness. There is only an end, irreducible causality, death despite everything. This is the story of a family tied up by an obsessive plot: the precariousness of the body, its incessant evils, the imminence of loss.
In this particular clinical biography of an entire clan, each member eludes the onslaught of life with anxiety, with affection, with resentment and violence, with guilt, with imagination, with sparks of black humor. And with misunderstandings that make the circuits of the nervous family system jump. The past and the present orbit through these pages narrated from the perspective of a protagonist who, living abroad, maintains an equivocal contact with her family while trying to write an astronomical thesis that it moves through stars and galaxies and penetrates deeper and deeper black holes.
The author's insightful, meticulous and electric prose cleverly weaves #cosmic and corporeal # physical universes threatened by extinction; This fabric constitutes the axis of this narrative system with which Lina Meruane returns to the novel #after the award-winning Blood in the Eye # and consolidates a forceful literary career that has already been in existence for two decades.
Other recommended books by Lina Meruane
Avidity
In human beings, greed has an added bonus of obsession, repetition, and eternal return. Because animal greed finds in human reason the most deranged of its complements, the gluttony between the intellectual and the emotional with remains of the ego that covets everything with the desire of a deity punished with death like all consciousness and destiny.
Let's stop at the "greed", ours and that of others. Everyone's. Desire, anxiety, ambition, greed. Lina Meruane exposes us to the material and metaphorical senses of this word through a multitude of insatiable mothers and daughters, incisive sisters, sharp friends and lovers as well as wild men and animals whose hunger feeds love and hate, misery and punishment, resentment, forgiveness.
An obsessive universe through which objects come to life, bodies that lose it, that mutilate and break apart. Reading these poignant stories by Lina Meruane triggers, as in each of her books, an unforgettable reading avidity.
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