The 3 best books by Luisa Valenzuela

The most elegant formal sophistication is not an obstacle to a parallel construction of ingenious plots. As much as many other authors try to contradict this balanced idea of ​​literature. That is why the case of Argentina louis valenzuela, recognized throughout the world, invites us to continue in the faith that writing does not have to be erudition or mere entertainment as the unique and antagonistic values ​​of great literature or commercial literature.

In this taste for synthesis, Valenzuela draws on an avant-garde taste in form and substance, fleeing forward from possible labels and enabling this confluence in his bibliography of a powerful reading ambivalence. Novels and stories that offer new harmonies with which to match realities that always run in parallel with our world. Characters exposed to becoming as inexplicable as they are ultimately close to our evolution.

With Luisa Valenzuela reading is discovery and a patient feeling of openness to new focuses. In its fictional aspect, any of its plots always provide that fresh notion of someone who has arguments as if brought from muses of the prosaic. In the essayistic aspect of it I don't have it so situated, but I'm sure it will be some great discovery later.

Top 3 recommended novels by Luisa Valenzuela

The morning

Every writer called to exploration and the avant-garde faces at some point the task of submitting to the genre of science fiction. Surely more towards a sociological aspect if you will, with its dystopias and others, but science fiction at the end of the day because the future is always the fertile space where to project literature of the future, of parallel worlds, of whatever is needed to raise the mental construct on duty.

The action takes place in an indefinite and imperfect future, where home confinement, covering the face with veils or communicating through screens are part of the current normality. Eighteen writers aboard the ship El Mañana are kidnapped by a commando group, deprived of their experiences and their words: erased in an instant from the literary universe.

Why is it so important to silence them? Is there a language exclusive to them? What are those in power afraid of? Law enforcement officers have destroyed all of Elisa Algarañaz's work, torn it from her library and confined her to a room, alone with her laptop, which they review weekly and then erase all its contents. In this context, she will try to answer your questions and together with Esteban Clemente and Omar Katvani ?? a hacker and a translator ??, she will embark on a story of love, delirium, conspiracies and dangers whose port can be an impossible answer.

A novel that crosses the rivers of language towards the origin of creation. Which investigates identity and the power that people can exercise through words. That combines the redemption of humor with the acuity of reflection. And that anticipates the violent reaction to the unstoppable female empowerment of recent years. A culminating work in the career of Luisa Valenzuela.

El Mañana, by Luisa Valenzuela

God's joke

There are stories and tales that are actually novelistic proposals, invitations to the reader to continue weaving deconstructed, fragmented or simply purposely unfinished plots. The point is to close each chapter with that tempting path that is not chosen. And the matter is metalinguistic in terms of the scope of those motives of the writer, that scheme of the potential narrative that never comes to be in favor of another that does finally occur. Luisa Valenzuela plays with all these assumptions in one of her most interesting cocktails.

God's Joke presents us with the challenge of intuiting where its characters are going, through what registers the stories become, what are the debates between the figure of the narrator, the author and its protagonists. As if it were a game of dice in which chance at times influences and at times gives way to the plot, Luisa Valenzuela flies over the intervals of the imagination (giving a detour to preconceived expectations) to invite her adventurous dance with language: where language is feasible to do striptease with the letters, without forgetting the value of meaning and meaninglessness. Pure documented invention, because if something characterizes our author, it is her ability to sift the tones of fire and spread them in that witty amalgam, half fiction, half “reality” of an unmatched narrative.

God's joke

the journey

Every adventure has its journey. Because venturing out is not going through already marked trails, but rather marking that own journey that can be plagued with obstacles, inconveniences and unforeseen events, but which in the end implies the exercise of maximum freedom. The sexual evolution of each one is also that journey to discover, if indeed one is willing to be free in this matter ...

The journey produces the effect of jumping down a slide in the dark: it is impossible not to feel the emotion of the route and the emotion of not knowing where it will go and where it will end. In this novel «There is also an explicit and casual eroticism, which combines imagination with raw sex, the feminine of desire with masculine genitality, mixing ingredients that make the enjoyment of the senses a limit and unique experience where the boundaries between the outside and the inside, in the best way of sacred initiation. "

The crossing, by Luisa Valenzuela
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