More heir to Elena Poniatoska that of Juan Rulfo, the also Mexican Valeria Luiselli makes of his chronic literature and his dizzying critical thinking essay.
Fictional from the projection of the most conscious realism with that irreverence of a young writer, Valeria manifests herself as a powerful speaker of a generation focused on the future from the foundations of everything new that the world may have left, raising her voice to reveal the manifest trompe l'oeil of a constant involution disguised as a brilliant advance. Critical literature in the broadest sense of the word.
In this sense, his ideology borders on his book «The missing child»The problem of borders as fictional walls (increasingly tangible in the case that the author is more closely related to between Mexico and the United States). Walls capable of stigmatizing those on one side behind the only disguise of aporophobia. In the same way that they idealize those of the other, those who inhabit a comfortable place in the world just for the fact of being, or perhaps simply of not being if we are ill-thought.
The question is to undertake the journey towards the humanistic of those edges of our days, to bleed on one's own skin and finally empathize with others, beyond the aseptic television news.
But in addition Valeria Luiselli also engulfs us in other of her books in that fragmented literature that moves comfortably between the estrangement of the fantastic and the real as if everything occupied the same structured place from the subjectivity of the protagonists.
Life, love, family, learning or death are always impressions; discovering the transcendent brilliance of the tragicomic poles of our existence is a narrative goal for a captivating Valeria in her way of telling stories.
Top 3 recommended novels by Valeria Luiselli
Sound desert
The road novels have that special storytelling point during the trip, when their characters only have to wait seated while the world moves. The physical paradox becomes an inevitable stop in the lives of the protagonists.
Stripped of daily chores, we are able, from time to time, to open ourselves and between changing scenarios, end up opening ourselves to ourselves or to others, with a sometimes disconcerting, even terrifying truth. A married couple in crisis travels by car with her two young children from New York to Arizona. They are both documentary filmmakers and each one concentrates on his own project: he is on the trail of the last Apache band; she seeks to document the diaspora of children who arrive at the country's border in search of asylum.
As the family car traverses the vast North American territory, the two children listen to the conversations and stories of their parents and in their own way confuse news of the migratory crisis with the history of the genocide of the original peoples of North America. In children's imaginations, stories of violence and political resistance collide, intertwining in an adventure that is the story of a family, a country, and a continent.
The weightless
There is a lot of talk about creators, something like weightless beings that move at a different pace than others, who observe things different from others from privileged sources that even place them on another plane.
It may simply be a form of idealization or confusion of the mediocrity of people when we discover the genius who presents us with the world transformed from our own mutated impressions into waves of unimaginable intensity.This novel rescues two protagonists lost in their weightlessness between the hectic common life under the ground, between subway cars that raise frenzied currents and characters that move blurred, entering and leaving at the unattainable speed of everyday life, oblivious to life.
How many lives and how many deaths are possible in the existence of the same person? The Weightless is a novel about ghostly existences; an evocation, at once melancholic and full of humor, about the impossibility of a love affair and the irrevocable nature of loss. Two voices make up this novel. The narrator, a woman from contemporary Mexico, recounts her youthful years as an editor in New York, in which the ghost of the poet Gilberto Owen haunted her on the subway. Both narrators search for each other in the unfathomable space of the subways, where they traveled in their respective pasts.
The story of my teeth
The vital projects are drawn on a plane, so that they acquire meaning and order. The problem is that nobody is an architect of their own life. Because life is governed by much more erratic and improvised movements, destroying our own justifications, our guilt and our behaviors. Unfortunately the ink is always there, tracing what we were supposed to want to build or what others understand that we wanted to build one day.
Highway was not always this eminent showman. Before becoming an auctioneer, he worked as a watchman at a juice factory for many years, until a coworker panic attack irretrievably changed his life. On the way to his destination, Carretera will have to face the wrath of a son he has abandoned, hold an auction to help a priest save his church, and perform as a great final performance «The story of my personal Gustavos », An allegorical auction.
