I have always liked fables. We all begin to know them in childhood and rediscover them in adulthood. That possible double reading turns out to be just lovely.
From The Little Prince but also Rebelion on the farm going through bestsellers like Life of Pi. The stories of simple appearance in their own fantasy of fables, end up being fascinating allegories that come to deepen in diversity of aspects of our world.
In the simple title: The tigress and the acrobat, the impossible reality of the fable is already guessed, which nevertheless is a great literary tool for the reader, in some mysterious way, to be able to empathize with the characters through their child's eyes .
As adult children we can see beyond what is narrated. Assuming the fable as a wink from the author, we consider the great vital losses as the source of sadness from which to drink to embark on lonely paths.
The fable frees us from prejudices, from the ideas forged until our adulthood and we begin to live what we read starting from scratch. We internalize the tigress and discover parts of ourselves on that path we have undertaken.
Fables often share a common characteristic. And they are not very extensive works. There is so much synthesis of wonderful ideas announced at the launch of The Tigress and the Acrobat that the filler would surely have been squeaky.
So, this great little book comes highly recommended for everyone. Since we are always taking new paths, it never hurts to stop for a while to read to rediscover ourselves contemplating the path that we have already traveled.
You can now buy La tigresa y el acrobata, Susanna Tamaro's latest novel, here: