Who has not heard that "I have to write a novel"? There are few who answer you like this when you ask them, how's that going? or what is your life? or, in the worst case, without even having asked them.
We all have to write a novel, the one of our lives. Only knowing how to write your biography is a matter of being funny, knowing how to sift through memories and give a common thread to everything, a reason to invite someone to whom, in principle, your life is not very interesting or not at all interesting.
Mary karr it is a bulwark of memory narrative, a kind of North American literary trend. A literature where telling your life is an excuse to talk about reality, the environment that you have lived in, a region, a region, a town.
Your life then ceases to be just your life to cover itself with circumstances, customs and idiosyncrasies. And that's when the magic arises, your life can become interesting if you confront it with what happens around you while you tell it.
Mary Karr knows how to narrate what happened to her with humor, when she plays, or with the tragic tone that comes from those bad moments ... And meanwhile the world turns, Texas, her region turns, the oil wells of her town whisper while life of Mary passes ...
There is some magic in that, of special narrative capacity. Your birthday can be a soporific story ..., but what do you say to me if that same day 25 years ago it rained to sing and you had to be isolated on a lonely road between your work and your home.
The moment could give much of itself. You inside your car, evoking the moment that you are no longer going to live, would there be a surprise in your house or would no one be waiting for you? The windshield tries uselessly to dislodge water, like yourself, determined to want to remember your childhood birthdays in the middle of a storm. Maybe you need it. The absences are what they are. She was not going to be waiting for you today with her smile when opening the door. And in your memories passed by water, in the gutter of a lost road, she can be in your memories ...
It is also bad luck that in 19XX it starts to rain on your birthday, after months of drought, cuts in the water supply and some horrifying crops that had raised the farmers in arms ...
I don't know, there would be much left to enrich the description, but Mary Karr does something like that in this book The Liars' Club. Do you want to know more about Mary Karr? At the moment you only know her name, and you can search for her on the Internet, and read her info on Wikipedia, but what else would you like to know about her life, her circumstances, what has led her to be what she is?
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