Writing is something like a curse from the gods. Writers condemned to narrate like Cassandra, revealing what no one wants to hear, or like Dante suffering even more than his aforementioned Ulysses in the depths of hell.
A tragic start to tackle the work of a Christina Rossi that makes literature that condemnation ultimately liberating (let's not forget that the divine comedy ends well). Because in his works he discovers that effort to distill essences that can flow from sex or detach from struggles that loom over the horizons of Ithaca.
Idealizing only works if the matter ends up becoming tangible, when the touch of the skin or the pages of the book are capable of disturbing the skin from hair to shivering. From there you can sense where the notes that make up Cristina's narrative symphony go in the essayistic or poetic as clear contrasts, but also in the novel as an old emblem of prose.
As on so many other occasions, we focus on the novelistic side of an author. Leaving for passionate poetics or brainy essay readers any other opinions that point to the best books by this author.
Top 3 recommended novels by Cristina Peri Rossi
Love is a hard drug
By getting to know one of the author's most suggestive threads, this novel brings us closer to that now so exploited idea of ​​the urgency of living like a carpe diem that can lead us to become Dorian Gray, in Kurt Cobain or simply in the shadows of what we were and one day of comfortable adult tranquility we would like to be again ...
Contemplation, desire and the possession of beauty are episodes of the soul that do not necessarily end in the destruction of lovers, but the proximity between death and the intensity of passion, the transience of pleasure and the pain of an impossible retention, tell us. They induce us to fear and avoid the extinction that the love struggle announces. Contemplating the world through the lens of his camera does not prevent Javier from passionately enjoying all excesses.
But sex, alcohol and drugs push him to the brink of collapse and death. He then undertakes a repentant rehabilitation. He marries a colleague from the advertising agency where he worked and they retire far from the city. But the chance appearance of the beautiful Nora awakens once again in Javier the fascination and desire and an even deeper obsession: to capture beauty, possess it and throw himself into the abyss opened again under her feet.
At fifty years old, Javier once again challenges the limits and returns to the passionate whirlwind of sex and all the excitement that keeps alive a force that, slowly and relentlessly, seems to be exhausted without remedy. Through perfectly controlled writing, of extraordinary ease, fluidity and mastery, Cristina Peri Rossi makes the reader participate, in her experience of the text, in the seduction and dilemmas that desire confronts us with; of the physical or literary beauty that can come to dominate us: to read this novel is to live, to its ultimate consequences, the obsessive adventure of passion.
The insubmissive
Posts to read a fictionalized biography, few as authentic as this one by Cristina Peri Rossi. With the years of narrative solvency that the years of office give and the accurate notion that only the deepest truth makes sense black on white. Only in this way can you enjoy a story loaded with that verisimilitude that reaches the soul. On the other hand, an exercise by the author on how to dare to look in the mirror without having almost any answer for who we were, but with the firm conviction of always looking for them.
Autobiographical novel by Cristina Peri Rossi that goes through her childhood and youth years with perplexity and surprise at a world that she has had to live and does not understand. Through the pages of the book, a life in permanent conflict between desire and reality is perceived, seeking to fulfill its deepest desires despite the prohibitions and social customs that being a woman entails.
I adore you and other stories
The short distances provided by the stories allow us to contemplate the work as seen from behind the scenes. Stripped of descriptive artifice or pruned ramifications to compose other stories, the stories are always that essence of the writer, of his motives for narrating, of his searches, his fears and his passions more exposed than ever.
The five stories that make up I adore you and other stories they represent a masterful demonstration of the narrative talent of Cristina Peri Rossi. Patricia's days are too similar to each other: work, motherhood, loneliness. However, this morning a novel easy opener has complicated their routine, and sparked a rebellion against their "Intimate disasters".
It doesn't matter if the flags are red or black, "Patriotism" Its aim (and principle) is to defeat the adversary. How does a farsighted man cope with "Doomsday"? A therapist and his patient maintain a particular "Session" of psychoanalysis worthy of the best Cortázar. Nothing is more exciting for certain mature men than a young lover who gratefully responds to his teachings: "I adore you".
