With the Sevillian writer Elisa victoria It happens that I feel more marked that possible abyss of the jump from one generation to the next. But the thing is not going to highlight the differences to vindicate generation X or Z or the suit that he plays. I say it more because of a healthy capacity for surprise that catches me out of place and misplaces me for the better. And that is the best that those who are taking over in this world can contribute, to trust that something may be better in the general chaos.
It is not the same to enjoy thrillers from Joel dicker, from the same 1985 vintage as the author in question, than to delve into literature as an avant-garde with the very healthy intention of telling something new. Or rather, to tell the same things that happen in this world in a cyclical manner, with the ingenious feeling that everything has mutated.
For that, to be able to contribute the notion that something new happens every day; To convince us of something beyond the trompe l'oeil of existence, Elisa resorts to exposing the inner life of her characters. Something like an improvised sample book that convinces us of the exclusivity of life, of the true difference of each individual as a fascinating space to visit and discover. Healing literature in the face of boredom. Colorful narratives that push us to change our perspective.
Top 3 recommended novels by Elisa Victoria
Old voice
Who does not remember Manolito Gafotas from Elvira Lindo? It is not that it is a matter of cyclical fashion for child protagonists in novels for all audiences. It is rather a matter of both Elvira and Elisa now, with their cacophonous proximity in names, finding that child who blends in with all of us with the most accurate humor, naivety and a vision of the world.princely»That collides again and again against the wall of the most stubborn reality to awaken that hilarity that also involves attitudes of slight disenchantment with adult readers rapt by nostalgia.
In the past they were the Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn u Oliver Twist. Here and now is a girl named Marina who will lead us through the adventure of life seen from a childhood that connects with the idea that we are all children of candles pushed by the vigorous blows of time. But children at the end of the day eager to sometimes take tailwinds to reposition ourselves at the helm on those already ghost ships.
He is nine years old. Her name is Marina, but at her school they call her Vozdevieja. This summer in Seville, the first after the '92 Expo, is so long and so dry that she doesn't know whether to cry or laugh. She does want everything to change or for everything to stay the same. Because she still plays with Chabel dolls, but she already looks at adult magazines.
Because her mother is ill and she already imagines herself in a convent surrounded by little orphans. Because everyone, including his father, insists on disappearing. Because her best friend is her grandmother, who cooks her, combs her hair, lets her nails cut like scorpions, tells her about her love for Felipe González, says quietly, shows her new heels, sews flower dresses for her.
Then he goes out and those dresses bother him as much as if they were made of sandpaper. And yet Marina is always hungry: for life, and for breaded steaks. A unique, tender, lyrical and hilarious voice. A first novel as unforgettable as the first time something important happens to you.
The gospel
Vocations could change the world if their proportion were greater than many other impulses of the human soul that surpass them by a landslide. Frustrations are those vocations capable of bringing out the best, even out of disenchantment and dislocation. Because in the end, strange as it may seem, a frustrated vocation is new food for another nascent vocation.
«Damn world, take me if you want, I'm already rotten anyway, but don't mess with Alberto, leave Alberto alone jumping around his house dressed as a cat, let me draw pictures, plant trees, dance, no Give him scares, don't give him a gang that gives him cruel challenges, don't let him run away, don't let him grow older like a corpse inside a big body with which it is impossible to communicate again, don't let his little bones get thrown into the ground. interior of a fool who sets up a business linked to the devil and spends his days signing papers and speaking despotically. Don't rot this child, disgusting world, I only ask that, scare me, make me sick, torture me, throw me in a ditch and never be found, hurt me and this child so that nothing turns him bad.
Lali has to do teaching internships, but forgets to apply. When she discovers that she has been assigned to a convent school it is too late. However, she will have to overcome fear and learn that those children also need the best of her, that her love also fades, that adults also fail to keep the promises made to her.
Porn & Pains
Every transgressive narrative intention, from the mere fact of youth as a driving force, fits perfectly into a literature of the brief that collects lost souls and intense thoughts, especially what it means to look towards maturity as a horizon. Porn & Pains is the title of Elisa Victoria's first book. It comes filled with white pages with short texts but also some yellow ones with illustrations by Elena López MacÃas.
A book that has both an autobiography and a tribute. There is no vindication in sight, there is no judgment, there is no lifeline, no glamorous intellectual defenses, just the stark gaze of a teenage girl contemplating the artifice of sex on the screen and being delightfully aware of it.
