A translator already makes literature from the moment he collects in a different language what another author intends to transmit in the language of the day. Maybe that's why someone like Menchu ​​Gutierrez she is forged as a narrator of her own stories from that constant feedback that is to make us reach great writers in history.
And although the issue of the change of the letters breaks more in the case of Menchu ​​in a poetic creation of his own, his work also includes suggestive novels loaded with that lyricism that borders on the existential with the same depth as the verses that point to transcendence thanks to their musicality and depth.
The protagonists of Menchu ​​are from their mere appearance in the narrative. And they can be people or just places, spaces, buildings. Everything comes to life when you have the gift to revitalize, the ability to turn the inert into another manifestation of the human in the simple friction of time or proximity to the skin.
Top 3 recommended novels by Menchu ​​Gutiérrez
Latent
Desire gives coherence to our passage through this world. Away as we are from the most relevant answers, the flame, the sexual drive disguised as sensuality or eroticism, leads us through a future that only returns to look for other answers when that old longing for the physical mediated by reason ends up remitting as low tide of life.
Can desire be embodied in a perfume, in a sound? Is desire a star that stands between the heart and the light, a moon capable of causing an eclipse of reality? Can desire cross the line that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead? How many languages ​​can the desire learn to become?
Power of the unknown, Latent is affirmation of all possible hearts. Menchu ​​Gutiérrez invites us to trace the deepest and most unexpected regions of desire, its power of metamorphosis. Equipped with a language of extraordinary sensuality, the author carries out in Latente an original and powerful exercise in erotic perception of reality.
Dissection of a storm
A title that points to the impossible, to human vanity, to the lyric as the only way to fit a language incapable of tackling everything to immerse itself in almost dreamlike concepts, symbols as unreal as finally bases that sustain that other side where the storms are not dissect.
A building next to a frozen lake, surrounded by mountains. Rest house? Last station of a spiritual pilgrimage? The director of the institution listens to the dreams and obsessions of the inmates, and prescribes therapies that will take the most unsuspected forms. Music is played, books are read, life is analyzed in the laboratory of symbols, among which hair becomes a story of time. The institution talks about the arrival of a storm, and the guests prepare for the final onslaught. But the end is always to come. Dissecting a storm behaves like a crystal ball inside a crystal ball.
Half of the house
The improper return to the places where he was happy. The past as a tangible aroma that awakens images, ghosts, noises and longings. But they also return some old childhood fear or dilemmas taken without possible revision.
Penetrate the past of an old house, after a life spent in oblivion: secrets, nooks, drawers, keys, doors, windows, garden, talking objects ... The anonymous protagonist of Half of the house returns to the family summer residence, closed for years, to attend the staging of a mystery and a decision never surpassed: «In reality, it is very difficult to know if I have come to keep a secret or if, on the contrary, I have come to open a chest in which there is a secret kept.
The new work by Menchu ​​Gutiérrez, which takes place with the form of the novel, the spirit of poetry and the gaze of the attentive painter, weaves together a story of deep psychological suspense and invites us to a game of doubles from which we will not be able to escape.
