It must be wonderful to find that moment in which to say: I am going to dedicate myself entirely to writing ... Angeles Case He did it back in 1994. Maintaining journalistic collaborations to kill the bug, from that year he was able to focus on his greatest passion, literature.
A fundamental support for this decision would be his recognition as finalist for the 1994 Planeta Award, but best of all, the decision was not light at all. Some years later he managed to win this same award, closing the circle of self-realization and perseverance.
With regards to work of Ángeles CasoIn my opinion it has a point of journalistic chronicle, brought from its years in press and television. But finally a romantic point ends up intoxicating many of his works. A mixture in which perhaps the descriptive part of the scenario is perfectly supported to finally make the character in turn shine more.
3 recommended novels by Ángeles Caso
The weight of the shadows
Perhaps I am not entirely correct in terms of the author's decision to dedicate herself entirely to writing, thanks, as I have assumed, to her status as a finalist for the 1994 Planet award with this novel.
Perhaps it was more a matter of discovering that he really wrote very well, and that he contributed a distinctive mark that was highly valued by his readers. The weight of the shadows ends up introducing us to a singular woman: Mariana. The world is what passes between sun and sun, but Mariana's experiences and feelings transcend from the work to a possible universal sensation of humanity.
Summary: Mariana de Montespin's life is the permanent flight of a ghost that haunts her: loneliness. Mariana walks the world like a shadow -the shadow of others-, carrying in her heart the weight of all those who, from family memory or from her own reality, have been part of her life.
A world unfolds around it, that of the French aristocracy at the end of the last century, which is cracking as the twentieth century advances unstoppably, with the rise of new classes, with its wars and atrocities, its changes in customs and its surrender to modernity.
Paris, Normandy or the Côte d'Azur are landscapes in this novel. But this is, above all, a story of the soul, which is expressed in it by emotions and fantasies. And the soul of Mariana de Montespin imagines legends and braids dreams about a real world that is insufficient for her. The Weight of Shadows is a masterful tale of loves and frustrations.
A long silence
Going back to where you were happy is not always entirely recommended. Doing it when a war has been concerned to devastate and dehumanize, to sow hatred that seems infinite, can end up being a nightmare.
Summary: After the Spanish civil war, a woman whose husband and son belonged to the Republican side returns to the provincial city where she had spent her life until the beginning of the conflict. Her daughters and her young granddaughter accompany her on the difficult return. As if it were a fatal omen, a heavy downpour welcomes this group of women, tired, weak, defeated, but in whose glances beats all the will and desire of the survivors to get ahead.
Except for the girl, they have all lost a lot, perhaps too much, in the war. In short, the victors will begin to make it clear that they will not be able to recover anything they still believed they possessed, from the family home, which has been usurped, to the beauty of their dreams.
The defeat has not only been total: it must be continuous. A long silence delves into one of the most terrible episodes in our recent history from the gaze, lucid and defenseless, with which a series of women, very different from each other, observe the same and desolate landscape in front of which there is no other refuge than the I remember, no more gesture than surrender.
Against the wind
Love when it is a bond that goes beyond the physical, and therefore can be established in a way more freed from passion, becomes a force through which human beings can put all their efforts in its defense. It's probably one of our most atavistic instincts: the protection of those we love.
Summary: The São girl, born to work, like everyone else in her village, decides to build a better life for herself in Europe. After learning to get up again and again, he will find a new friendship with a Spanish woman who is drowning in her insecurities.
São will restore the will to live and together they will build an indestructible bond that will make them strong. Moving story of friendship between two women who live in opposite worlds told with the beauty of reality. A novel full of sensitivity for readers eager for adventure and excitement. Ángeles Caso captivates again with an essential story to read and share.
Other recommended books by Ángeles Caso
The disinherited
As a follow up to his successful The forgotten onesIn this volume, the author addresses the stories of the women who helped shape the modern world. The chapters dedicated to those who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women in the XNUMXth century, or the lives of those who promoted the beginning of the French Revolution, only to be later separated and denied, are exciting.
But this book also has a place for the great ladies of literature, from Mary Shelley or the Brontës to Emilia Pardo Bazán; political figures such as Mariana Pineda or the first socialists, including Flora Tristán, Concepción Arenal or Rosario de Acuña; Impressionist painters like Berthe Morisot... All of them had to resort to cunning to survive in a world of men. Las desheredadas is, in short, a book that breaks with the culture of canceling female talent through the centuries.
