If recently it indicated, in the entry of the Argentine writer Claudia Pineiro, that the Argentine narrative had a female voice, I am now concerned with the proper rectification of generalizations to speak of the also Argentine Eduardo Sacheri. Because this narrator from Buenos Aires also represents that generational renewal that every creative field needs and develops with the imprint of the spontaneous, awakening creativity and ingenuity with that magic of chance, ability and dedication.
The case of Eduardo Alfredo is that of a professor with a tremendous literary background that he accumulated in parallel to his historical training. But it is also the case of the passionate about the king of sports, more king than anywhere in Argentina), a world of football on which he also turned that narrative task that combines sport and culture (just as here a server humbly tried to do with my short novel Real Saragossa 2.0)
However talk about the most important Eduardo Sacheri is to enter many other novels with that inevitable Argentine context, unavoidable for every writer from that country who needs to contribute his critical vision, but pointing to the universality of the human with characters imbued with basic emotions and diverse plots that as soon as they point to the noir genre as it surprises us with adventures that are always rabidly vital between the existential, the social and even the political.
3 recommended books by Eduardo Sacheri
The general workings of the world
Despite our common belief to the contrary, there is undoubtedly some transcendent wisdom in youth. Only when you are young do you get to know the general functioning of the world, in its friendly version at least, when there is still time to try, whatever your will pushes you towards. The boys in this story are those wise men about to stumble over the same stone, only willing to get up again and again. Getting up to face the world again with the only wisdom that only the courage of a young heart can emerge unscathed from so many falls...
The trip to the Iguazu Falls of Federico Benítez and his children has already been arranged, but a last-minute call alters the plans: an old and unpostponable debt of gratitude, forces him to change course and set out, with those two displeased teenagers to the drag, towards the distant Patagonia.
In four days of travel, this self-absorbed and clumsy man will tell young people a hidden story that is his, his and that of his soulless adolescence, his and that of the First Interdivisional Soccer Tournament of the Arturo Del Manso National Normal College , played in 1983. And that soccer tournament, with its arbitrariness, with its tricks, with its pettiness but also with its greatness, with its lights and shadows, will be for this fifteen-year-old boy a laboratory of life, of that will come out transformed.
In the form of a travel story, an initiation novel, Eduardo Sacheri traps us in an exciting story about human bonds and shows us how in the immense frieze of power a generous figure can suddenly be cut out capable of changing the course of life. a life.
Being happy was this
Writing about feelings without falling into empty affectation is always a challenge for anyone who is about to write about the topic of topics: love. It is true that the possibilities skyrocket because beyond a possible definition, love reinvents itself in each soul, at each moment and in any new situation.
Parenthood is a strange bond between the rational and the natural, between the idea of a being created from your rib, but that can never be as intense as maternal gestation and the feeling beyond everything that this new person is your time. future, which you will no longer live.
All that amalgamation of sensations burst into Lucas's life when precisely that, his life, goes through a desert phase of emotions, nihilistic and restrainedly critical. Suddenly Sofía…, the adolescent who is his daughter and whose past he knows nothing about. A young woman who was once alone in the world after the death of her mother, with whom Lucas conceived her years ago.
The meeting ends up being an existential placebo for both, motivation and confession, new faith in life and hope, all that sum of active principles necessary so that the past does not eat you up.
The question of their eyes
There are few who have not seen the movie The Secret in Their Eyes, based on this novel. One of those meritorious films in its translation to the big screen. The story places us in a present in which Benjamín Chaparro evokes the hard years of the Argentine dictatorship, with a despicable performance of the State in many aspects, with violence as a political response and with inescapable ties with a Cold War that he found in distant Argentina. a strange sounding board.
Today's Benjamin navigates through the feelings of guilt that his omission in a murder case produced in him. He was "only" a justice official, but he missed the opportunity to make justice more evident... Those hard years that spanned decades were capable of bringing out the worst in many, but they also served to awaken great values in which They wanted to break with that ominous legacy spread throughout all social spheres.
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The night of the Power Plant
The bare-knuckle protests were born in the days of the corralito, of that Argentina without liquidity that denied its citizens the simple fact of withdrawing money from the ATM. Social instability was about to lead to something more serious.
And in the midst of that tension we find this story of characters on a tightrope, in that strange position that makes us see, through their eyes, that hackneyed phrase of "what is truly important", health and survival. In principle, the novel begins with the frustrating reality of some friends who want to start a company. And that's where the story takes on a fascinating dynamism.
The eight partners are not willing to lose their investments, stolen by a state unable to support itself with its own resources. So the robbery seems the only way out, with that ideal of Robin Hood that only seeks compensation, elemental justice.
The character of Perlassi, turned into the leader of the band, leads us through all kinds of sensations and serves to introduce us to the motivations of each one. With the natural critical look at what happened, Sacheri makes us enjoy a very entertaining novel with a brutal touch.
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