The 3 best books by Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli it's something like the muse of Nicaraguan Sandinism. His lyrics of the social and feminist revolution are manifested in a poetic and prose activity that, while addressing his perspective of the world not without sensuality, also gives off that revolutionary aroma in tune with a country that found in its revolution one of the last opportunities to make the world believe that communism could become that utopia of social justice. The reasons for the failure of Sandinismo ... would be a very different issue to discuss.

The point is that this scale of vital referents penetrated a Gioconda Belli who found in his entire literary spectrum an irrepressible channel halfway between his imagination and his social conscience. Something similar to another of the great Nicaraguan writers, Sergio Ramirez. A tandem on which much of the literature from between centuries of this Caribbean country pivots.

Despite its poetic side, as always I will focus on its more prosaic side, a task to which, as happens with other total writers who combine both genres, transfers that aesthetic exquisiteness that transforms the descriptive into a formal delight between the melting pot of impressions and emotions.

Top 3 recommended books by Gioconda Belli

The inhabited woman

As the first great novel by this author, published at the end of the eighties, with the remains of a Somoza dictatorship hanging over Nicaragua like a persistent black cloud, the plot acquires a great ideological and protest intensity that, given the evidence of its most recent reissue , demonstrates its validity as a reference book of that revolutionary feminism full of struggles but also of love.

The notion of the necessary change from equality crosses time and space, goes back to a distant time in which Itzá faced some conquerors who offered submission or punishment as the first measure of intervention.

That woman's baton is taken over by Lavinia in an absolutely dramatic 20th century for a Nicaragua faced with its internal demons. She, Lavinia, would have the opportunity to get rid of ties with those old national tragedies that linger in her days.

But love and commitment sometimes build the deepest ideal that once known is transformative and inalienable.

The inhabited woman

The Scroll of Seduction

The determination of madness or sanity according to which historical moment can be considered today as a simple countercurrent exercise understood by the society of the moment as a disturbance where there was certainly clairvoyance.

I mean, of course, that crazy Juana whom we assume today has succumbed to an insanity between the passions of love for a detached Felipe and her strident ideas about natural social status.

With the passage of time, the eccentric characters end up taking center stage in the curious such as the romantics who recovered their figure or like Gioconda herself, who invites us to reinterpret a story always told by interests that occupied the pens of the chroniclers.

A kind of Juana seems to revive centuries later in Lucia. Her figure certainly evokes the old queen, according to the perspective of a scholar of the time.

Lucia ends up being convinced of her intricate connection with the queen and will tell us a new story with capital letters that will build a parallel plot about the queen and Lucia herself.

The Scroll of Seduction

The country of women

Not long ago I was referring to the novel The Power, by Naomi Alderman, a story about female empowerment from science fiction.

The country of women surrounds the same approach in essence, regarding a change in the social order with women as a totem. We travel to the country of Faguas, where the Erotic Left Party has gained power.

Viviana Sansón heads the new government and begins with her drastic and unpopular measures that seek to distance man from all strata of power. The feminist revolution taken to the extreme to pose a juicy hyperbole at times humorous and always critical.

The attack that attempts to erase Viviana from the map opens a series of investigations to determine who the murderer is while we continue to observe an erotic leftist Party that sounds like an intended mockery in a certain disenchanted way of frustrated revolutions.

The country of women
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