A curious thing usually happens in literature that, well analyzed, is still natural. We tend to discover precocious female writers before male writers who have already published a good book around the age of twenty.
As I already said, it is something that "usually" happens, because generalizing has never convinced me. But the trend is there, and in my humble opinion it is due to a greater interest or a quicker intellectual evolution towards the creative on the part of females. Cases like that of Espido freire, Lucía Etxebarría herself or even JK Rowling, for broadening the spectrum of authors.
And now with a more universal character, it is true that anyone who finds his enjoyment and defusion in writing from an early age, really also does so because of a load of thoughts and ideas that need the channel of narrative composition. A precocious writer or writer is always someone with many things to tell from the depths of his internal body to interpret reality from the particular prism.
Without a doubt, reading a precocious writer always brings new energy, an undeniable commitment of literature to life and the misunderstood wisdom of that golden age of youth. But in addition, a precocious writer such as Lucía Etxebarria, who knew how to reach the general reading public before the age of 30, always preserves that drive that allows you to prolong your creative youth, trust in what you do and always launch yourself into new adventures.
Despite some period of resignation that appeared in the career of this author, she has always returned with new books under her arm.
Top 3 recommended books by Lucía Etxebarría
Of everything visible and invisible
Any book that begins with the preposition "From" is presented to us packaged, like a Treatise on any social, political or scientific aspect.
And the truth is that in this novel we discover that, a narrative treatise on all that is seen and what is not seen around what it is to live and the drives that lead us. The visible parts of Ruth and Juan show two people still young, engaged in vital projects on the cinema or literature, still capable of devouring life and its time with enough energy.
The invisible is the well from which both have had to climb to get there. A well that they still peek into, from time to time, when they stop showing their most visible side from the outside. Tightrope walkers who, precisely at this risk, enjoy passionately without thinking about the destruction that may come later ...
A miracle in balance
Life cannot be understood in any other way. As I have pointed out before about the characters of Ruth and Juan, we can consider ourselves tightrope walkers who look forward, hopeful in the last step, without considering whether it would not be better to know if there could be a net under our feet and the rope ...
This novel introduces us to the tremendous character of Eva Agulló. She is in that strange transition between life given over to the hedonism or moral nihilism of addictions and the sudden horizon of supervening motherhood.
Perhaps a child does not have to know everything about his parents ... or maybe he does, for that he carries the chain of his genes. The point is that the generational change serves the author to expose the stark truth of the budding mother: Eva Agulló.
God has no free time
The first loves always have something of discovery, of brilliant incandescence of the first emotions, of uncontrolled passion, of authenticity after all. To consider going back to those scenarios when one is back from everything is strange and ridiculous.
And yet the melancholy of that yesterday caresses like a subtle hug that awakens the skin. That is what happens at some point to David when he meets Elena again. They were both dating and Alexia is in charge of the reunion.
Because Elena is between life and death and her cousin Alexia believes that it will not hurt to meet him again. Only after the humanitarian proposal we are discovering a mysterious framework that has to do with the life led by each of the characters since that idyllic youth.
Later friendships and loves did not always lead to the best paths ... A novel that epitomized a point of suspense between revamped passions, betrayals and gruesome twists ...
