The 3 best books by the wonderful Jeffrey Eugenides

When the biography accompanies the author with that halo of mystery or eccentricity, a more sophisticated imaginary ends up being composed around the creative process of the current writer. If there is also the case of a Jeffrey Eugenides which only seems subject to its creative imprint without further commercial conditions, the matter acquires dyes of work or cult author, especially if it is finally accompanied by great awards such as the Pulitzer novel.

The particularity of this author comes from a name that reveals his mixture between the American and his Greek origins evidenced in the etymological. And so you can make your way with that hallmark of someone who belongs to two worlds and can synthesize the best.

But as I say, the good Jeffrey does not lavish much in the novel and it is not that he follows a very regular cadence in his publications of volumes of stories or stories. And certainly, despite this anarchy, a new book is always welcome that assures surprising stories of love and death, of loneliness, of morality, of a multitude of deeply human aspects that have passed through the sieve of criticism.

Top 3 Recommended Books by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides

The title of this novel already leaves little room for optimism. But without a doubt it is an unavoidable invitation to that open grave literature that confronts us with the great contradictions of our existence in this world.

The grim story of the five Lisbon sisters make up a macabre portrait whose morbid, sinister appearance captivates us from the first page. The idea of ​​female virginity faced with an openly sexually explicit world gives off an intense aroma of contained sexuality, of uncontrollable desires restrained from the most retrograde and moralistic authority.

Not a few young people from the place tried to contact those girls locked up in their house as the only way to keep them under control as true virgins waiting for a mystical fertilization or just away from all temptation for its own sake. Of course, passion and youth cannot be contained without paying a high price.

The memory of the girls is still alive in the imagination of those young people who tried to haunt them. And when they are no longer so young, some of them want to delve into that dark side of a time that was at times very close and chilling that accompanied their transition to adulthood and that is therefore still there, waiting for answers...

Middlesex

Sex, that argument turned into a vein for a Jeffrey Eugenides turned into the Freud of current literature. A narrative about human hermaphroditism, about that impossible condition in the functional for our species and that nevertheless is as real as any other condition of our being.

But the narration is not a confession focused solely on the moral fit of transsexuality, perhaps the matter is rather an excuse to naturalize the matter and finally delve into the idea of ​​change, longing and longings, the melancholy of some moments and the need to escape from others, all represented in a singular family, that of a Cal born as Calliope through whom we discover a passing of the years resembling an evolution of our civilization.

A novel that connects with that already traditional narrative intention that presents the current United States as a world forged from the experiences of people constantly pushed by changes.

The bridal plot

The subject of female sexuality is for the author a wonderful background in which to locate that strange dichotomy between pleasure and destiny that supposes the most physical and carnal love for a woman who houses the brightness of the moment and the consequence of destiny in a single outburst. vital.

The protagonist of this novel, Madeleine Hanna, is a lover of romantic literature, that period in which women burst from creativity to cultural inclusion and a first shadow of equalization.

Between books and more books, Madeleine unleashes her lovemaking needs in the arms of two men who represent antithesis and synthesis.

The love shared by more than two may have a place for a while, but ultimately you always have to decide. And deciding on the realm of emotions can end up being a tragedy worthy of the greatest novel.