Creativity from a focus taken from the mediocrity, as in the case of Camila Sosa, manages to provide that necessary difference for an area such as literature, which always needs divergences, disparity and a break with uniformity to continue being that space of freedom. willing to collide with everything to keep consciences alert.
Camila Sosa works in cinema, theater, poetry and prose (whether it is a story or a novel). A branch in that creative channel that stems from introspective concerns that flourish in interpretation or reflection made into lyrics. Here we will focus on those novels that have made this author a reference in the transsexual world capable of jumping to a literature that is as unique as it is universal.
Because the best thing is that synthesis between the story of experiences and own perspectives (on what is an arduous path towards realization when not everything fits between identity and the most physical being), and the normalization that is achieved with detail, empathy and the essentially human mimicry of any situation recounted as a vivid passage.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Camila Sosa Villada
The evil ones
In this world of extremes, poles and bad grapes, what is different ends up pointing to what is bad as what is different from white can only be black. It is not a question of opening brains sealed with gray silicone. But everyone who enters this book is because he has the will and firm determination not to be carried away by dangerous inertia, exclusively dichotomous to the point of festering.
When she arrived in Córdoba capital to study at the university, Camila Sosa Villada went one night, scared to death, to spy on the transvestites of Parque Sarmiento and found her first place of belonging in the world. The evil ones It is an initiation rite, a fairy and horror tale, a group portrait, an explosive manifesto, a guided tour of the author's imagination and a chronicle unlike any other.
The two trans facets that most repel and terrify well-thinking society converge in their DNA: transvestite fury and the party of being a transvestite. Marguerite Duras, Wislawa Szymborska and Carson McCullers coexist in her literary voice. The latest phenomenon of Argentine literature, translated into German, French, Norwegian and Croatian.
sandro's girlfriend
To go through the mysteries of transvestite love, Camila is armed with her arrope voice and the amulets she knew how to build in the intensity of the night. Sometimes she loves and sometimes she hates, she desires and is desired, she mixes sorrow and happiness in each of the bodies on which she pours herself. Once fertilized, it generates carnivorous verses and docile plants that populate the balconies that its tacos inhabit. Enormous forger of magic, we can only crane our necks from below to see her bleed, burn and laugh at the world.
Perhaps the memory for the gone lovers is the one that hurts the least of all those that his writing offers us, there is also the mother rented to another family, the father's fatigue in his fight against poverty, the lover's beloved, the dead friends. At times we would like to shield her from some memories, but it would be like encapsulating a firefly, a flicker of the most delicate light before absolute darkness. A fragile being capturing the words that come to him through the open air of experience. The reading heart that is encouraged to travel the wild beauty of sandro's girlfriend you won't be able to get out unscathed.
I'm a fool for loving you
Stages like rings where life is fought every day as soon as you stop being that ominous audience that attends life longing for morbidity to kill its own unspeakable philias or that simply enjoys the blows of others against the canvas. A jolt of stories that seek the knock out, until blood splashes all the spectators. With inspiration from his compatriot Samantha Schweblin, these stories acquire the most marked brilliance of the diamond born of coal.
In the 90s, a woman makes a living as a rented girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a Latin transvestite gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugbiers haggle over the price of a night of sex and in return they get what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem...
The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by extravagant and deeply human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves. I'm a fool for loving you confirms that Camila Sosa Villada is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.
Owner of a dazzling and daring imagination, she is capable both of speaking the language of a victim of the Mexican inquisition and of building a dystopian universe where transvestite existence takes its revenge. Owner of a unique style, Sosa crosses the limits between reality and magic in these stories, honoring oral tradition with unparalleled ease and solidity.
