Umfazi onikwe ubulumko beminyaka yakhe emide ahlala phakathi kokuhamba kunye neencwadi, Elena Pniatowska Uhlala ezinikele kwinjongo yabasetyhini ekuhlaleni. Umbhali kunye nembali yezinto azibonileyo kwihlabathi liphela, usizisela apha isincoko esimele umzabalazo obalulekileyo wabafazi ababalaseleyo. Uyabalisa kwaye uyabalisa ngamabali. Kubalulekile ukuqonda inani elivelayo lomfazi ukusukela kwinkulungwane yamashumi amabini.
Uluntu lwanamhlanje lusilwa imizabalazo eyahlukeneyo, phakathi kwabo eyabafazi, abo baphakamisa amazwi abo emseleni wabo kwaye abayazi ingcamango yokunikezela. Phakathi kwesihlwele, kukho abo bachasayo okwangoku: oomama, amajoni, ababhali, abasebenzi basekhaya; abafazi ngaphambi nasemva kwako konke.
Abangafundanga uhlawula imbeko ebusweni kumabhinqa alwa kwi-Revolution, ngokungathandabuzekiyo ku-Jesusa Palancares nasekuthuleni kwabasetyhini abasenkonzweni. Iqukethe ubuncwane bukaNellie Campobello, uJosefina Vicens kunye noRosario Castellanos, abenza indlela yabo kwixesha lokubhala elalilawulwa ngamadoda. Ngelixa ukunyamalala kuka-Alaíde Foppa kubonisa ubunyani beLatin American, umzabalazo ongapheliyo kaRosario Ibarra de Piedra unika ilizwi koomama abanyamalalayo kunye nesizathu sobufazi sikaMarta Lamas sicinga kwakhona ukuba kuthetha ukuthini ukuba ngumfazi kwinkulungwane yama-XNUMX.
Ngokudityaniswa kwezincoko, umfundi uzintywilisela kubomi babantu abangalulanga, abalibalekayo, kodwa ongazange athule: «U-Elena Poniatowska wenze igalelo njengababhali abambalwa ukunika abantu basetyhini indima ephambili, kodwa hayi eyomthendeleko, kuluntu lwethu", UCarlos Fuentes.