Be it a novel or a story. The question for Liliana blum it is to make a mosaic of all narration. A kind of puzzle where the pieces never fit except for the force of hopelessness. All finally joined with a glue improvised by the circumstances, without a thread of possible destiny or magic lace. And yes, it is the puzzle that most closely resembles reality, whether you look at it closely with its stridency, its hanging pieces and its folds, or from afar with its cubist appearance.
Because that's how everything is. Each day is a story, each scene is a story, each moment that you give to the god Cronos is a link in the concatenation of events that trace the destinations that will be told. So, as Liliana Blum does well, it is best to tell it as it is, so as not to suffer disappointments or get complicated with plots far from reality. All those metaphors between lyrical and prosopopoeic so that the closest thing to our world is like the egg to the chestnut ...
So we are warned of what we can find in unleashed literature like Liliana Blum's. The question is to overthrow artifice and delve into shadows with that vision and morbid desire to get to the bottom of everything, where there is no longer any light.
Top 3 recommended books by Liliana Blum
The pentapod monster
The wise man said that he was human and nothing human is alien to him. Even the most ruthless aberration, certainly the most abominable deviation, still represents the human, the worst possibility of our reason turned into a wicked sick desire. Daring him to tell it is a task of literary exorcism for souls little healed of horror.
Raymundo Betancourt is the model citizen: honest and responsible professional, supportive and committed to the well-being of his community. But since life is not only work, he also indulges in two simple everyday pleasures: cinnamon gum and the girls he keeps kidnapped in his basement.
The pentapod monster He confronts us without ambiguity or euphemisms with the murderer's dark mind, the adorable and manipulative psychopath to whose charms Aimeé succumbed - another "little one", but in her own way - to the point of becoming an accomplice in exchange for a little love.
Liliana Blum is as skilled as she is ruthless. The heart is not touched to push the reader into the pit where that beast with the skin of an angel that hides in broad light lives and that could be your neighbor, or mine, or anyone's ...
Hare face
The stereotype of the psychopath on duty also extended to the feminine in roles such as Carrie from Stephen King or Lisbeth Salander from the Millennium trilogy. Only in the case of women there is always a trace of revenge and revenge. Old debts for which one can charge the price that best understands ...
With deep sleaze and black humor, Hare face it is an honest account of what reifies us; of the prison that the body supposes and the mechanisms that we uselessly look for to cover what in the eyes of others makes us monstrous, because «there is always something, a vestige, a mark that betrays, which is sometimes even more embarrassing than the defect itself, real or apparent… ».
The group that plays on stage is sad, although the vocalist does not seem like a bad match. The dark atmosphere is just right to hide the scar on her face, the painful mark from the surgeries she underwent as a child due to her cleft lip and which earned her the cruel nickname of Hare Face.
His uninhibited air and his exuberant body manage to attract the attention of the singer, with beautiful blue eyes but a flabby and deformed body. He is the chosen one. After talking for a while, she takes him home. It is curious - he thinks - that the man's narcissism makes him believe that the initiative is his, when he does not know what awaits him ...
Liliana Blum, one of the most interesting narrators on the Mexican literary scene, addresses in this novel the problems of harassment, destructive relationships and, in particular, the dehumanization implicit in the way we observe the other and reduce them to their defects.
Citrus sadness
Beyond the weeping willows is the sadness of citrus. And it is no longer a question of mere imposture, of histrionic melancholy, but of the certainty of death stalking the vegetable world with its virtue or defect of absolute cowardice. Mutatis mutandis that same nature can inhabit the human soul in any of the examples of this labyrinthine narrator.
In botany, "citrus sadness" is a fatal disease that kills trees, staining them a dull gray and a deadly droopy look. Under this premise, Liliana Blum's stories reveal the impossibility of feelings and emotions threatened by the darkness that inhabits us or those we love.
Liliana Blum ruthlessly pruned the detachment, lies and violence that runs through our veins or is seen in our streets, where a father accompanies his daughter to a motel, a man stalks from the Internet or drug trafficking kidnaps young people. Restlessness, restlessness or fear are the wisdom of this forest; a heartbreaking force and evocation, its roots. Do you go inside it?
