The 3 best books by Pilar Quintana

Within current Colombian literature, the case of its Cali quarry is interesting, with two great authors such as Angela Becerra and the own Pilar Quintana. Cali then capitalizes on a high-flying female narrative with two chroniclers determined to novel from realism. Of course, a very disparate realism. Because it can already be from the deep closeness, with its rawness and its emotions on the surface, to projections more focused on observation, from even estrangement, to end up discovering new nuances of what surrounds us.

In Pilar's case, hers is more the first version of that indicated realism, with close aromas that do not elude even the most sensual scents or even the metallic hint of blood. The usual consideration of the novel as an exercise in transmutation, living other lives among others, those with whom we come across on a day-to-day basis for which we can only sketch what someone like Pilar develops with a masterful sense of disturbing verisimilitude .

The exercise in question requires a kind of transmutation only within the reach of feathers particularly endowed for empathy and mimicry. Just what Pilar achieves in tune with another great Colombian writer such as she is Laura Restrepo. Always current aspects and demands from feminism to, more generically, a necessary humanization that is often so lost...

Top 3 recommended novels by Pilar Quintana

The dog

Chirli is the dog in question. The same name that a daughter could have had if she had ever arrived. The other question is whether the failure of a longed-for motherhood can be equally focused on a companion animal. The answer for many is yes. And sticking to the possibilities of love and affection can be true.

But the questions that we throw into the future with a child (definition of motherhood or fatherhood that I read somewhere) are not the same disquisitions with a companion animal. Because the animal will never make up its love with so many edges, so many angles, so many disappointments and reunions ...

Damaris is a black woman who lives in a quiet Pacific town who also hides her stormy side. She has been living with Rogelio in that place for many years. Their turbulent relationship has been marked by the fruitless search for the aforementioned offspring. And they try everything, and yet Damaris can't get pregnant. With all hope lost, Damaris finds a new hope when she is presented with the opportunity to adopt a dog. This new and intense relationship with the animal will be for Damaris the experience that will force her to reflect on her instinct and motherhood.

The dog

Little red riding hood eats the wolf

I have always said it, every novelist finds in the short narrative new reasons to continue telling stories, escape valves or even an area of ​​narration much more interesting than the novel. But the conventions are what they are and novels are still the most sought-after literary works. Perhaps it is a matter of occupying the bedside table for a longer time with his characters in charge of delivering us to the arms of Morpheus ...

But in the end the story or the tale are more intense doses of the drug that is writing. Because the created universe extends equally forward or backward once the protagonists of a story have been created. And although his scene is narrowed, the feeling of complete creation is much more intense and concentrated in time.

On this occasion, Pilar Quintana delves into the deepest transience, in brief existentialism, almost like a slogan. And yet everything takes on special power because each character is soon us ourselves given to drives, passions, fears, pains of the soul, sorrows, guilt and all those sensations and emotions that make us be who we are without hardly being aware.

This book offers us the possibility of discovering the deepest reasons for an action always determined by the decisions taken in tune with the deepest desires that push on so much sensation of existential annoyance or the reason capable of weathering those boiling desires badly, transforming us in prisoners of the impossible balance.

Little red riding hood eats the wolf

The Rare Dust Collector

Perhaps Colombia is the country that has best been able to distance itself from its darkest past in recent times. Waiting for everything to continue along the same lines, the ghosts of the nearest yesterday seem to be safeguarded by a society that has successfully undergone a surgery capable of removing mafias like stagnant tumors. And in the literary, this acquires a fishing ground of stories to tell for authors from that country.

In the late eighties, drug traffickers roamed the streets freely and the city was abuzz with the grandeur of easy money, neon colors, and women with silicone tits. At the end of the nineties the drug traffickers were in prison and the city in ruins. This is the setting for the story of La Flaca y el Mono.

She collects dust because she can't say no. Him because he still cannot find what he has been looking for all his life. She comes from below and he from above, and when they meet, the two cities meet. But in the middle of the two is Aurelio, the man that Flaca loves and the friend that Monkey betrayed in the past. Rare Powder Collectors is the story of a failed love between a social climber and two fine children and it is, at the same time, At the same time, a testimony of the decomposition of a society permeated by the culture of drug trafficking

The Rare Dust Collector
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