Nothing in literature has standard developmental guidelines like any other creative activity. But it is true that some powers predict interesting results. I mean, what starting by writing stories or poems is quite a guarantee of shaping the definitive writer or writer, loaded with trade and resources.
Rainforest Almada is another lucky example of crib literatureHow can your compatriot be Samantha Schweblin, both from the same generation of very high current narrative that began from the prose but lyrical intensity of the brief, including verses.
Currently Selva Almada is already an established novelist who reconciles her longer plots with that taste for the story and the tale that is never completely abandoned. In one format or another we find lives made in detail, opportune brushstrokes that offer the naked observer of the soul. An observer or reader who ends up discovering, fascinated, the best details of a canvas spread with the magical cadence of the author's brilliant narrative.
Top 3 recommended books by Selva Almada
Bricklayers
In many young writers today we discover a plausible taste for literature of greater substance than commercial dictates. These are writers like Selva who seek out their particular Macondo to end up creating new universes rich in humanism, a very necessary perspective in good literature with an awareness-raising and transformative essence. This novel is a good example.
It dawns on a vacant lot, occupied by a large Ferris wheel. Two bodies lie on the ground, surrounded by mud and withered grasses, without our knowing very well what they are doing there or where they have come from, but memory speaks.
Bricklayers is the story of an almost legendary enmity between two heads of the family, Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, two brickmakers who work during the day to earn their bread and lose themselves at night in gambling and sex, the only diversions available to them. almost all in an Argentine town where the heat is pressing and words are lacking. Those who will pay the price of so much hatred will be the children of these men so men, and the history of all is parading in the shadow of a Ferris wheel that turns in the void.
With a language that governs despair and a style inherited from the masters of great literature, Selva Almada takes us without further ado to the territory of the macho, a rough man who knows himself weak and therefore loves in bad ways and kills viciously, while women do what needs to be done to keep life going.
Dead girls
That reality surpasses fiction is an infumable topic because it is repeated. And only authors like Selva or the Colombian Laura Restrepo in his work "The divine«, They raise again the idea of ​​that reality that surpasses everything (usually badly) in search of an awareness about some necessarily recoverable facts to address guilt and exorcisms.
Selva Almada's clear prose portrays the invisible in black, and the daily forms of violence against girls and women become part of the same intense and vivid plot. With Dead girls the author opens new paths to Latin American non-fiction.
"Three provincial adolescents murdered in the eighties, three unpunished deaths that occurred when, in our country, we still did not know the term femicide."
Three murders among the hundreds that are not enough to make headlines or summon the cameras of the Buenos Aires channels. Three cases that arrive in disarray: they are announced on the radio, they are commemorated in a town newspaper, someone remembers them in a conversation. Three crimes that occurred in the interior of the country, while Argentina celebrated the return of democracy. Three deaths without guilty. These cases, turned into an obsession over the years, give rise to an atypical and unsuccessful investigation.
The wind that blows away
One of those first novels that was already convincing the birth of a new voice in Spanish literature. One of those stories that stop time, that attract the cosmos like a magnet located between the characters in the plot.
The heat overwhelms the Chaco mountain. Will rain? Stranded by a mechanical failure, Reverend Pearson and his daughter Leni wait patiently that Gringo Bauer and Tapioca, the boy they have left in their care for years, can repair it to continue on their way.
In that graveyard of dismantled cars and farm junk, teens hang out and adults talk about their own lives. The unexpected encounter will change everyone. Parents of their children, children in turn, adults will be confronted with their beliefs and pasts, a way to prepare for what is to come.
