If there is an author who currently addresses the narrative aspect more directly oriented towards intimacy, that is Carmen Amoraga. Although curiously they are also noteworthy, in that taste for narrating from the inside, about loves, disappointments and losses, male authors such as Boris Izaguirre o Maxim Orchard.
In the case of Carmen Amoraga, to delve into that part of the intimate, of the family and of social relationships (from the most human part and considering the uproar of our days), this author focuses her efforts on an almost always female protagonism. In any case, any type of character in his works will always be exposed to the open grave to the edges of everyday life.
Precisely because of that humanist imprint, by that reflection of life itself in a kind of hyperrealism transmuted into letters, Amoraga has been recognized on various occasions with some of the most prestigious and popular accolades.
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La vida eso
The title itself already invites us to consider a kind of surprise or rather bewilderment with the hazards of destiny, with the vision of a life rather close to its end. An existence that has left the bitter taste of a dramatic novel, with its brilliant moments but doomed to melancholy.
The problem is when that discovery comes in advance, as sudden as death itself that haunts dreams. Giuliana discovers that loneliness in the face of danger, in the face of so much still to do. The absent William, as with everything lost, gains the strength of an idealized happiness with him.
Only resilience as a concept never so euphemistic for inexhaustible pain, can push you to continue with your inertia towards the placebo of forgetfulness that never comes, but that can come to suggest with the idea that another life is still possible.
Just live
The feeling that the trains pass is not something so alien or pilgrim. It usually happens to every mortal who at some point meditates on what did not go quite right. The perspective can sink you or make you strong, it all depends on whether you are able to extract something positive between the despondency and hopelessness.
Something like a resilience about your own loss of life. But of course, cases like those of Pepa, the protagonist of this story, are those objective cases of loss of life. It is human to give in to the cause of a mother sunk in the loss of her husband, but the situation can become so absorbing that it ends up annulling the caregiver.
Narrating a life lost due to this misfortune extended from a mother to a daughter is a dramatic insight without equal. In the end, her mother manages to emerge from her depression, but her life seems to have vanished in the meantime of her mother's recovery. If Pepa has made a mistake or if she really did what she had to do is the dilemma that appears to Pepa when the new scenario of time without dedication to which she surrenders opens up before her like a hard emotional crossroads.
But it may not have all been bad. In that dedication towards her mother's recovery, Pepa has learned to fight and try to get the little positive out of a burdened life. For this reason, when she meets Crina, a woman who is a victim of the white slave trade, pregnant and completely annulled by her oppressors, Pepa gives herself body and soul to her liberation, in front of everything and against everyone. And in her new work, in the improvement shared with that new victim, perhaps Pepa ends up freeing herself as well.
The time in the meantime
Nothing more relative than time, despite its construction and its mathematical cadence. The best of our hours does not last anywhere near the same as the worst hour awaiting fatal news.
In this novel, time is configured from the lives of characters who hang from it like puppets, as we all do after all. Nothing more fearsome than a bad moment that begins to slow down the seconds of pain or that precipitates what was left to live just before knowing that it was not as much as we thought.
From María José to her mother, with their very particular interaction loaded with that strange feeling of need for liberation and extreme dependence, passing through friendships also made nuclear and interventions such as cameos of those people who cross our path with their transcendental role. An intense novel about fundamental emotion, the essence of learning to live.