The 3 best books by the suggestive Laura Esquivel

Originality is a trigger for success. Then you have to consider the opportunity and the ubiquity. I say it because Laura Esquivel reached the literary firmament with an original novel that ended up being timely, in this case it did not need ubiquity (euphemism to talk about contacts and godparents ...)

Como agua para chocolate was a highly original work that was inserted into the popular imagination as a novel necessarily to be read. And so it moved in the literary circles of half the world, breaking records for years and years at the beginning of the 90s. The magical realism that the novel boasts is capable of transforming and elevating the kitchen towards an emotional realm ... but let's talk about she later, in her due position of my particular ranking.

For the rest, Laura Esquivel contributes in her works that brilliance inherited from naturalism, with its tragic part and its push towards sublimation, positive fantasy made into experiences and resilience as a human focus that can be assumed from the very consideration of staying alive each new day. . These are very generic impressions that acquire their nuances in each of the different proposals of the narrative of this author gifted by Mexican politics for some years now.

Top 3 recommended novels by Laura Esquivel

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

The kitchen, the culinary has appeared, of course, in the history of literature, but until the moment in which this book emerged, nothing in the key of fiction had given this pre-eminence to the kitchen, the art and the delight of gastronomy. Love with the aroma of a pot and seduction as a preparation for the most intense menu. Gastronomic alchemy in search of the elixir of love.

Summary: A surprising, unforgettable novel, whose theme revolves around an impossible love, to achieve which the protagonist will resort to the culinary arts.

Under the guise of a serialized serial and leading each chapter with a recipe, this magical story turns gastronomy into a code of sensuality loaded with penetrating aromas and dazzling colors. Tita is the little one, she lives on a ranch with her sisters and their servants, and despite knowing she is condemned not to be able to enjoy love because she has to take care of her mother, she will not give up on Pedro.

He loves her too, but he will marry his sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. Tita takes refuge in the kitchen and dedicates herself to preparing magical dishes capable of transforming the emotions and behavior of those who try them, waiting for her tragic destiny to be fulfilled.

like water for Chocolate

Intimate succulent

Daring to write the second part of a highly original work will almost inevitably lead to frustration and disappointment among readers. More of the same is impossible to have the same effect if the surprise factor has already disappeared.

So, Laura Esquivel was extremely intelligent and later presented this hybrid book between fiction and reality, between the anecdotal of the stories and the reality of her love for cooking and her assumption of the power of this noble art towards a physical balance , emotional and even telluric.

Summary: Smells, flavors, clay pots, the physical and libidinous sensation of preparing recipes, tasting the pots and the fruits: everything is in Laura Esquivel, in her recipes, her stories. A sensational compilation of ideas, recipes and tips, all kneaded by the kitchen fire, from the author of Like Water for Chocolate.

There is currently a growing interest in gastronomy, not only in terms of the dishes but also the preparation ritual and all that universe of sensual pleasures and emotional charges that more people share every day.

A living work that combines autobiography, essays, stories and cookbook, in which Laura Esquivel approaches the reader in the first person to almost talk personally with him, between pots and stoves.

Laura Esquivel explains the importance of cooking in the recovery of contact with the earth and its fruits, tells us how she conceived the characters of her bestseller Como agua para chocolate and includes a fascinating and delicious recipe book of Mexican delicacies. An authentic treatise on the feminine vision of the world.

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My black past

Twenty-some years later, maybe yes ... With the arrival of new generations of readers, it is possible to consider addressing again LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE in a viewing of new fiction.

Summary: This novel is much more open. It continues to have a claiming point for women, but at the same time it also wins in social criticism, in that outrageous individualism that only advocates image, appearances, a world empty of plastic smiles. What is clear is that the common note between these two stories is love.

In a world towards moral and emotional drift, only love can be the lifeline, however fleeting it may be, however ephemeral it may be. Love that something will remain. If you don't want to become one of those shadows that roam this world, your only hope is to be able to love. Give yourself to the cause, as it happens in this novel.

my black past
5/5 - (10 votes)

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