When you can already make a selection of the best works by an author (with the subjective component that the matter always entails), it is that his literary career already has enough travel. And the case of the journalist Theresa Old, as well recognized for its television appearances as for its narrative work, already supposes that consolidation in an area spurred by the opportunity of the public face but finally ratified in an interesting narrative proposal.
The transition from journalism to literature is not so strange. In fact, it is ultimately about communication, about investigating characters and situations to extract the truth or to project stories. The list of journalists passed to the world of the book is constantly increasing with exponents such as Maximum Huerta, Carmen Chaparro o Carlos of Love.
And each one tells their stories and readers take care of sifting through each of the forays so that finally the ones who do best are left in front of the blank page. Theresa Old She is an outstanding survivor of that question about timeliness or quality that finally opts for the second option.
If you want to get started in the particular universe of Teresa Viejo, here are my references ...
Top 3 recommended novels by Teresa Viejo
Domestic animals
And the moment comes when every writer unleashes himself in a profession that he already masters to write moving stories to the depths or transgressive until the last moral loophole.
This novel by Teresa Viejo is a perfect demonstration of the indicated casuistry. Sometimes there comes a time when the balance of love swings from affection and routine to desire and incontinence. Filters, taboos, morals..., call it X. The point is that it can arise, no one is free from it. Abigail doesn't try to justify why he did it.
It only shows us the easy path that leads to the forbidden. In fact, the human being advances based on conquests of reason over what is forbidden, or at least over what is difficult. Everything else is immobility and habit toward the abyss. The same thing happens in the space of emotions. And it can happen that, when we seek the limit of emotions towards that determined as prohibited, we regain the feeling of being alive.
It's not Abigail's thing, it's part of the contradiction of being human, in the same way that we breathe oxygen to live while we oxidize our cells and age. It is a matter for each one to weigh. It is only up to Abigail to consider what he is doing. Perhaps he has given in to an absolutely uncontrollable inner sound and fury, or perhaps he has just succumbed to some slogan of a new campaign to find happiness.
Be that as it may, sex can become a great source to satisfy the desire for rebellion focused on uncontrolled passions. The burst of an orgasm can reconcile you with a world that seems to deny you happiness. Let it be known that all this is not my thing 🙂, it is what the character of Abigaíl invites you to think, under whose skin he leads us on the frenetic journey of infidelity, of emotions to the limit.
Abigaíl shows us sex as a search for that self that is lethargic in the routine, but eager to break with everything even from time to time, sneaking away from the dictates of rationality. Perhaps Abigail seeks his atonement in this story. But what is clear is that it is not about seeking forgiveness from others but rather their complete liberation.
The memory of the water
The past can be a melancholy intuition that goes beyond your own lived time. Any photo in sepia can evoke that nineteenth-century aftertaste that points to the time of our ancestors at the dawn of our modern world.
Something like this happens to a protagonist of the story named Álvaro, fascinated by an enigmatic missive accompanied by a portrait that in itself make up a new vital mission for him.
The Isabela spa, with its reminiscences of a time and a place that no longer exists, is the focus of an investigation in which Álvaro will discover the strange transition between a place of relaxation that sinisterly became a place of condemnation, a sanatorium in which the monstrosity of the human being delves into one of the most fascinating contrasts that can be generated in a single space such as that ancient spa...
May time find us
The incursions into a prolific twentieth century in fascinating intra-histories of a Spain between wars, exiles, emigration and repression represent a gold mine for many authors such as Javier Fences, Maria Dueñas or Teresa Viejo herself (each from a very different substrate on which to build her story)
On this occasion we meet a large group of Spaniards who are looking in Mexico for a friendly space in which the threat of death does not become an unbreathable air for them. Waiting for him is Aurora, who emigrated some years ago, in the middle of the civil war.
The most transcendental encounter in this new landing towards freedom will occur between Aurora. Both share dreams and secrets, and those lands south of the fascinating United States reproduce the echoes of cinema lives, of satin and tuxedo nights. Starting over is never easy at any mature age, but Aurora and Pablo will do everything they can to achieve their dreams, no matter what the cost.
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