“Crac ”by Josefina Licitra. Seix Barral, 168 pgs., $ 24,900.
Josefina Tendor has a long career as a journalist that includes from long chronicles to film scripts and an editor’s position in the magazine “Orsai”. In “Crac”, the gaze concentrates in a conflict of his own: the distance he has maintained with his father for 10 years. Or, rather, the one that his father imposes on her. Without concrete facts that will cause apart, family history, however, contains sufficient elements to make way for interpretations.
Born in a home of very young militants, the dictatorship forced him to emigrate to tender father. His mother did not want to follow him. But that forced distance never meant abandonment or forgetting. The letters were a constant bond and, later, travel and visits. Why was the relationship interrupted? The readers, together with the author, travel in detail their past in search of an explanation.
The suffering is palpable, although the text does not exhibit the tragedies of so many current books of “self -fiction.” And each line finds a beautiful way to tell that penalty.
“The heart in winter ”by Kevin Barry. Edhasa, 200 pages, $ 29,500.
He is one of the most dazzling writers in Ireland, as described by his country’s criticism. Author of novels and stories, Edhasa has just published his latest book, a western who began writing decades ago and concluded (according to the author) in the time of Pandemia.
The story takes place in the city of Butte, Montana, in 1891. Barry himself traveled to investigate the place and found that the Irish population there was remarkable. Tom, the protagonist, is Irish. And drunk, poet, drug lover and prostitutes. His life takes a total turn when he meets Polly, a girl who comes to marry a miner, one of the strong men of the place. It is a marriage agreed by correspondence that stops working as soon as it begins. Because Tom and Polly fall in love and flee from Butte going through mountains and forests, while the betrayed husband organizes a hunt to punish them.
His writing is exceptional. Poetic, fun and cruel, with the sad sarcasm of which it cannot be resigned to the world being so horrible. The end closes the story perfectly. And the translation of Andrea Lombardi adds many points.
“Mariana Enriquez. Ampersand, 300 pages, $ 18,900.
The first scene of “Archipelago”, the last book by Enriquez published in the Ampersand Readers collection, reveals the initial situation of their readings: the family home of Lanús, the library in the hall and an accumulation of titles that came, mainly, from the collections of the time that were bought in kiosks. Like many readers born in popular sectors, the arrival in books was dictated more by chance than by a family guide, trained in the literary world. An author pointed to another and a genre was deployed in similar texts. Stephen King’s epigraphs suggested reading Shirley Jackson and the Robin Hood collection, Salgari and Alcott.
Where, how and with what humor Lee Mariana, could be a good description of the stations of the text. “Archipelago” can function as a guide to expand the horizons of a library or to deepen the experiences of a writer admired by many. In the end, the text brings a list with all the authors who formed Enriquez.
“Why some men hate women ”by Vivian Gornick. Sixth floor, 141 pgs., $ 25,900.
For those who discovered this journalist and feminist born in New York with “fierce attachments” or those who not yet read it, this meeting of texts that were written half a century ago, long before Metoo, when feminism began its battles, is highly recommended.
“Stalingrad ”by Jonathan Trigg. Last and present, 350 pgs., $ 33,990.
“The battle seen by the Germans,” details the subtitle of this text that gives a new twist to the analysis of one of the central battles of the Second War. The author was an officer of the British army and a specialist in the study of volunteer combatants from other countries that participated in the contest on the German side.
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