Post 7: About authors and books...

If I have to write about books, I can not say that I have a favorite, much less just a favorite author! Who in the world can have only one! That's crazy, but good for this blog I chose two authors: Pedro Lemebel and Gabriel García Márquez.

Lemebel was a great Chilean author, in his novels refers to marginal environments of Santiago linked to the taboo of homosexuality, prostitution and poverty, as in the book "La esquina es mi corazón". One of the things he loved the most about his narrations was that he used a common language, of alleys and neighborhoods, to bring to light sensitive issues of the population, trying to show that in those places there is as much reflexivity as in any other social class. Also, reading his works has a strange effect of "rebellion" that he always transmitted.

García Márquez is another story. He was a Colombian author dedicated to writing haunting stories of violence and extreme romances mixed with other stories of Colombian national folklore. In this way, he created the "Realismo Mágico". What always beloved of his narrations is his vision of love, love drives his works, even if it is a tragic love that is oppressed by the force of life, even when it does not succeed.

When I read the García Márquez story  I have the strange feeling of being in my house, when I was a little girl my grandmother used to tell me her childhood stories while I combed her hair, now that I'm big  I think there is a lot of "Realismo Mágico" in each story and I wonder how many incredible stories are lost every day because nobody told them.

What I love to read, is what can mix the tragic, the romantic and the fun, everything that can show the ridiculous life, as it is. One of my favorite stories is by García Márquez: " La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada", for my Eréndira represents the innocence and repressed desire of the human being to be free, forced to redeem himself from sins he han not committed ...

I am currently reading "El retrato de Dorian Gray" by Wilde and it is completely recommendable, even if someone wants you can ask me for the book once I finish it.