The Woman Destroyed (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Es preferible no desvelar mucho más y que cada lector los descubra por sí mismo, basta con decir que estos relatos ofrecen tres de las voces más auténticas y creíbles que he leído jamás. This ersatz-Fitzgerald mix of moralizing and mirror-looking (Jay McInerney shook and poured the shaker first) is very 80's—and in Tartt's strenuous version already seems dated, formulaic. No obstante, opino que es precisamente con esta clase de vidas con las que nos haremos preguntas, cuestiones que no nos atrevíamos a plantear o que simplemente no habían pasado por nuestras cabezas.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself – exactly oneself and no one else – and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else. La mujer rota" contiene tres relatos breves: La edad de la discreción, Monólogo y, finalmente, La mujer rota.they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. It would be useless to find morals or propose lessons in these stories, no, my intention has been very different. I went to fetch things out of the car: I spread a rug on the ground, cushions, the transistor, and I smoked, listening to Mozart. The parents have not signed the paper that would finally do away with their rights, but there is no question of their taking the child back: they do not want her and from her point of view too it would be the worst possible solution. Although this doesn’t diminish the validity of their arguments in the least, it also means that we can find here only one particular point of view.

A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods. The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success. Think of something else - anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.I feel like writing those words on a piece of paper and leaving it in an obvious place in the hall before I go to bed. Reading such detailed description of one’s emotions can be hard, especially if You are in bad place yourself. The woman gives one scream after another of rage and despair and loneliness, until there is more than enough. I promised her I should move heaven and earth to get her transferred to a Home and she let herself be persuaded to go back to the Centre.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.The stories, while perhaps not ‘realistic’ in the sense that the situations the women are in and the reactions they have are exploded and near hyperbolic, are deliberately provocative. La femme rompue“, The Woman Destroyed, is written by one of the most controversial feminists, Simone de Beauvoir. it's a collection of three stories about women past youth who, in short, are having lives they thought were settled suddenly cleaved into before and after. Through the son’s career change, the failure of her recent publication, and her husband’s complacency in the face of old age, the protagonist undergoes a manic episode of existential dread where she finds herself in limbo, unsure whether she occupies the position of old and washed out or young enough to be of use to society. De Beauvoir plays with narrative form: a 1st person narrative, an inner monologue, a diary - and the three pieces build up an image of women and their fragile sense of identity and belonging.