Author: Ania Kubicek (M. Covadonga Mendoza)
SYNOPSIS
After four months in New York by teaching creative writing University, Sigrid Halvorsen, author of romance novels, which considers itself a Nietzschean superwoman, returns to his home in Toulouse, where he discovers that his brother, with whom he lives, has married a girl millionaire. Shocked by the fact, is by all means to undo the wedding and have him return home, but in between meets François, a timid professor at the University of Le Mirail, which is love. The trouble is that he only wants intellectual friendship ... and she wants something else ...
Sigrid François and can not be more different: he is apathetic, has no social life, believes in God, is chaste ... she is passionate, sociable Atheist and chastity is not doing anything ... But both have something in common: they worship a god known ...
OPINION Carolina Marquez Rojas
do not know where First, the truth. There are so many things I want to say and accumulated many ideas in my head about this novel I have to order them before you start. And I have drawn many conclusions from this story, and I was so absorbed that I have omitted to take notes, something I usually do those engaged in review. I do not always, sometimes I get carried away because taking notes bothers me if I'm enjoying the novel, and yet I find it more difficult to do if I identify with the protagonist and her story alive like mine, well almost mine, enganchadísima to the plot.
This is the story of Sigrid Halvorsen. A woman living by her own rules and beliefs, regardless of a damn what others think, but really suffers from the rejection that their behavior has on the rest of the world. But she must live like this, is what he feels and if it does not come into contradiction with itself. Nietzsechiana is a woman, a superwoman who lives as he wants and also speaks his mind without foreseeing the consequences of their words cause, and because of that people relate to it end up blaming all the ills of the world and of their own. We
ultimately to a very special lady through which we realize that there are different views, different ways of looking at life and live it according to what everyone thinks and feels, is morally right or not, meaning the moral right that society imposes as a role model in a particular historical time, respecting the taboos, without transgressing social norms or religious beliefs, not committing acts "incompatible with civilization " as the author writes.
The synopsis does not do justice to the novel because the story is far more complex than that suggests. Told through the various main characters gives us much more than the only way to live the life of Sigrid. Since everyone is different, it's just knowing how to think and how other actors involved on the wires that are vital weaving between them and how each of the decisions they make directly or indirectly affect the lives of others. Life is very complicated and also we make ourselves even more complicated and allow other people to also complicate us, which we did not ever attain happiness, not absolute, because there is no such concept, but we can not enjoy of those happy moments that make our lives meaningful. Sigrid has a vastly larger superego, is intelligent, witty, fun, very good writer of "high literature" but makes his living writing romance novels, and also maintains an incestuous relationship with his brother Twin facing the moral hypocrisy of the members of his family and his friends, who hide their own secrets and live according to their own morality. The difference between Sigrid and the rest of the characters is that she does not hide his lifestyle, or what he thinks, and that makes it free, but also left exposed to the world of double standards: what you do behind closed doors in okay, but nobody knows. Suffering, then, is inevitable and this superwoman is experienced through a manic-depressive psychosis withdrawing it altogether. But is willing to fight and be happy ... his way.
I have greatly enjoyed the story of Sigrid: I want to be a superwoman, live as I want and say what I want. But that costs and have to be very brave to take that route. The truth is that the story of the blond Germanic beast "made me think a lot about double standards and hypocrisy rampant in close proximity to us, friends, neighbors, relatives or colleagues. All used to lie about ourselves and what we think and that's not bad, it is not always advisable to say what one thinks, just stop being honest with our conscience and that also causes suffering.
But the novel is not as sad as it may seem, on the contrary. Ania Kubicek-M. Covadonga Mendoza delight in social criticism with humor Ironically, acidic and very funny: the part where Sigrid imagine his version of Wagner's opera "The Valkyries" or one in which openly criticize romance novels have no waste. Sigrid has a humor and "bully" who is so clever and uses the double meaning, but could irritate but could not stop laughing. Kubicek-Mendoza dares to criticize anything, not just the performance and character of our society, but covers everything you can throw a stone: music, philosophy, writing, writers, all with respect and good humor, which the author owns and uses more than capable of rip smiles on all 426 pages in which the story unfolds, whether at a wedding or a funeral.
This unconventional romantic comedy drama (a subtitle very successful, though I preferred for her to invent a genre: romance novel bipolar) is highly recommended because the story is complex and real as life itself with characters tender, sensitive and manipulators : intervention tremendous Elizabeth McPherson, Liber Hespericus heroin, another author's story. Reading it will make you think, suffer a little, but mostly to see life through different eyes and perhaps be more tolerant. Many women-and some men feel identified.
Word
superwoman.
ROJAS CAROLINA MARQUEZ
can download the novel for free here: Web MCMendoza
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