Alejandra Laurencich: The protagonist of “Luzbel” more than bad or harmful, is a poor woman who seeks to please, fill her life with Facebook likes and with her contacts on the networks. In the opposite way, the woman from “The least expected day” looks mature, intelligent, and suddenly she faces the devaluation of her husband and her best friend compared to another woman, and thinks, as a provocation, to see what happens if I also dress like a kitten. It is not all black and white but there are many nuances between women and men. The least expected day everything falls apart and we find ourselves facing a reality that is not what we expected. It could be that these tales told by a man would make people say today why he talks about women like that. In my stories, although the protagonists do not do politically correct things today, they are looked at with compassion and even tenderness because the reader feels identification. That has nothing to do with the fact that women are like this or that, but with how the human being is.
Q.: The story “Let’s talk about it” could be described as Peronist…
TO THE: More than taking a position, this story shows that a large majority of Argentines are crossed by Peronism, whether we have a lot, little or nothing to do with that movement, we know that it is there and that it is a reality. The protagonist says that it is something as Argentine as mate or saving in dollars. I showed a woman who has nothing to do with Peronism, and that her family is divided by him, and that she has to try to tell an English boy what she is and what Peronism means.
P.: In the twelve stories about women, many are worried, anxious and even, in one case, clearly paranoid.
TO THE: They have the uncertainty along with the impetus that leads them to do things that, for others, could be disastrous. Taking risks always implies that uncertainty. In the stories I take those moments in which either something was done that could change our lives or the inner experience in which insecurities and fears appear is discovered. I am interested in those inner worlds that are not disclosed and are in everyone, those hells of ours that accompany us daily. In “Deserved” a screenwriter goes to write to an idyllic place, a wonderful estate by the sea of the film’s producer, but she does not go alone, she goes with the burden of her mother’s mandates, who has always undervalued her, more their own persecutions. The idyllic becomes terrifying.
Q.: For a long time you directed a literary magazine, in difficult times for magazines, and even more so for literary ones, what remained of that experience?
TO THE: It gave me close knowledge of the number of literary movements that have taken place in the last decade, many new authors, and everything that appeared as an editorial possibility for the narrator, that which is made visible, for example, at the fair of independent publishers that is already more than a decade old. I sought to show the kitchen of the task of writing as well as to give rise to new voices that had literary height, to give pages to a world that was opening up.
Q.: Now, what are you up to?
TO THE: About to release a new novel, “The Imperfect Labyrinth of Love”, a title I took from a poem by the Cordovan writer Alejandro Schmidt. A love story, wild, disturbed, which is the continuation of “Get out of me”, a novel that was recently reissued.
Source: Ambito
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