BEATRIZ GUIDO-WORK-READINGS – TELAM Agency
The researchers and teachers Sylvia Saítta and Alejandra Laera, the manager José Miguel Onaindia and the filmmaker and researcher Diego Sabanés recommend reading for those who are not familiar with Beatriz Guido’s work: what work to start with and why.
“I really like that kind of trilogy with the protagonists of the novels ‘La casa del ángel’ and ‘La caida’ and the story of ‘The hand in the trap’. I like them because it appears there, rarefying the emergence of that new subjectivity, the ominous… And that happens, I think, because the ominous is the desire itself, the expression of that desire, its manifestation not only as an internal sensation or external curiosity, but as a bodily, material, or on that threshold that is the skin. They are stories that one begins to read and cannot abandon: we want to know what happens to those adolescents, those young women who want to lead their own lives, fulfill their fantasies, live their desires… will they be able to, will they be encouraged, will they leave them?” Laera replies.
While Saítta suggests what was her first novel, “La casa del ángel”, because she highlights that “it prefigures a narrative universe in which female subjectivity decentered by masculine commands prevails, the sinister aspects of family daily life that bring the novel closer to to the gothic, and a critical vision of the most traditional class conventions”.
For Onaindia, his great literary work is “Fin de fiesta” which he defines as “a novel that should be part of the canon of our literature. Ricardo Piglia thought so when he chose it for the collection he directed with José Tchercharsky of ‘Clásicos argentinos’. It is a work that has literary discoveries: it alternates the narration in the first person of the male protagonist, the young Adolfo Peña, with the narration in the third person with a solid narrative structure and a fluidity that captivates”.
“It has thematic findings: it gets into the description of conservative caudillismo, in the spurious practices of the politics of the time, in the relations of family and social domination; political findings: it anticipates the trend towards what is now called ‘crack “Gives a vision of Peronism that serves to debate the origin and significance of this political movement. Guido’s literature is a way of investigating the historical truth, valid and valid even to disagree,” he points out.
Sabanés acknowledges that although Guido’s most famous books are “Fin de fiesta” and “El incendio y las vespers”, he recommends “going back to his immediately previous books, ‘La casa del ángel’ and ‘La caída’. Especially ‘La fall’ that explores a territory where realism is mixed with slightly fantastic elements, which bring his work closer to other national authors such as Silvina Ocampo or even Julio Cortázar”.
“For example, there is a chapter where Guido describes two symmetrical houses where the two suitors of the protagonist live, and the way in which one of them always enters through the window and never through the door. That look connects directly with the fantastic River Plate native, that Cortázar spoke about so many times. One of the first to recognize that character of estrangement in the novel was Adolfo Bioy Casares, in a review he wrote for the magazine Sur”, he says.
“At that moment in his work, as also happens in some stories, what is real appears tinged with the sinister; there is something perverse scratching the surface of the everyday. That point in his work seems to me the most interesting. And I think it is precisely that the poetic nucleus that Torre Nilsson knew how to capture so well with his camera, in those first films they made together. And I think that something of that ominous spirit, the ‘disturbing family’, connects the cinema of Lucrecia Martel with those works by Guido”, highlights.
Source: Ambito
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