Author: Guadalupe Nettel
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Inspired by the author’s own childhood, this is the story of a girl with a birth defect of the eye. Her life during the seventies is heavily influenced by her scant vision, but also by the dominant ideology of the time: her parent’s open marriage, progressive schools, hippie communes, sexual liberation and everything that came with it. Written in the style of a soliloquy from a psychoanalyst’s divan, the narrator makes the reader a participant in her most intimate memories. With this novel Guadalupe Nettel confirms what critics have been saying since her debut: that she is one of the greatest revelations of the Spanish language in the last decade. / Inspirada en la infancia de la autora, El cuerpo en que nací es la historia de una niña con un defecto de nacimiento en un ojo. Su vida, durante los años setenta, se ve influida por su escasa visión, pero también por la ideología dominante en esa época: el matrimonio abierto de sus padres, las escuelas activas, las comunas hippies, la libertad sexual, y su correlato. Las diferencias físicas y psicológicas que la distinguen hacen que la protagonista se identifique con los seres que viven al margen de las modas y de las convenciones sociales. Escrita a modo de soliloquio en el diván de un psicoanalista, la narradora nos hace partícipes de sus recuerdos más íntimos y de las interpretaciones que hace de su propia vida. Se trata de una historia llena de sentido del humor pero también de realismo, en la que el mundo infantil se presenta mucho más ominoso de lo que parece a simple vista. Una novela de iniciación a la vida y a la literatura, un bildungsroman situado entre América Latina y Europa en sus facetas menos obvias.
Series: Narrativas hispánicas
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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