Still Born: Guadalupe Nettel

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Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties - and neither has built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilised, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. It is also a testament to female friendship. At one point Laura says, “There are beings without whom we simply cannot conceive ourselves in this world. Alina was one of these for me. If she disappeared, a part of me will go with her.” Despite their differing choices and opinions, these women stand by each other and the love between them is evident. “The more we love a person, the more fragile and insecure we feel because of them.” An unflinching, compassionate meditation on mothers, daughters and sisters – both blood-related and chosen – Still Born stirred me and consoled me, renewing my faith in the power of women’s communities. Guadalupe Nettel has managed the impossible task of writing a work of both exacting honesty and immense tenderness, on one of the most delicate topics.’ In the beginning, my intention was to write the story of my friend and her little daughter, which I’ve found incredibly inspiring, both terrible and beautiful at the same time. Every day, children are born with neurological conditions that set them apart from others. Their families often take these situations as misfortunes that will end forever the life they had and turn it into hell. I wanted to show, through the story of this friend of mine, that it is possible to transform this painful experience into a meaningful one. Un genitore si nutre di piccole e grandi ricompense emotive ed ogni giorno si rigioca tutto e come un lancio di dadi.

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Nettel is known for her psychologically complex characters. Discuss the protagonist’s emotional journey and the ways in which she navigates her internal struggles in the novel. Heart-gripping, real, and hugely thought-provoking, I find myself still staring into space trying to absorb the unexpected emotional whirlwinds that fall upon these women. En lo personal , desearía que al leerla, nos volviéramos más empáticas y logremos respetar cualquier decisión personal , preferencias e ideologías de otras mujeres.Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature…. I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature.’ No mother knows how long her children will live. There is even an expression that says that children are merely loaned to us, and that the length of this loan can last from a few hours to several decades.

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Me da muchísimo gusto ver que hay muchos hombres que la leen y tienen comentarios y opiniones muy interesantes. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. Guadalupe Nettel: "La ceguera determina mucho lo que escribo" ". Diario Correo (in Spanish). 26 June 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 January 2021. Le scelte sono nate dai miei solito approfondimenti, dai consigli di chi mi fido, di qualche lista. Ho imparato a tornare al vecchio stile e usare meno i social, anche se, non lo nego certo, per star dietro alle nuove uscite sono impareggiabili. E’ davvero instillato nelle figlie femmine da piccole secondo un programma stabilito a preservare la razza umana?Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilised, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother.

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When interviewed by The Booker Prizes, Nettel detailed how Still Born was based on the story of a friend and her daughter: ‘Every day, children are born with neurological conditions that set them apart from others. Their families often take these situations as misfortunes that will end forever the life they had and turn it into hell. I wanted to show, through the story of this friend of mine, that it is possible to transform this painful experience into a meaningful one.’ Do you think the author succeeded here? Did you find beauty in Alina’s experience when her daughter Inés was born with micro lissencephaly? Did it feel true to life? Asimismo, el estilo narrativo es una arma de doble filo: como ya mencioné, es una novela que se lee rápido y mantiene la atención del lector pero, al mismo tiempo, el lenguaje me pareció un tanto simplón y en momentos, artificial.I sentimenti sono complessi, mai scontati; la vita è quell’intreccio di caso e destino che ospita la meraviglia. Perché “l’amore arriva nei modi più inattesi, e tutto può cambiare da un momento all’altro. In bene e in male.” Maternal ambivalence is a key theme of Still Born and Nettel explores a range of nuanced perspectives and evolving emotions through her portrayal of the two women. Does this feel unusual, or even timely? If so, it begs the question - why has Still Born been written now?