Hotel California and other songs
A collection of texts written in three cities during 2018
Madrid/Istanbul/Sandiego
In it, the writer tells about the scenes she experienced in the three cities, the feelings she experienced, and the nostalgia she felt while on those short trips.
In Madrid, she had the pleasure of learning about Spanish civilization and some Islamic monuments. In Istanbul, she enjoyed sitting in cafes and simple alleys, and in Sandiego, she experienced the diversity of scenes, foods, and music.
Until that meeting:
Oh this death that lives so powerfully..
How did it start with you? He took the basis and foundation
Security and reassurance...the soul and the breath...
He did not know that after you I became forgotten on the road
Known as the nobody... far from me...
I can't hear my voice anymore. I'm the address whose messages don't reach me.
How did you involuntarily become a stranger?
I am not tempted by the introduction and I am not bothered by staying in the middle
Better stability in the back.
The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.
