Stroll through a library (usually one of the huge FNAC Montparnasse) is, for me, almost a necessity: browse, read the 4th of coverage, the smell of paper ...) -
I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to remind myself what could persuade me to buy this book: the family name with Carlos Fuentes? the cover illustration? Whatever!
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hard to describe this beautiful book (pictorial style) where time (present, past), places (Mexico City, Paris) are mixed with happiness ...
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As often in the English-American literature characters bewildered, a little quirky, often funny, always engaging ...
The narrator tries in vain to escape his past, his passion for Alberto, his fantasy lover, who happens to him when to stop drinking will come off ...
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TWO EXCERPTS :
"It is rare that the dead take their leave. Not that we know, they go without saying goodbye, a little sly, like the guests at a party that suddenly remember an important appointment and escape through a back door. Time passes before we felt their absence: they gradually become invisible and disappeared, hide among the furniture, we are accustomed to the presence vague, intermittent, barely noticeable. That may be their form of courtesy. "
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Diego Rivera - Vendedora flores (detail)
"I saw Ignacio with his bouquet of flowers and smile. The rest of the guests disappeared in one fell swoop as the corps de ballet who vanished in the dark while the spotlight on the dancer. It was not love: it was simply a world that spoke to me. A magical circle, when one enters, things hitherto immobile, take life and meaning. "
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Wilma Fuentes was born in Mexico in 1949, journalist and novelist,
Lives Paris since 1975, corresponding to various Mexican media
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She edits "The bus from Mexico City" (1995), The Castles in Hell "(2008).
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