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"Unfaithful. Stories of transgression "by Joyce Carol Oates (2)

continue with the second installment of our latest signing guest, Laura Pilar Mateo, which has given us a splendid critique of this book of stories .

This photograph, like the cover of Infidel is Nan Goldin

Of all the tales of the volume, (the election has been really difficult), to comment briefly on the bottom two address the same issue: domestic violence and impunity in our society. Both are told by a narrator witness whose involvement in the incident is an emotional event, and rational aesthetics in the other. The first Infidel, the book's title, and second, The school girlfriend, is one of the stories end.

In Infidel, the impeccable past an old man, a strict Lutheran whose wife abandoned by a lover, it suddenly becomes a swamp that hides more of a shameful secret. All the trauma of leaving family lived in the reveal, many years later, as a misfortune for the granddaughter, who will know and will be silent, so he never knew his mother.

It is precisely the granddaughter (the innocent generation, or perhaps not) that tells the story, as the missing woman (his grandmother) was expelled from the family forever and deprived of the ability to tell their story. This narrator, emotionally involved with the story that counts, but you have not experienced directly, gives us a multifaceted view of the facts that the reader must interpret. His words have the ability to combine the official version, that is, the grandfather of the deceased, his two daughters, his mother resentful and frightened by a drop that left them in hostile territory, and his own, the of a third generation that translates stories from another perspective his mother and aunt to complete a sinister history.

The ongoing dialogue the two sisters, both girls and adults, plans full of gaps along the whole story and clearly significant for the waiver. Each ritual and quietly destroys the words just spoken to the other, silencing and the fear that their clumsy utterances could pose at different times that they have to share.

In my view, in this tale of female figures representing each image of women in our culture. One is the primordial mother, the first object of desire, as powerful as the father of her daughters. The other, girls who embrace the only alternative destination alone, a sacrifice that will purify and stronger. Embodiment together endow the typical conceptions of femininity, truncated affection, tenderness, abandonment, the need for protection, the renunciation of love to prevent damage that may result, positions that do not serve to finally know the truth or to reconcile with his life.

The other story, The school sweetheart, freezes the blood. A writer, unpunished for more than 40 years of murder, dare to confess in public after the event barricaded a fictional story written by him, and that, as in a mirror game valleinclanesco turns out to be an aesthetic product of the first order . The circumstantial narrator of the story, which we know nothing except the blind admiration professed by the writer, stays on the situation in a kind of identification until the engine explodes in hands stunned and wondering what to do.

Across the chaotic feelings and suffering psychotic and masterfully narrates the protagonist himself, highlight the alienation in the ideal image of women, (the image we have of body is more powerful than the body itself), the thrill of seduction and guilt, and frustration that unleashes the power of desire, a power that she (the victim) has on he (the executioner) and against which he can not rebel or released. The prospect of illusions, including the paranoid fantasy of the protagonist, only be resolved with the mutilation of female flesh that imprisons the poor mortal torment that goes beyond reason and faith.

Thus, we propose an archetypal story trapped in a void where the psychological reality of autism is imposed on the physical reality. It will merge two worlds, the inner mind and the outside of the actual events, which have their correspondence in the fantasies of seduction and fetishism and sexual consummation associated with violence and female passivity. In this regard, another aspect to this story highlights is the strength of male narcissism and collusion with it, translated into the acquiescence or the reluctance of men, to certain crimes such as rape or violence against women.

Prodigiosa: Joyce Carol Oates . A book highly recommended to be digested slowly.

Laura Pilar Mateo, writer and expert on coeducation.