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Martina is the same Vera, but Vera is not the same Martina

  • Itxaso Martin Zapirain::Ni, Vera Elkar, 2012

04 October 2012
In his first novel, Itsaso Martin wanted to round out several themes with a great play of voices, in a literary text composed of two well parts diferenciadas.Dos characters: Martina and Vera. Martina fulfills the first part of the book. Martina is a young woman who is assaulted by madness, or who lives in a state of anxiety, and who lives in fear. In the second, Vera, the great-grandmother of Martina crazy in the 1940s, introduced into the psychiatric mother of many children. Two very different times, in both cases women in enclosed spaces, in both cases women in extremis.La intention of Itsaso Martin has been to unite the two

parties through the games of voices that have been developed so far. In the first episode, the voice of an anonymous narrator who speaks in the second person, and Martina herself appears in her writings in the first person. In the second chapter, Vera's voice, as if it emerged from the bowels of Martina and as if the two characters were one. What happens

is that Martina has to explain what happens to him and has to stage madness. It uses three techniques, all of which are very interesting. First, he writes his strokes and for this he uses a first person and something similar to everyday life. Secondly, it makes a very paranoid display of a couple of events in the novel. And finally, to get to know her madness, Vera enters the story of her great-grandmother. All three are appealing techniques to see madness in a polyhedral or schizophrenic way.

I found the second game very interesting. Worked on the chapter Insanity. In fact, with an impressive pace, the narrator tells us the same action in three different ways, mixing the facts and making the reader the prisoner of this dizziness. It seems to me that this is where Itsaso Martin meets the reader, because he has been able to express exactly what a situation of confusion can bring to anyone.

So, to conclude, it seemed to me a very interesting novel, worthy of two novels, because I would stay with the first part and with the technique I have just mentioned. And it seems to me that that alone could form a pretty interesting story. I let him make another beautiful novel by Vera, historic if you will. Madness, diagnosis, history have set in motion many things and many voices to bend in so few pages. Too much for short pastures, but very interesting.

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