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Not everything is in our hands

  • Fly environment:: Uxue Alberdi Susa, 2013

Leaving behind the chairs – a chair in the snow (2007) and the game of chairs (2009) – and Uxue Alberdi has brought the flies to us in his third book. On the first bench, we felt cold with Swedish narratives, and on the second, we felt affectionate by the friends who sent us the memories of the war. The third book, entitled Euli-giro, is a compilation of stories with that bustling and restless atmosphere from start to finish. This writer teaches us that she starts to test different styles, a creator who is not afraid of change or of trying new things.

Along with the title, the image of the cover conveys a strange emotion: a young woman looks at us face to face, but we cannot see her face, as she is hidden behind the collection of dead flowers she offers us.

Not everything is in our hands, in the first narrative the flies appear giving the tone to the book, the characters who are in a hamlet look for something and the flies will prevent them from achieving their goal. From the town of Lunch they go to the town with the family of Añes and Tru “to celebrate that the ghost of the ultrasound has a penis.” The third deer came, the protagonist will serve as a servant to care for Mrs. Klara, who is about to die. In the text, on a slow fire, we will find a housewife answering the questions of the police in the interrogation about her husband's suicide. Can I help you something? In the story Marta Albéniz is going to work at his buffet and those who are there don't know him.

In the narrative Dystopias literarias, the young writers Martina and Joana are at the mercy of the editor Benoit. In the stenopeic chamber two people will meet in one house and will deal with the trace that until then has had (and has not had) one in the life of the other. A sleeping couple welcomes the mother of one of them at home and they witness a metamorphosis in a very unconscious way. It is the prelude that puts an end to this collection, although the title speaks of the principle. There is Sara Maingu, one of the great chelists in history, and they will propose to go back to the stage with Leonard's left hand, the then promise of cheer.

The narratives show us the folds of everyday life, revealing the absurd and dark part of reality, and the concern for the uncertainty of everyday life through situations and ellipses. It claims the influence of ourselves and our environment and the inability to control everything, because in the Moscow environment of life everything is not in our hands.


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