Interested
Because once a literary tour begins, here we have uncovered the first results of Hasier Etxeberria, Anjel Lertxundi, Aingeru Epaltza – to quote three long-standing literary writers. The one by Ramón Saizarbitoria is a short novel that starts from the novel by Ramón Saizarbitoria Daily, 50 years this year in 1969. And we should celebrate it already. Not only because he synchronized the clock of the Basque novel with the literary currents of the time, but also because today – in general, 50 years – it offers us a totally fresh reading.
In other words, it has not lost any news. For example, abortion, of course, the central issue, would seem to be overcome, but remember the case of Navarre, which is already normalizing the day before yesterday. Migration, here present, if you want in the background, but making the corrupt people who are living half a century later appear: “We are getting more and more immigrants and people are not happy. They say it's an invasion." Besides the themes, for example, the way of counting, two different lines, one corresponding to the protagonist: Gisèle Sergier, twenty-two years old, laughing, blue eyes, long and thin; “he is of another kind”, “he always knows how to do what is needed”. We will know the struggle between getting pregnant and having an abortion. And the other line, the monologue, which apparently has nothing to do with the girl's story, but has, because ideas come in and out, for example, what catches the spirit of the novel: “I prefer a thousand times the risk of the rebellion of these young people now than the sterility of those of our time.”
At the disposal of readers, it features the pocket edition of the editorial Erein 2007, which includes an illustrative prologue written by Saizarbitoria himself, which shows the panorama of the time in which the novel emerged. And some changes that the author has introduced here and there, but taking into account that “if someone who had already read it before took the work of rereading this version, he would not realize the changes I have made.”
The novel Gisèle continues, with encouragement, with a recovery of lost confidence. To live hopefully in the face of tomorrow's life. Because life begins every day. Because the Basque literature is also beginning to interest once.
Under the asphalt, the flower
Text: Monica Rodriguez
Illustrations: Rocío Araya translation
of: Itziar Ulcerati
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