Calla!
I have read the first five pages of the book, which make up chapter 0. The first five pages excluded from the first part and the second. I've closed the book. No to anyone, I've read the title of the cover again. And I felt weight in my body as if I had been told a secret. Calla, doesn't tell anyone. That's the phrase that his cousin Mikel tells Lider after he committed sexual abuse. That is the pact between the abuser, the victim and the reader: silence.
This triangle is also reinforced by the dance of narrative voices. Chapter 0 tells the third omniscient person and appears repeatedly throughout the book. It gives us a complete overview and tells us what they feel, dream, do, err (no) the characters: “Leadership is awakened every time it is played in secret.”
At the beginning of the book, they interspersed with another voice. With the first singular person. In this case, Lider's story is weighty. This voice gives proximity to the story and intensely transmits the anxiety, anxiety, and fatigue of the protagonist. On page 36, where it says: “The first real cracker was later. When I was about fifteen years old, lucky.”
From the third chapter comes the third narrative voice, which has not appeared until then. After a great craquat in which the protagonist lives, the second singular person comes into play. And chapter zero reinforces the pact between abuse, victim and reader. This voice gives the text a distance and a reflection. Because it seems that Lider speaks to himself. “You hate Lide, your ttipita, for being so curious. Why not?" (page 52). It also serves to challenge the reader. And I would say that the use of this voice also keeps the universality of silence underlined in the story.
The book denounces the consequence that sexual abuse and silence occurs in the protagonist's environment, and therefore the protection of aggressions. In the 134 pages of pain, injury and discomfort we will swim in the feelings of the protagonist. I was very pleased to see that the discourse created in recent years by the feminist movement and the #MeToo movement is also being worked on in Basque literature. And, despite being very different, he reminded me of Alaine Agirre's white nightgown.
This is the second novel by Maddi Ane Txoperena. Original, legible, rich and necessary.
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