Overview
En Crónicas del desamor se reúnen las tres novelas que han convertido a Elena Ferrante en una de las voces de más prestigio de la literatura italiana contemporánea.Las tres piezas tienen como protagonista a una mujer, y las tres indagan en el dolor femenino con mano firme, sin concesiones al sentimentalismo. El amor molesto, la primera de las piezas, narra la relación de Delia con su madre Amelia. Mi madre se ahogó la noche del 23 de mayo, el día de mi cumpleaños#escribe la narradora en la primera página, y de ahí en adelante todo será descubrir quién era realmente Amelia.La segunda pieza, titulada Los días del abandono, cuenta la historia de una mujer joven, madre de dos hijos, que de repente es abandonada por su hombre y tiene que enfrentarse a un nuevo modode vivir. Sola en Turín, la mujer cae en una espiral de dolor que la paraliza, y Ferrante consigue que sintamos esa angustia de una manera casi corpórea: sus gestos, sus palabras, todo su cuerpo es la pura expresión de un mal oscuro que va más allá de la traición, como si la tragedia griega se hubiera encarnado en el ánimo de una mujer de hoy. Luego, poco a poco, el resurgir, ese nuevo pacto con la vida que ya se hace desde otras premisas, esa madurez tan celebrada que sella con garbo nuestros errores.Cierra la trilogía La hija oscura, donde encontramos a Leda, una mujer que se cree sola y libre en un pueblecito de playa, pero el encuentro con una familia muy peculiar la obligará a revisar las relaciones que ha mantenido con sus hijas y descubrir cuales son los lazos que las unen. Una y otra vez, una trama en apariencia banal se convierte en un arma en manos de Ferrante. Su modo de contar hace daño y alivia a la vez, y eso quizá porque ahí estamos todos, aunque duela reconocerlo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONChronicles of Heartbreak compiles the three novels that have made Elena Ferrante one of the most prestigious voices in contemporary Italian literature. El amor molesto / An Upset Love, the first installment, narrates the relationship between Delia and her mother Amelia. "My mother drowned the evening of May 23rd, the day of my birthday" is how the first page begins. From then on, the reader sets to find out who Amelia was.
The second volume, Los días del abandon / The Days of Abandonment, tells the story of a young mother of two who is suddenly abandoned by her partner and has to face her new reality. Alone in Turin, she descends into a devastating emptiness; she feels a pain and anguish that Ferrante in able to make her readers feel.
La hija oscura / The Dark Daughter is the last of the trilogy, here we find Leda who feels free in a little beach town, until her chance meeting with a peculiar family forced her to analize the relationship she's had with her daughters and find out what are the ties that bind them. Once again, what would seem to be a very stale and unoriginal theme, becomes a weapon in the hands of Ferrante.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONChronicles of Heartbreak compiles the three novels that have made Elena Ferrante one of the most prestigious voices in contemporary Italian literature. El amor molesto / An Upset Love, the first installment, narrates the relationship between Delia and her mother Amelia. "My mother drowned the evening of May 23rd, the day of my birthday" is how the first page begins. From then on, the reader sets to find out who Amelia was.
The second volume, Los días del abandon / The Days of Abandonment, tells the story of a young mother of two who is suddenly abandoned by her partner and has to face her new reality. Alone in Turin, she descends into a devastating emptiness; she feels a pain and anguish that Ferrante in able to make her readers feel.
La hija oscura / The Dark Daughter is the last of the trilogy, here we find Leda who feels free in a little beach town, until her chance meeting with a peculiar family forced her to analize the relationship she's had with her daughters and find out what are the ties that bind them. Once again, what would seem to be a very stale and unoriginal theme, becomes a weapon in the hands of Ferrante.
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