Overview
Un relato autobiográfico intenso e inolvidable, con los referentes y las claves de la escritura de Camila Sosa, el nuevo huracán literario latinoamericano.
Con rabia y poesía, este es el relato descarnado de la propia vida de Camila Sosa Villada, de sus orígenes, de su dolorosa infancia, un cuerpo clandestino de mujer azotado por la furia alcohólica de su padre, de la vivencia como travesti que conoce la prostitución, pero también el éxito en el teatro, y de este el ejercicio de la escritura, que no puede ser sino radical, intensa, en busca de una imposible reparación:
«Escribo para que una historia se sepa. La historia de mi travestismo, de mi familia, de mi tristeza en la niñez, de toda esa tristeza prematura que fue mi familia, el alcoholismo de mi papá, las carencias de mi mamá. Las mudanzas que me apartaban para siempre de los amigos, del clima de mis habitaciones, de la costumbre de los patios, de la seguridad de un escondite. Escribo para poder decir las imágenes que poblaron mi infancia. También para decir la lucha de mi familia en contra de la pobreza, una pelea que nos devastó y nos enfermó de rencores y desamor e indiferencia, todos contra todos.»
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An intense and unforgettable autobiographical account, offering the influences and keys to Camila Sosa's writing, the new literary phenomenon of Latin America.
Filled with rage and poetry, this is the unflinching story of Camila Sosa Villada's own life, her origins, and her painful childhood, a hidden female identity battered by her father's alcoholic fury; of her experience as a travesti who encounters prostitution but also success in the theater, and from there the practice of writing, which can only be radical and intense, in search of an impossible form of healing:
“I write so that a story may be known. The story of my travestismo, of my family, of my childhood sadness, of all that premature sadness that was my family, my father's alcoholism, my mother's hardships. The moves that forever separated me from friends, from the atmosphere of my rooms, from the familiarity of courtyards, from the safety of a hiding place. I write to give voice to the images that filled my childhood. I also write about my family's struggle against poverty, a battle that devastated us and left us filled with resentment, heartbreak, and indifference, all against all.”
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