Julia Navarrowho was a journalist and graced the shelves for years with fictional successes such as Scoundrel story also You will not kill I decided to delve into the personal summary of centuries of thought, poetry, narrative or science due to women from all over the world, since ancient times. In a style that combines personal passion, or doubt (“Where do I continue now? & rdquor;”), Madrid writer The same goes for the smoke-inhaling Café Gijón that has taken over Deaux Magots or Flore in Madrid (without success), The cafés in Paris where Simone de Beauvoir challenged Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus to the prevailing scent of existentialism, which Go to the cultural bowels of Egypt and Greece To explore what it was like for women there to struggle to be who they were or should be.
The book, over three hundred pages long, is published by Plaza y Janés. your surname, common story. With them, without them, in front of them, It is a summary of their intentions, as it is not about the female account they, Those who leave women aside, though that’s also pretty much what it’s about, because throughout history it traces (centuries of history, in fact) important men of all eras cohabiting with they, but they In many cases it exceeds or equals them, and yet, as in the case of Cleopatra, for example, they are excluded from consideration in the future.
As it is not a book written without sparing sources or epithets, Julia Navarro even recounts the occasions when her knowledge came not only from reading but also from her forays into the places where many of the heroines of her stories lived. She went on these trips with her husband and children. The climate in which writing reaches, even the heroes of distant centuries, gives this boundless prose (neither academic nor political) an atmosphere written to be heard and shared with its amazement: Were all these women there and did they not hear the story?
In some cases, such as companions, women, or lovers of great men in history such as Juan Ramon Jimenez also Raphael AlbertiAside from that story in which Antonio is always above Cleopatra, Navarro is in full to undo the ancient primacy. But the book does not seem made to settle scores, but above all, to put those who, like Las Sensombrero of the generation of ’27, are at the forefront of culture for mere anecdotes. Julia Navarro here gives them the appropriate rating.
The rhythm with which this story (these stories of history) is described seems to be the rhythm of a woman, the author, who decided to lure the contemporary reader (and the reader!) into shouting at them: “Find it out!!!”. The warning is this, which the writer said in the context of her description of the Cleopatra affair: “You know, there are always those who prefer to devalue a woman rather than nullify her intelligence, because if someone rose to the level of Caesar’s glory, this was Cleopatra and rdquor;.
This warning is typical of the book, at various times the author attends with amazement pleading for justice. It is used for cases BeauvoirAnd Hannah ArendtAnd Lou Andreas Salome also Simon Weil, not always because they were ignored, but because they themselves imposed their laws on men who seemed destined to be their superiors in various fields of knowledge or power. Julia Navarro also provides a biography of her readings. In this case, his account of the youthful (and existential) passion he felt upon reading Simone de Beauvoir (second sex, For example).
He went with his cigarette, which he had just brandished, to the Café of Gijón, surveyed the variety of personalities of the time, began to smoke as if he had been to the Café de Flore where Sartre and Beauvoir held power, and concluded his summary. an existential stage after he claimed, with passion and smoke, a turning point in his discoveries. Now, in the book, there’s a very detailed reflection on Simone’s decision to make public the letters she exchanged with her very famous lover (and what that meant at the time).
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As in her novels (and in the journalism she has practiced since she was a girl), Navarro filled this book with characters who undress to give them the simplicity with which she reads it. Maria ZambranoAnd Emily DickinsonAnd Rosalia de CastroAnd Gabriela MistralAnd Anna Akhmatova or lady Emilia Bardot Bazin Clarify the times that would go on later in the cases Josephine AldecoAnd Anna Maria diedAnd Carmen Martin Gate also Carmen Laforet. In that human geography which it tells as if to tell the future, there is no shortage of human beings, such as Virginia Wolfwho lived in love, uncertainty or madness, and now here at Shared history Vibrant as feelings that Julia Navarro brings together to present, in my opinion, perhaps the most sincere and impressive text, on par with the one dedicated to the (later forgotten) lover of Juan Ramón Jimenez, Daisy Jill Rosetteor Alberti’s wife, Maria Teresa Leona victim of the ‘disloyalty’ of her husband, who abandoned her when she was already living with her mind in an unstable state.
There is a salutation (l Federica Montsenyl Sophia Casanoval Maria Legragato her journalist friend Pilar Cernudato the aforementioned Oriana Fallaci), for today’s philosophers, such as Emilio Ledo also Jose Antonio Marinawhich together give an idea of the passion for the justice of history, an inevitable mixture of the distant past and the frenzied present, felt by this woman who suddenly felt, leaving aside the novels occupied by the desire to make writing an act of multiple justice, without leaving aside, this notorious, delight Narrating their knowledge and discoveries, as if they were still tempted to go to Gijón’s café to sniff tobacco as goody.
