Still Born: Guadalupe Nettel

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Rosie Flanagan: To me, Still Born is a deeply feminist book, one that affirms female choice and challenges patriarchal ideas of motherhood and maternal instinct. Was this your intention? Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilised, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. Un genitore si nutre di piccole e grandi ricompense emotive ed ogni giorno si rigioca tutto e come un lancio di dadi. Revista de la Universidad de México". Revista de la Universidad de México . Retrieved August 4, 2019.

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Son las historias de tres mujeres que se van entrecruzando: la que quiere ser madre y finalmente no sale como pensaba, la que no quiere ser madre y se liga las trompas, la que sí es madre pero vive atormentada. todas relatadas de una manera directa, sin vueltas y sin golpes bajos, inclusive cuando hay temas dolorosos de los que hablar. Guadalupe Nettel ci immerge in questa atmosfera di desiderio e di attesa, dolore e speranza, allargando lo sguardo e poi stringendolo su un personaggio o un particolare. Riflettendo e lasciando spazi aperti alla riflessione individuale. Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction. Many demands weigh on mothers. They are always compared to an unattainable stereotype, one that has made women feel inadequate. Not to mention those who decide to remain childless, who are rarely represented in literature up to now. To me, Still Born is a novel which affirms female choices and which challenges patriarchal ideas of motherhood and maternal instinct.Nettel is free. She has succeeded in creating an audacious narrative style all her own, a singular and fearless way of being in the world. An essential voice of the new Latin American literature.’ Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico and grew up between Mexico and France. She is the author of the international award winning novels El huésped [The Guest] (2006), The Body Where I Was Born (2011), After the Winter (2014, Herralde Novel Prize) and Still Born (2020) and three collections of short stories, all published by Anagrama, the most prestigious of all Spanish-language publishing houses. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has appeared in publications such as Granta, The White Review, El País, the New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa. She currently lives in Mexico City where she’s the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.

‘Still Born,’ by Guadalupe Nettel, complicates the idea of

In Mexico, we have the brutal saying: “A tu mujer, como a tu escopeta, mantenla cargada y detrás de la puerta” which translates to: “Keep your women the way you keep your shotguns: loaded and behind the door.” I like to think that reading this book will make readers – whether male or female – question some of the practices we now take for granted as natural and unalterable, that women might broaden their perspectives on motherhood and be able to decide better what to do with their lives.I know this book has been out in the UK for a little while now, but it’s set to come out here in August - which is why I was happy to be able to snag an ARC from Bloomsbury Publishing. She has published three English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press: Natural Histories (2014), [8] The Body Where I was Born (2015)., [9] and Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories (2020). The Body Where I Was Born was recognized on the Three Percent Best Translated Book Longlist and as a Neustadt International Prize for Literature Finalist.