Fireflies Ana Maria Matute
Editorial backlist
1st edition, November 2010
Genre: Novel
288 pages
ISBN: 9788408094357
Not because Ana Maria Matute has won the Cervantes prize going to say the following, but will probably be none I was branded as exaggerated: Fireflies is, for me, one of the best novels about the Civil War in Spain have been published so far (and it has rained a lot). Originally appeared in 1955, now the publisher's backlist recovered for the benefit of readers and English literature (and who went out of print since 1993). Fireflies
focuses on one of the favorite topics of Matute: loss of innocence and the emergence of young adults in a world threatened by extreme circumstances, such as the Civil War. This time the protagonists are two young brothers, Sol and Edward, just finishing school, see how their world is coming down facilities. The novel, which takes place in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bis entirely consistent with the chronology of events that took place between 1936 and 1939 (and stays away from any indoctrination) as it relates how a family of upper-middle class suffers the wilderness, first one and then another. Fireflies
, title referred small creatures that seem to wander disoriented, revolves mainly around the Sun, a shy girl, without many friends, who suddenly has to behave as a strong woman. The Sun reminds us, inevitably (and as noted in the preface Esther Tusquets), the Ana Maria Matute itself: the author, the war took, with eleven years, to face a reality he did not know: it went from games children know that the man could kill. "The simulation of a comfortable life, which she said in an interview that of the Magi, changed, life was something else." That transition is not in the novel presents a clear explicit form, but rather allusive.
As we progress in reading, the pain and loss are more present in the novel, but that does not mean that the author go to the easy, but it is thanks to an exuberant prose, the reader is left bring the complex world of each of these characters. Ana Maria Matute is not limited to the description of scenes, but the built thanks to the symbolism that gives each of the situations we read. Cervantes has not been what has made me reconnect with the best Matute, but these Fireflies , returning to the scene to remind us of the value that has always been literature. Awesome.
focuses on one of the favorite topics of Matute: loss of innocence and the emergence of young adults in a world threatened by extreme circumstances, such as the Civil War. This time the protagonists are two young brothers, Sol and Edward, just finishing school, see how their world is coming down facilities. The novel, which takes place in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bis entirely consistent with the chronology of events that took place between 1936 and 1939 (and stays away from any indoctrination) as it relates how a family of upper-middle class suffers the wilderness, first one and then another. Fireflies
, title referred small creatures that seem to wander disoriented, revolves mainly around the Sun, a shy girl, without many friends, who suddenly has to behave as a strong woman. The Sun reminds us, inevitably (and as noted in the preface Esther Tusquets), the Ana Maria Matute itself: the author, the war took, with eleven years, to face a reality he did not know: it went from games children know that the man could kill. "The simulation of a comfortable life, which she said in an interview that of the Magi, changed, life was something else." That transition is not in the novel presents a clear explicit form, but rather allusive.
As we progress in reading, the pain and loss are more present in the novel, but that does not mean that the author go to the easy, but it is thanks to an exuberant prose, the reader is left bring the complex world of each of these characters. Ana Maria Matute is not limited to the description of scenes, but the built thanks to the symbolism that gives each of the situations we read. Cervantes has not been what has made me reconnect with the best Matute, but these Fireflies , returning to the scene to remind us of the value that has always been literature. Awesome.
