El desorden de los Héroes

Description

The writer Marguerite Yourcenar wrote that God had loved her through her friends. She devoted her life to literature, not so much as a profession, but as a way of being in the world. Something very similar happens with Sonia Fides, who has spent years and books expanding her voice through an enthusiasm for words and a hunger for life. This Disorder of Heroes that she now presents confirms the need readers had for a universe like hers, one that points directly to emotion and its agonies.

“I am an older woman and I can disobey God as many times as I want,” says the protagonist of this story. And that disobedience takes us through the chiaroscuro of human beings and through all the vicissitudes that confirm our existence as the highest and most demanding gift: friendship and its secrets, bodily love, illness, fears, dependencies—these are some of the extremes that run through this novel, which, in a calm convulsion, repositions or questions our own identities and our most unexpected truths.

Sometimes disorder allows natural light to enter: this story speaks to you and recognizes you.

Alejandro Simón Partal