Antes (Before)

Escrito por Carmen Boullosa

Narrado por Carmen Boullosa

La protagonista de esta novela de Carmen Boullosa retorna, como acaso lo hubieran querido Euridice o Beatriz, a los territorios de la infancia: esa condicion salvajemente desordenada donde se genera la conciencia. La infanta de Antes, salta el cerco del jardin de las palabras para recobrar de ellas su inocencia, sabe que en el miedo principia el alfabeto de su historia: la de una identidad que como su cuerpo escapa a la vida. Antes recibio el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 1989.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 31 jul 2008
• ISBN: 9781436130653

Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa (Ciudad de México, 1954), becaria de la Fundación Guggenheim, del Center for Scholars and Writers de la New York Public Library y profesora en diversas universidades estadounidenses, forma parte del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de México. Su obra ha sido merecedora de múltiples galardones, como el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, el LiBeraturpreis de la Ciudad de Frankfurt, el Anna Seghers de la Academia de las Artes de Berlín y el Premio de Novela Café Gijón.

Comentarios para Antes (Before)

[dreesie-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Three stars? Four stars? I am honestly a little (a lot?) confused by this novel. I have read some articles online and have read two very different professional interpretations, and I agree with one of them (the more common one, woo hoo me??).This is a coming-of-age novel of sorts. Only here a woman is looking back at the fears she had a s a child growing up in an upper middle class/upper class home in Mexico City. She had two older half sisters, and attended a private Catholic school. She was bullied at school and had an odd relationship with her mother (she shared her father with her sisters), who was a professional and respected artist. As a child, the narrator had a lot of fears. She was afraid of night noises (house creaks, etc), and constantly thought she heard footsteps. This is her BEFORE. Before becoming a woman, before having the rules and expectations of womanhood within her class and culture. Childhood was fun ad safety, my interpretation of the footsteps is they were her future--sneaking up on her. Womanhood and adulthood was responsibility, expectations, motherhood, menstruation, bras--the things tat caused her sisters to shut her out as they got older.She knew it was coming for her, but she didn't know what it meant.