Cantoras

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It’s so rustic, in fact, that they don’t have accommodations, and when they find a place to rest, it’s an old fishing hut. Certain events felt like someone was twisting a knife through my heart; I had no idea that I would ever be able to experience pain like that from a piece of fiction. Znajdują dom na odludnym wybrzeżu, w “strefie, gdzie nikt nas nie może znaleźć”, jak mówi jedna z nich.

Jedna z nich, mężatka, która zostawiła w Montevideo rodzinę i wybrała życie w lesbijskiej utopii, jest nim wyraźnie zaskoczona - “obracała to słowo w myślach. Gdy z powrotem nastanie w Urugwaju demokracja, bohaterki De Robertis będą wobec niej bardzo ostrożne.when those actions had, after all, been part of their jobs, and so shut up about the torture, the electric machines, the rapes, the cages without trial, the abuse and starvation, the disappearances, the pain of broken people now released back into the world, you wanted them back, didn’t you? To hell with the dangers, I don’t even care if they kill me for it, I will have lived along the way”.

e. cummings w wierszu “Maggie i Milly, i Molly, i May”: “zawsze morze nas samych odnaleźć nam da” (tłum.They meet and attempt to create a safe place in an off-the-grid beach town, with mixed results - and we follow their growth, foibles, loves and heartbreaks, until, finally, the sort-of end of the Juntas. They’d been forming a kind of family, woven from cast-offs, like a quilt made from strips of leftover fabric no one wanted. Given family (biologic, usually) versus created or chosen family, the idea of “shared ancestors”, the need to hide who you are - all very interesting and important, especially for gay people living in such dangerous times. This author has done a fantastic job of capturing and portraying the political turmoil, fear and tension that became an everyday occurrence from the moment the coup d’état happened and the military government took over. Rich and luscious, De Robertis’ writing feels like a living thing, lapping over the reader like the ocean.