La ciudad invencible
Fernanda Trías
NOVEL | 2013 | 132 pages
La ciudad invencible is a personal cartography of Buenos Aires. It is in this city, and not in any other, where an Uruguayan writer receives the news of her father’s death. As she walks through the streets, she looks for corners where she can cultivate memories that aren’t related to “the rat,” the violent ex-boyfriend who she denounced for abuse.
This novel, in which the vertigo of a newcomer is met with new affections, is a way of appropriating a territoroy and delivering it to the reader with a sharp and torn up perspective.
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“A good book never talks about one single thing. This story talks about a sentimental education in the city where a person has arrived and now lives but that they don’t know yet: at once a hospitable and an impossible city. The breach between physical ignorance and social experience that threads through this story is essential, as it allows it to become an oblique testimony of Buenos Aires. An author who belongs to the city they write about can offer versions that are more or less plausible, but only a person with an outsider’s perspective will record life without the borrowed or the implicit. With this novel that borders between a diary and a personal history, Fernanda Trías joins the great tradition of writers who, as foreigners, have been the most eloquent when representing the incomplete Buenos Aires that accepted them, for better or worse.”
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