
Jamás el fuego nunca
Periférica, 2012 | Never Ever Did the Fire
Synopsis
(Never Ever Did the Fire) The title of this enthralling, devastating novel comes from an enigmatic verse written by Peruvian poet César Vallejo, which somehow anticipates the story
of a passion (a fire) that was born under the sign of a failure, together with he story, beyond the threshold of death, of a defeated leftist revolutionary roject. The main characters, a woman (the narrator) and her couple, seem to be installed in a time that is no longer theirs’, a new century, a new millennium, and from that perspective they judge how futile their adventure has been. Everything occurs in a reduced space, a room that is also a world with an order, one would say, of its own and almost ghostly: the proper space, perhaps, to talk about the downfall of ideologies and bodies.
Displaying a prose that has no fear of the convulsive beauty demanded by André Breton, Diamela Eltit, one of the greatest names in Latin American literature of the turn of the 20th Century, has constructed an impressively effective narrative, a sort of definitive obituary of a common experience, a failure shared by a whole generation that believed in a social revolutionary project that eventually would not succeed.
For any reader, Jamás el fuego nunca constitutes a top literary experience, as it masterfully dares to situate on the same level of reflection both political and private commitment, motherhood, and many other topics that nurture this novel with fertile contradictions.
“I belong to the group of Chilean writers that remained in the country during Pinochet’s dictatorship and, as a cultural rescue action, we built the ‘inxile’ or interior exile. For more than 30 years, we went from violence as a daily situation to a market violence produced by a really intensified neoliberalism.” Diamela Eltit
MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Bibiana CANDIA
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Adrià MARQUÈS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI