As tends to be the case with good novels, this one isn’t about anything in particular. What’s more, in this novel, she has impeccable syntactic control, and her ear is sharper than ever before.Īfter the Winter is written in two voices: the first belongs to a Mexican student living in Paris, and the second belongs to a Cuban editor based in New York. I envy how naturally she makes use of language her resistance to ornamentation and artifice and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature. I like the neat seriousness of her diction, always in such stark contrast to the audacity of the spirit of her prose. I try to learn from her sense of freedom and self-assuredness. I read her with the admiration of a colleague. I read her with the curiosity of an old friend. THROUGH AUDACITY TOWARDS THE STARS LATIN PROFESSIONALIt’s difficult for me to read Nettel, the author of nine books of fiction and essay, with the distance of a professional critic. Free of complexes, free of systematic philosophies, of trends and repressive ideologies, free of the need to please, Nettel, who was born in Mexico City and has lived between Mexico and France, has become a compelling example of contemporary Latin American literature. She is an author who resists easy classification, and the constant quality and variety of her work has won her the only thing a writer truly needs: the freedom to go on writing whatever she wants. Guadalupe Nettel’s body of work has accumulated the prestige it deserves-most recently, for After the Winter, Nettel won Anagrama’s prestigious Herralde Prize, awarded to an original Spanish novel.
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