By Luciana Prodan | “There are people who change your life who open the world to you from another perspective who revolutionize you inside” says María Luisa Balaguer magistrate jurist Spanish writer professor of Constitutional Law professor of Law and Journalism at the University from Malaga and equality expert when they ask her why she decided to write a biographical essay about Iris Zavala Puerto Rican writer poet historian essayist feminist and then after hearing her words everything begins to have another meaning. All the pieces of “Let no one die without loving the sea” Huso that book that we finished reading begin to fit together as if by magic. For that magic that only happens when life using in this case a biography as an excuse becomes the mirror and reflection of all those things that constitute us move us outrage us justify us and crucify us? for the mere fact of being born women forcing us in some way to be do and demonstrate that we are much more than “that.”
But what? What is it to be a woman? And then the unapproachable question looks us in the eyes and waits. It writhes in the mud of double discourses those double discourses that also kill and they challenge us once again with the sole intention of confusing us ignoring that this time Balaguer's voice became an echo and response. Or in an outstretched hand that brings us towards the shore slowly while it encourages us and encourages us to UAE Phone Number enter the depths of the same sea that envelops convulses and blesses the life and literature of Iris Zavala with overwhelming force. The same force that has been in her blood since she was little thanks to her grandmother's unconditional love and forces her to go for more. He pushes her and invites her to be different. She not to conform or make useless efforts to fit within the false pre-established canons that persecute all women from the cradle on our heels and accompanies her to honor and justify her “desire” without asking permission.
She without feeling guilty for living her life dancing to the rhythm of her own song. Of her own passion. Because the desire as María Luisa Balaguer tells us in this surgical moving and implacable biography for Iris was non-negotiable and for this reason she will end up being the main character of all her work. Of her entire life. He will be present accompanied by her desire in each of her essays her novels her poems and in her boleros of course which she liked so much. I must confess something: talking about Iris who unfortunately died in April of this year at the age of a victim of Covid- and not thinking about María Luisa is impossible. And it is impossible because these women are intertwined; united by the invisible threads of love equality justice and courage. For loyalty. For the words. For the letters. For that “feminism” what a controversial word which does not talk about colors scarves flags but which however is capable of crossing islands countries continents and borders with the sole intention of conquering our very longed for and beaten freedom despite everything. And of everyone.
發表於 2024-3-9 19:15:13
