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The Red Notebook
The Red Notebook belongs to the autobiographical genre and is the author’s most ambitious novel, one that has achieved a truly lyrical tone. Although it should be included in the novelwriting tradition that deals with the female voice and memory, this novel breaks new ground from a physical and psychological point of view, bringing out the social and political aspects of motherhood. For the protagonist, political commitment is an endeavor that can’t compare to motherhood and this, in a nutshell, is what the novel emphasizes once and again. Thus, with great skill, Urretabizkaia offers us the confessions of a woman forced to weigh political commitment against motherhood. (Mari Jose Olaziregi, www.basqueliterature.com)
126 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2008
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August 16, 2015
I originally read the first chapter of this book when my son brought it home as one of his assigned college books and I was eager to finish it. That eagerness waned quickly. The book centered too much on L's thoughts and actions and far too little on the Basque issue or who Mother was. This could have been so much more.
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