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Faré tot el que tu vulguis
La Nora, una dona casada de quaranta anys que amaga un secret, coneix el Nacho, un jove biòleg, en un avió, on serà infidel, per primera vegada, al seu marit. A partir d’aquesta trobada es crearà un joc de dependència i passió que la Nora convertirà en quadres per a la seva propera exposició. “No hi ha res més enganyós que l’enamorament. I el d’algú que s’enamora per primera vegada als quaranta, encara més”.
Faré tot el que tu vulguis és el viatge del despertar a l'amor, la sensualitat i la sexualitat d’una dona atrapada emocionalment per un matrimoni convencional. "Sempre va ser bona, massa bona. Les nenes bones un dia deixen de ser-ho". És una novel·la on la protagonista aprèn a fer el que ella vol i no el que volen els altres. És un camí del "Faré tot el que tu vulguis" al "Faré tot el que jo vulgui", o com a mínim, "Començaré a entendre una mica què vull i ho perseguiré".
La novel·la ens parla de les trobades furtives, les experiències extremes, de provar coses noves i de la manera com les nostres vides poden estar guiades per una hipocresia i una mentida i com un fet inesperat ens pot obrir els ulls, no a una veritat absoluta, sinó a una veritat diferent. "Quan algú comença a pensar sobre l'amor, l'amor ja ha desaparegut. Aleshores què queda? [...]. Alguna cosa diferent. La creença d'amor només és creença i mentrestant l'amor busca finestres".
Faré tot el que tu vulguis és el viatge del despertar a l'amor, la sensualitat i la sexualitat d’una dona atrapada emocionalment per un matrimoni convencional. "Sempre va ser bona, massa bona. Les nenes bones un dia deixen de ser-ho". És una novel·la on la protagonista aprèn a fer el que ella vol i no el que volen els altres. És un camí del "Faré tot el que tu vulguis" al "Faré tot el que jo vulgui", o com a mínim, "Començaré a entendre una mica què vull i ho perseguiré".
La novel·la ens parla de les trobades furtives, les experiències extremes, de provar coses noves i de la manera com les nostres vides poden estar guiades per una hipocresia i una mentida i com un fet inesperat ens pot obrir els ulls, no a una veritat absoluta, sinó a una veritat diferent. "Quan algú comença a pensar sobre l'amor, l'amor ja ha desaparegut. Aleshores què queda? [...]. Alguna cosa diferent. La creença d'amor només és creença i mentrestant l'amor busca finestres".
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195 pages, Paperback
First published November 21, 2013
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Iolanda Batallé Prats
9 books21 followersIolanda Batallé i Prats (Barcelona, 31 de desembre de 1971) és una editora, escriptora i professora catalana, directora de l'Institut Ramon Llull entre setembre de 2018 i juny de 2021, i directora de la Llibreria Ona des de gener de 2022.
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August 8, 2023
After enjoying Mothers Don’t I can see clearly 3Times Rebel Press, not only publish books by women who write in minority languages but are also are taking literary tropes and giving them a fresh angle. Mother’s Don’t looked motherhood in a unique way. I’ll Do Anything You Want does the same with another topic.
I am not a fan of novels which have adultery has a main plot. I tend to find it boring as it leads to repetition : one person first finding an affair exciting then as it deepens, it leads to bouncing around many lovers. I’ll Do Anything… starts off like this but then goes off on to different routes.
The narrator, Nora, consensually has her breasts squeezed in an airplane by a man nicknamed Nacho and this sets off a chain of events, Nora yo-yos through doubt, regret and fidelity of her husband of 25 years. As Nora delves further into the affair she experiments with being a sex worker and the book continues to explore the psychological effects of this situation.
By the book’s conclusion Nora knows what to do and she breaks free. In the novel’s blurb Nora is compared to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s book and it is reminiscent of Alice overcoming the Jabberwocky and waking up to reality.
Did I like the book? to be honest, the theme is not my thing but I definitely do admire it and I liked the directions and intertextuality of the themes. I’ll Do Anything You Want is a rich novel but, for me, it’s not a story I could embrace fully.
I am not a fan of novels which have adultery has a main plot. I tend to find it boring as it leads to repetition : one person first finding an affair exciting then as it deepens, it leads to bouncing around many lovers. I’ll Do Anything… starts off like this but then goes off on to different routes.
The narrator, Nora, consensually has her breasts squeezed in an airplane by a man nicknamed Nacho and this sets off a chain of events, Nora yo-yos through doubt, regret and fidelity of her husband of 25 years. As Nora delves further into the affair she experiments with being a sex worker and the book continues to explore the psychological effects of this situation.
By the book’s conclusion Nora knows what to do and she breaks free. In the novel’s blurb Nora is compared to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s book and it is reminiscent of Alice overcoming the Jabberwocky and waking up to reality.
Did I like the book? to be honest, the theme is not my thing but I definitely do admire it and I liked the directions and intertextuality of the themes. I’ll Do Anything You Want is a rich novel but, for me, it’s not a story I could embrace fully.
March 20, 2025
No tens perquè llegir qualsevol llibre que trobis per casa
May 14, 2023
I’ll Do Anything You Want (2013, tr: Maruxa Relaño & Martha Tennent, 2023) by Iolande Batallé is the tale of Nora, a painter who, after twenty-five years in a regular marriage, goes astray with a man she meets on a plane. It’s a thrill that brings her marriage into focus (“Neither of them made an effort. The man bored her.”) and her decisions from there take her through the looking-glass into a world far removed from staid family life: that of high-end prostitution.
“Nora lived where everyone with a family lives, on the edge of an abyss”, writes Batalle, and as she falls into it, we see initial uncertainty grow into confidence with each encounter. What may at first have been a sexual awakening becomes a journey of discovery that ends in liberation. As a painter, she finds inspiration in her johns and looks to make an exhibition (“McCullers said that writing was her way of earning her soul…[Nora] did the same with her painting.”) stirred by her trysts.
Carson McCullers’ ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ is a prominent reference, against many other touchstones, paraphrased as “only by loving all things can one survive great heartbreak”, effectively a mantra against the matrilineal norm that saw both her mother and grandmother remain committed, to the end, only to their husbands. “Nora,” we’re told, “had decided to follow desire wherever it led her”, an apt survival technique as ”death begins when desire ceases”.
For all its sex and desire, this is not ‘fifty shades’ erotica, but a literary exploration of love, told in an engaging style that drifts freely through its characters’ minds, with recurring thoughts and images gaining clarity with each wave, and full of reflections (“We all arrive at our knowledge of love by having loved a few people.”) on love and what it truly means.
Of all the people in Nora’s life, her deceased parents, and her independent daughters, there are ultimately three key men that come into sharp focus: her pimp, her husband, and the grandfather who raised her. Each have secrets that the narrative eventually unlocks and their combined impact leads a woman who “had never really made any decisions about her life” to take control and find her worth.
“Nora lived where everyone with a family lives, on the edge of an abyss”, writes Batalle, and as she falls into it, we see initial uncertainty grow into confidence with each encounter. What may at first have been a sexual awakening becomes a journey of discovery that ends in liberation. As a painter, she finds inspiration in her johns and looks to make an exhibition (“McCullers said that writing was her way of earning her soul…[Nora] did the same with her painting.”) stirred by her trysts.
Carson McCullers’ ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ is a prominent reference, against many other touchstones, paraphrased as “only by loving all things can one survive great heartbreak”, effectively a mantra against the matrilineal norm that saw both her mother and grandmother remain committed, to the end, only to their husbands. “Nora,” we’re told, “had decided to follow desire wherever it led her”, an apt survival technique as ”death begins when desire ceases”.
For all its sex and desire, this is not ‘fifty shades’ erotica, but a literary exploration of love, told in an engaging style that drifts freely through its characters’ minds, with recurring thoughts and images gaining clarity with each wave, and full of reflections (“We all arrive at our knowledge of love by having loved a few people.”) on love and what it truly means.
Of all the people in Nora’s life, her deceased parents, and her independent daughters, there are ultimately three key men that come into sharp focus: her pimp, her husband, and the grandfather who raised her. Each have secrets that the narrative eventually unlocks and their combined impact leads a woman who “had never really made any decisions about her life” to take control and find her worth.
March 22, 2015
Es una novela seductora, intensa y que mantiene el interés en todo momento. A través de la protagonista, Nora, entras en sus pensamientos, sensaciones, sentimientos y te atrapa de tal forma que no puedes dejar de leer, capítulo tras capítulo. Trata de una mujer que lo único que siempre ha buscado es amor, ser querida y que para ello ha hecho siempre todo lo que le han pedido creyendo que así lo conseguiría. Hasta que llega un momento en el que abre los ojos y toma la decisión de hacer lo que ella quiera. Me ha encantado la forma en la que la autora describe todas las situaciones y, al hacerlo a través de la protagonista, sientes intensamente todas sus emociones. Hay momentos en los que parece que todo es un caos y es que es así como lo vive Nora, son sus pensamientos, sus sueños, que refleja en los cuadros que pinta junto con todas las situaciones que vive.
April 10, 2023
I’ve been thinking about what to say about this one as it is like nothing else I’ve ever read. Nothing else. I connected with this book on so many personal levels I feel I’m reviewing it for no one but me. So with that in mind, all I really want to say is this story is a piece of fiction that grabbed me by the neck and left me with just about enough air to breathe so I could stay alive to read it. Outstanding.
January 14, 2025
3.5
Una història poc convencional, sens dubte.
Com sempre, una prosa essencialment poètica (un pèl feixuga en algunes ocasions, a parer meu).
T’atrapa força.
Una història poc convencional, sens dubte.
Com sempre, una prosa essencialment poètica (un pèl feixuga en algunes ocasions, a parer meu).
T’atrapa força.
February 16, 2021
Ni conocía el libro, ni a la autora, ni encontré demasiada información de ninguna de las dos cosas, por lo que de entrada, ya os digo que no es un libro muy comercial.
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Además, por el título y la portada, da la sensación de ser de tipo Erotica, y así nos lo hace creer también la propia descripción en la contraportada, cuando en realidad es más un viaje psicológico por la vida de la protagonista, que sí, se desnuda bastantes veces y mantiene relaciones pero... yo la verdad como Erotica no la veo para nada.
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Se me hace complicadisima esta reseña, hasta para explicaros de qué va. Si me preguntáis si me gustó, os diré que si, que estuvo bien. Si la volvería a leer? Pues no. Y si la recomendaría? Pues depende. Si eres un lector curioso, este libro 📖 es extraño en todo. La narración, el orden del libro, de la historia, y hasta la propia trama lo es. Pero al llegar al final parece que pones las piezas en su sitio y entiendes cosas que no tenían pies ni cabeza desde el capítulo uno.
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El libro cuenta la historia de Nora. Una mujer de 40 años, casada, y pintora de éxito. En un viaje de avión ✈ conoce a un hombre, Nacho, con el que le es infiel a su marido por primera vez, en medio del vuelo 😳. A partir de este momento, este hombre toma protagonismo en su vida (No como amante exactamente) y hace que Nora se replantee su vida.
Su historia está marcada por el suicidio del padre, la muerte de su madre poco después de un infarto, y la de su abuela, todas siendo ella muy pequeña. Su abuelo es quién la cría, y deja una huella en ella, con consejos para una futura vida. "Se tú"
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Por ello, durante toda la novela Nora se encuentra dándole vueltas a esta frase, ¿debe ser buena?, ¿debe ser ella misma?, ¿debe ser lo que quieren los demás?, ¿qué le aconsejaría su abuelo si estuviera vivo?.
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Cuando comencé la la novela, no sabía muy bien a que atenerme, me parecía caótica, como si asistiera a los pensamientos inconexos de una persona. Poco a poco me dí cuenta de que precisamente eso es lo que tenía delante de mí, el proceso de
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Además, por el título y la portada, da la sensación de ser de tipo Erotica, y así nos lo hace creer también la propia descripción en la contraportada, cuando en realidad es más un viaje psicológico por la vida de la protagonista, que sí, se desnuda bastantes veces y mantiene relaciones pero... yo la verdad como Erotica no la veo para nada.
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Se me hace complicadisima esta reseña, hasta para explicaros de qué va. Si me preguntáis si me gustó, os diré que si, que estuvo bien. Si la volvería a leer? Pues no. Y si la recomendaría? Pues depende. Si eres un lector curioso, este libro 📖 es extraño en todo. La narración, el orden del libro, de la historia, y hasta la propia trama lo es. Pero al llegar al final parece que pones las piezas en su sitio y entiendes cosas que no tenían pies ni cabeza desde el capítulo uno.
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El libro cuenta la historia de Nora. Una mujer de 40 años, casada, y pintora de éxito. En un viaje de avión ✈ conoce a un hombre, Nacho, con el que le es infiel a su marido por primera vez, en medio del vuelo 😳. A partir de este momento, este hombre toma protagonismo en su vida (No como amante exactamente) y hace que Nora se replantee su vida.
Su historia está marcada por el suicidio del padre, la muerte de su madre poco después de un infarto, y la de su abuela, todas siendo ella muy pequeña. Su abuelo es quién la cría, y deja una huella en ella, con consejos para una futura vida. "Se tú"
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Por ello, durante toda la novela Nora se encuentra dándole vueltas a esta frase, ¿debe ser buena?, ¿debe ser ella misma?, ¿debe ser lo que quieren los demás?, ¿qué le aconsejaría su abuelo si estuviera vivo?.
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Cuando comencé la la novela, no sabía muy bien a que atenerme, me parecía caótica, como si asistiera a los pensamientos inconexos de una persona. Poco a poco me dí cuenta de que precisamente eso es lo que tenía delante de mí, el proceso de
April 16, 2023
Thank you @3TimesRebel and @IolandaBatalle for letting me read and review this book. I'll do anything you want is an amazing read to the point I could not put it down and finished it in three hours. This book is nothing like I have read before its outstanding. The writing and the descriptions are beautiful and there is one sentence I loved which was "It was my mother's faith her love, that brought me back to life". I found the book very easy to get into and I found Nora a fascinating character. I felt for her at times with what she was going through. You follow Nora's journey into the past and with her relationship with her husband, with sex and finding herself. Brilliant book and I will look out for more books by Iolanda Batalle in the future. Her writing is elegant and mesmerizing. 5 Stars a fantastic read.
February 12, 2014
Mm... de momento creó que voy a cavilar un poco mi opinión del libro. Pero pienso que es un libro que tiene un gran trabajo detrás, que tiene un mensaje oculto que igual capto después de dormir un poco.
April 26, 2023
Història dura explicada amb moltes repeticions d'escenes i de frases.
El descobriment d'un mateix. Qui som? Qui no som? Qui volem ser?
Moltes referències culturals: música, literatura, cinema, pintura...
Històries amb secrets que no s'acaben d'explicar del tot.
Plena de "sentències".
El descobriment d'un mateix. Qui som? Qui no som? Qui volem ser?
Moltes referències culturals: música, literatura, cinema, pintura...
Històries amb secrets que no s'acaben d'explicar del tot.
Plena de "sentències".
February 27, 2024
What tf was that 👁️👄👁️
February 16, 2025
This book is about a woman who meets someone that introduces her to new emotions and trials and tribulations of love, making her question the 'perfect' life she built with her and her husband. Her new connection sends her into an emotional spiral and questionable activities. She eventually leaves the new man and confronts her trauma, setting herself free. She learns that nothing is truly perfect and leaves her old life behind. (I hope that is right because it was a tough one to stomach for me)
I have a lot of compassion for the main character and the emotions she went through throughout the novel as some of her experiences navigating love, uncertainty and loss were not unlike my own but all of that was not enough for me to get past the fact that the plot is boring. Executing a character-driven story is not always easy and what was especially jarring was the constant repetition of the same phrases throughout the novel. It added quite little to the text and appeared to be lazy.
Wasn't a big fan of how empowerment was portrayed through Nora's character? Especially in the context of her love affair with Nacho??? If anything, it showed how naive and juvenile Nora is. I considered that my lack of comprehension of all of this may be down to my personal biases and lack of understanding of the links between trauma and SW. Of course, towards the end, things finally started to make sense as Nora revealed her big (and tragic) secret and her further confrontation with Robert led her to finally move on with her life. My frustrations are mainly tied to the fact that I did not buy into Nacho's character at all. I am glad that Nora left him as I felt that her freedom from him gave her a lot more agency.
I was extremely disappointed in the revelation that Robert was cheating on Nora for as long as he did. Perhaps my disappointment as a reader was meant to be as this is not an uncommon problem in relationships and, in reality, so many people get hurt when they learn that their significant other has been unfaithful. Still, Robert's actions vexed me a lot as he represents the idea that everybody cheats and they do so without any remorse for their actions. It just shows how normalised infidelity is and I cannot help but put my head into my hands from the anger over it.
Overall, I am not sure if I recommend the book, to be honest. I thought it was meant to be a nice quick read but it got a bit boring and repetitive so it was hard to finish.
I have a lot of compassion for the main character and the emotions she went through throughout the novel as some of her experiences navigating love, uncertainty and loss were not unlike my own but all of that was not enough for me to get past the fact that the plot is boring. Executing a character-driven story is not always easy and what was especially jarring was the constant repetition of the same phrases throughout the novel. It added quite little to the text and appeared to be lazy.
Wasn't a big fan of how empowerment was portrayed through Nora's character? Especially in the context of her love affair with Nacho??? If anything, it showed how naive and juvenile Nora is. I considered that my lack of comprehension of all of this may be down to my personal biases and lack of understanding of the links between trauma and SW. Of course, towards the end, things finally started to make sense as Nora revealed her big (and tragic) secret and her further confrontation with Robert led her to finally move on with her life. My frustrations are mainly tied to the fact that I did not buy into Nacho's character at all. I am glad that Nora left him as I felt that her freedom from him gave her a lot more agency.
I was extremely disappointed in the revelation that Robert was cheating on Nora for as long as he did. Perhaps my disappointment as a reader was meant to be as this is not an uncommon problem in relationships and, in reality, so many people get hurt when they learn that their significant other has been unfaithful. Still, Robert's actions vexed me a lot as he represents the idea that everybody cheats and they do so without any remorse for their actions. It just shows how normalised infidelity is and I cannot help but put my head into my hands from the anger over it.
Overall, I am not sure if I recommend the book, to be honest. I thought it was meant to be a nice quick read but it got a bit boring and repetitive so it was hard to finish.
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November 18, 2024
No es el tipo de libro que me hace vibrar, un poco como le pasa a Nora con Madame Bovary, yo sigo pensando que es estúpida, quizá porque nunca me he sentido sola, como dice la novela.
Nora no me parece tan estúpida como Madame Bovary, creo que es valiente al exponer toda su vulnerabilidad para vivir de manera más plena, pero me cuesta entender que para coger las riendas se someta de tal manera, pero quién soy yo para pretender entender las maneras de alguien con las vivencias de ella.
Cada uno se enfrenta a sus secretos como sea, y ella lo saca todo, aceptando lo que le viene, queriendo llegar hasta el final y ver qué le trae. Se somete por voluntad propia, toma sus decisiones. Ella ha decidido ser ella misma, y para eso se dispone a explorar, sin juzgarse, sin más mentiras.
No puedo evitar juzgarla. ¿Qué necesidad tiene una mujer como ella de meterse a puta? Ninguna.
Sin embargo, puede que esa sea la clave.
Es una novela caótica, porque plasma el caos mental de Nora, y te deja acompañarla en su transformación. Te muestra todo lo que arrastra del pasado y presente hecho un nudo, que va deshaciendo a medida que va destapándose. La muerte de su abuelo es el detonante, la persona que más quiso y más daño le hizo, que marca todo en ella ya no está y empieza a vivir para ser ella misma, como él le pide al morir. De esta manera, haciéndole caso, se empodera.
Me pregunto si Nora hubiese podido sincerarse con su marido si este hubiese sido tan fiel y bueno como ella creía. Es más fácil reconocerse en la imperfección.
Nora no me parece tan estúpida como Madame Bovary, creo que es valiente al exponer toda su vulnerabilidad para vivir de manera más plena, pero me cuesta entender que para coger las riendas se someta de tal manera, pero quién soy yo para pretender entender las maneras de alguien con las vivencias de ella.
Cada uno se enfrenta a sus secretos como sea, y ella lo saca todo, aceptando lo que le viene, queriendo llegar hasta el final y ver qué le trae. Se somete por voluntad propia, toma sus decisiones. Ella ha decidido ser ella misma, y para eso se dispone a explorar, sin juzgarse, sin más mentiras.
No puedo evitar juzgarla. ¿Qué necesidad tiene una mujer como ella de meterse a puta? Ninguna.
Sin embargo, puede que esa sea la clave.
Es una novela caótica, porque plasma el caos mental de Nora, y te deja acompañarla en su transformación. Te muestra todo lo que arrastra del pasado y presente hecho un nudo, que va deshaciendo a medida que va destapándose. La muerte de su abuelo es el detonante, la persona que más quiso y más daño le hizo, que marca todo en ella ya no está y empieza a vivir para ser ella misma, como él le pide al morir. De esta manera, haciéndole caso, se empodera.
Me pregunto si Nora hubiese podido sincerarse con su marido si este hubiese sido tan fiel y bueno como ella creía. Es más fácil reconocerse en la imperfección.
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March 16, 2021
Doncs no he acabat de connectar amb el llibre. He de reconèixer que la Iolanda Batallé té un estil molt, molt personal (i literàriament interessant al meu gust) per explicar aquesta història, però a mi m'ha resultat massa confusa, em costava seguir la deriva de pensament i les associacions mentals dels personatges, i inversemblants. L'anagnòrisi cap al final del llibre resulta sorprenent, però llavors, per què presentar aquesta relació com d'una tendresa profunda? Per què la protagonista passa d'una vida a una altra només per una aventura (raríssima) en un avió? Potser el que em passa és que la romàntica m'ha absorbit tant que no em deixa gaudir d'altres gèneres, però hi havia moments en que em feia rememorar la lectura de las Cincuenta Sombras..., que em va resultar nefasta, i altres en que l'estructura gongórica em semblava extremadament poètica, però em feia ballar el cap.
April 1, 2025
No m'ha convençut aquest llibre. La història és bona, però la manera de narrar de l'autora és massa poètica, crec que divaga massa i fa que el relat sigui massa intens.
June 18, 2023
4.5 stars
When I studied Spain’s history and culture at school, we learned about the sense of freedom people experienced after the fall of Franco – something seen in film, TV and books ever since.
In Iolande Batallé’s I’ll Do Anything You Want (translated by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennant), we see a woman embracing her sexual freedom, casting off the shackles of marriage and learning about herself.
It’s a wild ride, as Nora effectively finds herself working as a high class prostitute, after a chance sexual encounter on a plane. Although shocking and demeaning in certain places, it’s also strangely empowering as we join Nora in this journey of self-discovery.
Although sexual exploration is the main theme, Batallé also touches on themes of adultery, child abuse and death. As we learn more about Nora’s traumatic past, we start to understand the choices she is making now. Although she loves her husband and children, sexual domination sexually by strangers gives her the thrill and excitement she’s missing – and in fact needs – for her creative expression.
Batallé is clearly influenced by other authors – including Lewis Carroll, as we have random, continuous references to a White Rabbit and being late – but there are also elements that wouldn’t be out of place in a Pedro Almodóvar film.
Dark, intriguing and provocative, I’ll Do Anything You Want invites readers to take a look at themselves and ask ‘Who am I?
When I studied Spain’s history and culture at school, we learned about the sense of freedom people experienced after the fall of Franco – something seen in film, TV and books ever since.
In Iolande Batallé’s I’ll Do Anything You Want (translated by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennant), we see a woman embracing her sexual freedom, casting off the shackles of marriage and learning about herself.
It’s a wild ride, as Nora effectively finds herself working as a high class prostitute, after a chance sexual encounter on a plane. Although shocking and demeaning in certain places, it’s also strangely empowering as we join Nora in this journey of self-discovery.
Although sexual exploration is the main theme, Batallé also touches on themes of adultery, child abuse and death. As we learn more about Nora’s traumatic past, we start to understand the choices she is making now. Although she loves her husband and children, sexual domination sexually by strangers gives her the thrill and excitement she’s missing – and in fact needs – for her creative expression.
Batallé is clearly influenced by other authors – including Lewis Carroll, as we have random, continuous references to a White Rabbit and being late – but there are also elements that wouldn’t be out of place in a Pedro Almodóvar film.
Dark, intriguing and provocative, I’ll Do Anything You Want invites readers to take a look at themselves and ask ‘Who am I?
April 13, 2023
‘Nora had decided to follow desire wherever it led her.’
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I keep thinking how to describe this book as it left me speechless, overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings. Nora is a bit of an unreliable narrator, but only because she herself is at a crossroad - her life changes after a brief affair with a man and now she wants to let go of a huge secret from her past and stand up for her needs. ’She had always run away from desire in order to save herself the trouble’, but no more.
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It wasn’t an easy book, not going to lie. Even though the writing is absolutely beautiful and it takes you both very high and very low, the story itself is not an easy one, but it shouldn’t be. It’s a woman’s journey who owns up to her past and such intimate emotions that you feel uncomfortable as a witness.
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I loved all the movie and songs references and couldn’t stop myself from day dreaming about going for a drink in Plaça Catalunya - not sure what it says about me, but feeling the angst the characters go through is one of my favourite feelings
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What do you think about books with a tough subject?
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The book is already out via @3timesrebel @ibatalle - thank you so much for the copy!
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I keep thinking how to describe this book as it left me speechless, overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings. Nora is a bit of an unreliable narrator, but only because she herself is at a crossroad - her life changes after a brief affair with a man and now she wants to let go of a huge secret from her past and stand up for her needs. ’She had always run away from desire in order to save herself the trouble’, but no more.
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It wasn’t an easy book, not going to lie. Even though the writing is absolutely beautiful and it takes you both very high and very low, the story itself is not an easy one, but it shouldn’t be. It’s a woman’s journey who owns up to her past and such intimate emotions that you feel uncomfortable as a witness.
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I loved all the movie and songs references and couldn’t stop myself from day dreaming about going for a drink in Plaça Catalunya - not sure what it says about me, but feeling the angst the characters go through is one of my favourite feelings
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What do you think about books with a tough subject?
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The book is already out via @3timesrebel @ibatalle - thank you so much for the copy!
February 25, 2014
Un libro muy bien escrito, se nota que la autora es una profesional del mundo editorial.
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