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Y la serpiente dijo a la mujer

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Parece como si Lourdes Oñederra hubiese esperado el tiempo necesario para que reflexionando sobre el peso de los recuerdos, urdiera con suficiencia una trama excepcional que por costumbre corresponde a escritores con una extensa biografía literaria, pues sorprende que con una sola novela haya sido capaz de dar con este intenso relato que ha obtenido el Premio de la Crítica, y que ha atrapado, por su valentía y riesgo a la hora de descubrir las confesiones de una mujer adulta y casada, a tantos lectores.

Escrita en torno a las sensaciones y vivencias de un diario personal que se divide tras las coordenadas emotivas que coinciden con las estaciones del año, la protagonista, una mujer a medio camino entre los treinta y los cuarenta, repasa su vida con lupa, hablando sin concesiones del amor, del cansancio, del aburrimiento, de la amistad, en una época en la que los recuerdos de la niñez empiezan a quedar lejos.

Los recuerdos que no se comprenden tienen que volver a abrirse una y otra vez, y quizá recordar sea la vida, se nos dice en las páginas de Y la serpiente dijo a la mujer, un título que sirve a la autora para mirar alrededor del mundo de la mujer que carga sus dudas sobre el amor cuando el cuerpo se ha agotado tanto en un itinerario donde todos buscamos refugio, ocupados como estamos por entender la vida, el tiempo y otras ataduras biológicas o sentimentales.

137 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

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January 9, 2023
never have i read a book like this.
also, never have i ever felt like a book was talking about ME omg that first chapter really did me in
onederra's mix of poetry and narrative, with a subtle (but clear) switching of perspectives while all using second person was a dizzyingly yummy concoction. it was such a creative read. each chapter was a season, so you got to see the main character's "growth" and "progress"
the ideas that onederra brought up, delicious. each one was so fascinating to watch the main character, "you" be led through this thought trail.
loved it, love thinking about it. will defo be something i return to in the future.
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16 reviews
June 27, 2023
I found this in the English section of Tarragona library on a day I was in there to avail of the air con. No expectations, nothing to go off other than a bewitching title. This proved to be my biggest surprise of 2023.

Told in the second person, it is at once vulnerable and yet somehow cold. The narrator is having none of herself, and goes for the nerve of her affair. She is at sea in her middle age, her inner-world rich and reassuring, yet also harsh.

I took this as a reminder that we hold the most power over ourselves in the end, that you’d better be careful with how you narrate yourself and that second person narration is powerful weapon in the right hands.
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January 4, 2021
Forman zein edukian iraultzailea. Jatorriz euskaraz idatzi diren lanen artean, irakurritako harrigarriena, 'Obabakoak'-ekin batera. Alditan hain trinkoa, ezen ez dagoen pasajeak berrirakurtzea baino den-dena absorbatzeko. Alditan hain naturala, ezen zaila egin dakiokeen irakurleari protagonistaren errealitatetik desitsastea.
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December 26, 2013
Incredibly beautiful and sad as a woman describes her sink into depression and the destruction of her marriage.
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