Joyce and laughter "I like corrosive humor"
The new novel by the prolific Joyce Carol Oates (Lockport, New York, 1938) addresses whether the truth is to be told due to the consequences that it can bring, in this case familiar.
It is the axis of
Delatora
(Alfaguara), a quite explicit title.
The same publisher has just reissued
Blonde
, 926 pages in which the candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature is camouflaged under the skin of Marilyn Monroe.
The writer responds to the two books via email.
Should the truth always be told? When we are children we receive the love of our parents, who love us insofar as we are their children. It does not occur to us to think that they love us for being their children and not for ourselves. As we grow older and become teenagers, we may discover that asserting ourselves as our individual and not as children of our parents could run the risk of upsetting them, arousing their anger, and (perhaps) creating a rift between them and us. In my novel, the little daughter tells the truth about her siblings 'involvement in a hate crime against a black student, and that is where her parents' rejection of her begins. She did not choose to cut off her family. It is as if the truth demands to be told. Now it is impossible for him to retract.Today, with the
fake news
And post-truth, it seems that the truth has lost value. Telling the truth is more important today than ever, but it can be harmful if it is a truth that separates you from your family. On issues of race, in the United States there are strong divisions between those who favor equality (between races but also between the sexes and people of different ethnic origins) and those who advocate for white supremacy. Even within the same family there have been dramatic divisions, encouraged by former President Donald Trump, who exploited with surprising success the latent racism in his followers.The family seems a haven where everything is exaggerated, especially for the bad: the Hates or envies remain hidden for life or so it seems in the book.Is that so? There are often divisions and quarrels within each family. However, when a member of a family dies, the alliances existing until that moment are usually transformed. If bitterness reigns in one generation, it will not in the next. After the death of the father, Violet, the exiled daughter of my novel, is allowed to return. But he has grown older and has progressed in life with courage. He has a close partner whom the family never gets to know, a young black intellectual from his hometown. "" All happy families look alike; the wretched are each in their own way, 'as Tolstoy wrote at the beginning ofAfter the death of the father, Violet, the exiled daughter of my novel, is allowed to return. But he has grown older and has progressed in life with courage. He has a close partner whom the family never gets to know, a young black intellectual from his hometown. "" All happy families look alike; the wretched are each in their own way, 'as Tolstoy wrote at the beginning ofAfter the death of the father, Violet, the exiled daughter of my novel, is allowed to return. But he has grown older and has progressed in life with courage. He has a close partner whom the family never gets to know, a young black intellectual from his hometown. "" All happy families look alike; the wretched are each in their own way, 'as Tolstoy wrote at the beginning of
Ana Karenina
? No, I don't think so. Tolstoy was a story writer and therefore exaggerated the drama of differences. Not all happy families are the same, of course not. Not all people are the same, and families are all very very different from each other. It seems, according to the novel, that racism is latent in people who apparently are not, but who look the other way. Racism is a tragic issue in America, but Americans deal with it transparently, in public debates and in trials, such as the one currently taking place against the Minneapolis police officer who murdered black citizen George Floyd in one act. incredible whose images, luckily, were recorded on a mobile phone.
Informer
It also addresses sexual harassment by a family member, which is even more difficult to report. Sexual harassment and abuse often go unpunished in the US because young victims are afraid to report. They believe that they will not be taken seriously and that they could be punished. It is estimated that 50% of rapes are not reported out of fear. The book is bitter, there is hardly a point of light. There is not an iota of conformity. However, there is a small glimmer of hope: a possible (though not explicitly mentioned) relationship between Violet and her former classmate Tyrell Jones. However, living with a black man is as if he is taking revenge on his family. Both Violet and Tyrell were outcasts in high school. They understand each other well. As an intellectual, Tyrell is not an activist. He seems to be a quiet and timid man, ideal for Violet,She has suffered so much trauma. Violet plays an anonymous heroine, constantly on the run, but trying to get by as best she can. Most of the characters in the novel are private, not public. Violet is a brave young woman, whose greatest challenge is to redeem herself. She has come to hate herself for the way she was separated from her family. Now it is reissued in Spain
Blonde
, her book on Marilyn Monroe, in which she deals with her mental confusion, the sexual myth, her family origin ... Everything ends badly. "Everything ends badly" is not a good epithet to define a great -although undervalued- American film artist who starred in a series of immortal, admired, and adored films.
Like Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Baker accomplished many things.
As a lonely soul (a kind of emotional orphan) she had a tragic life.
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