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[Inés Matute, Focus, eleven landscapes for Eros , Tegueste (Tenerife): Baile del Sol, 2009.]

Matute met Agnes a few years ago. She lives Bilbao long ago in Palma, led and directed a great literature and art magazine online, and I had landed in Mallorca for some time with my writing under his arm. Our friendship, which began my collaboration with Luke has been progressively extended to his books, mine, the last Thursday Toni Rigo in Literanta, the tapas, going out together in an anthology of Roman Piña and, with permission from Malene and Joachim, to confidence. Long time since I've resigned myself to let myself overwhelmed by the vitality of Inez, that seems endless and is a great encouragement. Now let me once again overwhelm with great pleasure by the narrative train Focus your eleven landscapes for Eros.

is very clear from the title of this volume much more important than love and sex in its various aspects is its landscape, that is, everything that surrounds them and prevent it from being a pure experience and unambiguous, the romantic style. Matute Agnes had already shown in Portrait with island (Tegueste: Baile del Sol, 2007) have been aware of an essentially relational and thus human nature conflictual. Love can not escape this problematic pattern, bounded by infinite edges, some of them hidden from our view and most of the sometimes painful and well beyond sweetened the design have grown both literature and film. The father Fulgencio, one of the characters that inhabit the book, is the wise statement that read: "there are no pure types. There are no strong men and weak men: there are different ways of combining strength with his own weakness. " Matute

That race is a writer of humor demonstrated that distill their stories and tends to set in intelligent irony and even sarcasm, according to a vision of life away from the naivete or idealism, its cosmopolitanism, which allows no geographical, cultural, sexual or professional interest is outside his narrator, and opening both stories respecting the limits of reality as possible and to those who, by their nature fantastic or dreamlike, require a healthy readjustment reader's imagination. The story seems to be always a challenge for Matute, and it shows the quality of the narrators proud.

Thus, we find in the book tales of intrigue, and, for Matute, the intrigue is eminently psychological. In "Work Bee" check the confused status of rejected love, an image as "I feel my heart open and goes inside a frog red" expresses the painful personal quagmire that is a guilty love but impossible to contain. In "Red and spicy "is explored, with total ease and from a voice politically incorrect, the role that memories play in the identity of individuals, and to what extent a state of oblivion is feared and desired at the same time. "Blooms" again explores the possibilities of game clues and unexpected outcomes, the recurring references to Agatha Christie are not random in this tale of jealousy and self doubt over ethical conventions.

"Twin Towers" takes the impact of an event that has marked generations-and now forms one of the metaphors of our time, to paraphrase a certain type of love apparently only departs from the romantic convention, but in this case abounds in self-denial, in the dignity and persistence beyond the illness and death. "A nice cocoon, meanwhile, demystifies the contemporary world of sex over the Internet. The complexity of treaty relations (deception, complexes, fears, social correction) moves to the virtual world and the comic details do not stop thinking about the confinement and isolation we leave a bitter aftertaste.

"in Lannemezan Odd" is the amazing story of a lonely woman who seeks the lost desire in a corner of the High Pyrenees, and would not hesitate to seduce anyone who crosses his path, "Panthers Wedding" is a window on the ambiguity melancholy, jealousy and love decompensated, "Peliculera!" records that love and hatred are closer to each other in what is sometimes assumed. Great field, "Signed in the Clouds" presents death as a female deceptively desirable. "Domino effect" is a wonderful story, with a precision and tenderness untold, expression of femininity amazing and very revealing. "Asaltacamas", finally, is a fun tale in which two lovers in search of a bed repeatedly denied there are paradoxical and subsequent appointments with a number of characters in literature and art universal. The link between them is their connection to a bed (voluntary or determined by the physical or mental), which slides and erotic material in the vital area of \u200b\u200bdisappointment.

are many aspects of love, all set in the same difficulty of providing a stable channel, serene, recognizable, clear, smooth and balanced. Matute Inés This book becomes, well, a very wise diagnosis of a disease that basically we knew but, still anchored century romantic conventions XIX, we did not dare to declare out loud. Given the inherent impossibility of a coherent discourse about love or from love, seem to propose these stories, we deal with their circumstances. Which is, I think, a great narrative point of view, and separate accounts, evidence of considerable intelligence.