The reality that Fernanda Melchor captures for us is one of poverty and merciless exploitation.įernanda Melchor chose to fictionalize actual events for her own protection. This cultivated world is nowhere to be found here. And yet they consider themselves as highly cultivated.
They do not depend on the people who are their consumers not to die. And world markets do not depend on the people who are their consumers to have culture.
It is-rather coincidentally-the centrifugal forces of the global oil industry to which the characters in the novel are subjected in their village. Moreover: it is a highly developed, highly complex civilization that has pushed people back into this pre-civilization state and keeps them trapped there. They have no way of liberating themselves and living with dignity. They limp after their urges, not wanting to go where their urges already are, and yet they must, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.įernanda Melchor’s fictional characters have no access to culture, to education, no access to the money that could provide both. The characters in the novel are at the mercy of their feelings like the weather, they work through them, they yearn to get away, escape their village, escape themselves. All feelings, all emotions are equally violent, love is violent, fear is violent, murderous desire is violent, and fear is behind love’s transformation into murderous desire. The plot is set in the twenty-first century, in an archaic world of the kind that must have given rise to the Stoa, the hope of freedom from passions, of serenity as the basis of culture. A witch resides there onto whom villagers project their fears and hopes-until she is found murdered. This novel-her third-is set in the fictional village of La Matosa near Veracruz. When the trained journalist decided not to research a murder case in the Mexican province in order to avoid exposing herself to danger in a region dominated by drug producers, this caution became one of the most striking novels in contemporary literature: Hurricane Season. "Temporada de huracanes / Hurricane Season (Spanish Edition) The first thing Its important to do with any e-book is analysis your subject matter.Author Fernanda Melchor, born in 1982, is a native of the Mexican state of Veracruz.
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