EFECTO VIOLETA 2008

This novel is the Grand Adventure of an inert woman who reclaims her own soul.

After a long marriage, a loving and lucid woman finds herself dissatisfied with the promiscuous sexuality of her master-husband. Partner swaps and petit-bourgeois orgies feel to her like a misappropriation of love.

When, in the summer of her biography—a destiny in which she has been merely a bystander to a satyr—she realizes that her life is neither beautiful nor sacred, she decides to change: the passive, compliant woman transforms into a heroine condemned to the perpetual vertigo of solitude. Often, love is not about sharing but a viscous addiction, a long renunciation of one’s own dreams.

Often, to love is to immolate oneself in the fire others ignite. When the protagonist perceives her misery as punishment for a youthful mistake, she confronts her own emotional devastation and not only regains her dignity but is reborn, reconciling with the terrifying peace of the senses. Authentic life. Sofia is the exact negative of Madame Bovary, an anti-Karenina, walking the same path but in reverse.

Rarely has anyone achieved such a precise, and therefore heartrending, portrait of the abysses of a diminished woman’s soul. The reader holds in their hands one of those rare novels that submit to the absolute demand of capturing every detail of a living, breathing soul.

Love, life, children, pain, nostalgia, sin, atonement, and hope bubble forth from these pages like a gushing spring. It is a Grand Adventure and a theorem of loves that do not deserve the name.