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by Paula Klein (Author)
UNA PODEROSA NOVELA. UNA FASCINANTE UTOPÍA DE COMIENZOS DEL SIGLO XX
Por una autora revelación de la literatura latinoamericana, elogiada por la crítica y por escritoras como Clara Obligado, Ariana Harwicz o Marina Yuszczuk.
«Una de las novelas más interesantes que he leído este año .
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
By a new voice in Latin American literature hailed by critics and fellow authors such as Clara Obligado, Ariana Harwicz and Marina Yuszczuk. Verónica is a professor from Argentina living in Paris and in a career rut. A new mother, her unconditional love for her baby can't make up for the feeling that becoming a parent has effectively ended her freedom. She distracts herself by researching a subject she has considered turning into a book: the lives of a fascinating group of women who were the protagonists of a little-known episode in history. In the early twentieth century, Monte Verità in Switzerland was home to an alternative, back-to-nature community that espoused trends that were ahead of their time, including feminism, sexual freedom, polyamory and pacifism. The women who founded it were in search of a utopia; hippies decades before the 1960s, they devoted themselves to art, dance and literature, becoming known as the Witches of Monte Verità. To continue her research and find an escape from domestic routine, Verónica invites two friends to join her on a trip to the mountains of Ascona, the site of the experimental community. There, she makes a series of discoveries that cause her to reframe her own live. A combination of fiction and essay, The Witches of Monte Verità interweaves the stories of women who, while separated by time and geography, strive for the same ideal and reflect on the constraints of love and motherhood. This is a passionate novel about daring to be free, and how lessons from the past can help make this possible.
Author Biography
Paula Klein (Buenos Aires, 1986) es doctora en literatura comparada, licenciada en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y máster de la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Reside en París y ha enseñado literatura latinoamericana y comparada en distintas universidades de Francia. Desde el año 2022, es profesora titular de la Université Clermont Auvergne. Sus investigaciones se centran en la literatura documental y los vínculos entre ficción y no ficción en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea. Su primera novela, La luz de una estrella muerta, fue publicada en 2021. El mismo año, Classiques Garnier editó su ensayo Petites mémoires et écriture du quotidien. Cortázar, Perec et leurs échos contemporains (Premio a la edición PSL-Translitterae). Su segunda novela es Las brujas de Monte Verità (Lumen, 2023).
