I Follow The Voices of Soft, Quiet Goddesses

by Hugo Roca Joglar

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There is an idea by D.H. Lawrence: 'we are the secret dreams of our grandmothers.' But not the dreams they openly accepted and pursued, rather the secret dreams: those they denied, and merely thinking about them plunged them into fear and guilt.

This Hugo Roca's definitive exploration of this concept: It begins with the death of his grandmother and ends with the imminent birth of his daughter, and in between, he narrates his struggle to establish a different flow, where through a process of re-educating himself (which leads to confront the most horrible demons of his lineage), he seeks to stop lying and to have no more secrets: to decipher his hidden dreams so as not to pass on the curse of embodying them to his daughter. A narrative that redefines parenthood and embarks on a profound quest for new forms of beauty.

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  • This book is aimed at demanding readers who go beyond traditional narratives and seek disruptive, but also intimate stories

Author Biography









Hugo Roca Joglar (1986) is one of the most recognized and original Mexican writers of his generation.


He won the Bellas Artes Novel Prize in 2021 and the National Journalism Award in the "Chronicle" category in 2014. His writing, marked by autobiographical content, is characterized by its free movement between genres and its creation of atmospheres with exhaustive sensuality, where sound exploration is always both an end and a beginning.


The magazine La Tempestad named him "Emerging Writer of the Year 2019" for his debut book, "Días de jengibre" (FETA; 2018), and Time Out highlighted his collection of chronicles "El ajedrez es un juego tan siniestro y personal" (Libros del perro; 2020) as one of the "10 best books of 2020".










 

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Bibliographic Information

  • Orginal LanguageSpanish
  • Pages105
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleSigo Voces de Silenciosas Diosas Suaves
  • IllustrationIllustrated by the author

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