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Reseña: Norma, Sofi Oksanen (Salamandra, 2020)

Tenía muchas ganas de leer a Sofi Oksanen por muchos motivos, destacando entre ellos las ganas de conocer a una escritora que destaca en la narrativa finlandesa actual por su intensidad y por su maestría para unir en una historia intriga, realismo mágico y crítica social. Norma ha sido mi primera lectura y he comprobado con ella que es cierto lo que dicen de su genialidad para escribir, realmente me cautivo su narrativa tan insinuante, tan delicadamente sugerente para abordar temas duros, muy duros.

Cuando termine de leer el libro me quedé pensando que no debería perderme Purga, la novela que recibió el aplauso unánime de lectores y crítica. ¿La habéis leído?

La ficha técncia del libro la podemos consultar en la página web de megustaleer.





Argumento

Cuando el cuerpo de Anita Ross es encontrado en el metro de Helsinki, todos los temores se confirman: la mujer acaba de tirarse a las vías. Pero Norma, su única hija, se muestra incrédula, ya que madre jamás la hubiera dejado sola con su secreto: sus cabellos viven, experimentan emociones, cobran impulso y crecen tan rápidamente que hay que cortarlos varias veces al día. Dispuesta a todo con tal de saber la verdad, la joven decide reconstruir los últimos días de su madre, ofreciéndose incluso en el salón de belleza donde ella trabajaba, uno más de los negocios de un clan que también trafica con vientres de alquiler. Acechada por el pasado y atrapada en una maraña de engaños y explotación, Norma deberá luchar por esclarecer los hechos y alcanzar la libertad.

Con una prosa imaginativa, sugerente y poética, Sofi Oksanen urde una trama inquietante sobre las redes mafiosas que se aprovechan de las mujeres, en una novela radicalmente original que va marcando su propio camino a medida que Norma Ross se sumerge en el pasado en busca de su futuro.




Mi opinión personal (sin destripes)


Con Norma he disfrutado muchísimo de la narración, del modo de combinar intriga y fantasía para denunciar duros realismos que existen en nuestra sociedad. Realismos dolorosos y oscuros que todos sabemos que existen y que todos evitamos mirar de frente.


La fantasía de esta historia consiste en la utilización de un realismo mágico, mostrando lo irreal o extraño como algo común, algo cotidiano. Tratado por la autora con elegancia y sensibilidad.


Norma es mágica por tener un pelo mágico, un pelo que crece, crece y crece... un pelo que siente, un pelo que reacciona ante todo tipo de emociones. Un pelo que produce en su dueña un olfato también mágico, detectando en las personas cercanas y no tan cercanas las verdades y las mentiras, detectando comidas, bebidas, medicinas... e incluso enfermedades y muerte. No cuento más sobre este realismo mágico para no destriparos la novela, pero he tenido que hacerlo para definir a Norma, ya que estas condiciones ayudan y también entrañan dificultades y riesgos graves en la vida de Norma.


«Distinguió los olores de los últimos seis meses de su vida: sus amantes ocasionales, la resaca del Primero de Mayo y las alteraciones en la estructura capilar provocadas por la absorción de los complementos nutricionales. El mal ambiente en su trabajo había perjudicado su cabello, pero a partir de marzo apenas podía percibirse. Su madre había sido hábil. Norma se había convertido en el equivalente a la mejor gallina Leghorn: los cambios en la alimentación habían conseguido un producto capilar perfecto»


Oksanen administra muy bien estos elementos mágicos con la intriga y me ha gustado como hace viajar a Norma al pasado en busca de verdades ocultas en su familia y en la sociedad para hacerla sentir menos bicho raro, para hacerla entender y disfrutar de su especialidad. Y este viaje al pasado lo realiza Norma al indagar e investigar ella solita sobre la muerte de su madre, no cree que sea un suicidio, cree que hay algo turbio. Y de este modo la autora combina la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social al denunciar con su historia una trama mafiosa de tráfico de personas para gestación subrogada, vientres de alquiler, venta de niños, industria estética.


Esta novela de intriga es muy particular, dejando fuera todo lo que me ha gustado hasta ahora tengo que señalar que me ha sorprendido mucho la delicadeza de la escritura, nada esperada en una novela que encierra suspense e investigación. Imagino que esta prosa tan poética viene reclamada por el realismo mágico que adereza toda la historia. Y os aseguro que si al principio de la lectura, por no esperar esta escritura, me despiste un poco luego la saboreé y disfruté muchísimo.


Me impactó la historia, me impactó su realismo mágico y me impactó su escritura. Y terminé adorando la libertad narrativa de Sofi Oksanen. Qué maravilla de ambigüedad poética para conseguir objetivos bien perseguidos por Norma y por la autora.


Os recomiendo leer Norma de Sofi Oksanen para que os deleitéis con una lectura diferente, especial. Una lectura de intriga y de secretos familiares con unos toques mágicos que adoptaréis como reales sin pensarlo y que sin pensarlo también os dejaréis acariciar por su bella escritura. 





Sofi Oksanen nació en Jyväskylä, Finlandia, en 1977, y estudió dramaturgia en la Academia de Teatro de Helsinki. Si sus dos primeras novelas, Las vacas de Stalin y Baby Jane, catapultaron a la joven Oksanen a la élite de los nuevos narradores finlandeses, con Purga se ha consolidado como uno de los más interesantes y leídos nuevos escritores contemporáneos. Purga nació como una obra de teatro, representada con gran éxito en el Teatro Nacional de Helsinki en 2007. Posteriormente, Oksanen desarrolló los personajes hasta convertir la historia en una novela que, además de obtener un éxito de ventas arrollador en los países nórdicos y en Francia, ha sido reconocida con los premios más importantes de Finlandia, a los que se sumaron los prestigiosos Nordic Council Literature Prize, Prix Femina Étranger y el Premio a la Mejor Novela Europea del Año.

Visitad su web para ampliar información: http://sofioksanen.com/


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50 comentarios:

  1. ¡Hola, Carmen! Me gustan mucho este estilo de lecturas...Además, me parece tan interesante la trama, llena de intriga y magia, una muy buena combinación … Gracias por la reseña. ¡Un besito!

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  2. ¡Hola!
    No he leído nada de esta autora y la parte de intriga me llama bastante, me lo apunto.
    Besitos :)

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  3. ¡Hola Carmen! Pues me dejas con muchísimas ganas de conocer a esta autora de la que ya he oído hablar maravillas, destacando de ella lo que tú destacas. Me apetece mucho leer algo de ella. Puede que no tarde mucho
    Besos

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  4. Tengo en pendientes los libros de esta autora, pero nunca me he animado a hacerme con alguno y leerlo. Es de esos pendientes que están en el limbo del olvido. Igual empiezo por este por ser el último. Tiene buena pinta.
    Un beso.

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  5. No he leído nada de la autora y le tengo muchas ganas.
    Besos

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  6. Purga es excepcional Carmen, uno de esos libros que tengo de los más valorados de mi biblioteca personal.
    Un beso

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  7. Muy interesante y para tener en cuenta!!!

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  8. ¡Hola, Carmen!
    Interesante reseña, no conocía a la autora y me dejas con muchas ganas de conocer su maravillosa pluma.
    Las lecturas diferentes hacen falta para salir un poco de nuestra zona de confort, así que apunto tu sugerencia y espero poder leerla pronto.
    Gracias por tu reseña y feliz fin de semana ;)
    Abrazos.

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  9. No suelo leer libros de intriga, pero el párrafo que has citado me ha encantado. Y el hecho de que incluya realismo mágico de un modo tan bonito creo que me podría hacer disfrutar mucho de este libro.
    Me lo apunto por si llegado el momento me apetece leer algo así.
    Un beso

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