Claire-Louise Bennet: “En la experiencia amorosa debería estar la diferencia, el azar y el riesgo, algo casi imposible en un mundo de ‘apps’ de ligar”
La fascinantemente obsesiva narradora británica del momento vuelve con la novela ‘Besos, chao’
Claire-Louise Bennet, the British-Irish author, reflects on the nature of love and attraction in her latest novel, Besos, chao. She believes that love should offer a sense of difference, chance, and risk – elements that are difficult to find in the world of dating apps. In her book, she wonders how love places you in front of a mirror, showing you things you would never admit about yourself.
To reach such a state, she says, one must embrace the mystery of what attracts them to someone else when nothing is prearranged beforehand.
Bennet, who lives in Galway, Ireland, works from a large table cluttered with notebooks and crystal balls. She even keeps a glass penguin nearby. She often sips tea from a cup, occasionally revealing a bit of leftover Yogi Choco. The author's narrative always seems to be in someone else's mind, obsessively searching for an exit or trying to find her place in the world. Love, for Bennet, could be seen as a kind of compass, but she also senses that we gradually lose its guidance over time.
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