Aleksandar Tišma (1924–2003)

My first reading of this elegiac novel happned as I was housesitting of sorts for my friend Roger. This was during his brief period between marriages, houses and, apparently, outlooks on life. The issues are universal; in the Lager, survival was random, not a merit. It was a few years later that I bought my own copy at Square Books and read it again. Strange, I also bought Chabon's Final Solution while there.

This book I have read a long time ago. I know that I found it very impressive. I am scared to read it again for I remember it had several scenes which were really hard to read.

Novi Sad, o cualquier ciudad empobrecida por los estragos de la postguerra, constituye el marco a A las que amamos, un turbador relato sobre el mundo de la prostiución que, bajo la mirada sobria y no exenta de ternura de Aleksandar Tisma, desvela sus interioridades y rutinas. Sin pretensiones morales, sin frivolidad, la novela explora la dimensión social del deseo, su oscuro poder, encarnado en la imagen de Beba que, mientras medita cómo reconducirá sus relaciones con un antiguo amante, show more siente que su cuerpo ?es mejor y más fuerte, y merecedor de esos seductores materiales que lo ciñen, y está resuelta a conquistar los derechos que corresponden a semejante cuerpo?. show less