This evening at 7 p.m., Casa de México presents four Mexican women writers who, whether by birth, exile, decision or marriage, will reflect on their most recent novels, first published in Mexico, and the creative act that the country they consider their own has inspired in them.
The protagonists of their works are characters in direct correlation with Mexican history and reality, which will allow an approach to the virtues and problems of a vast, different, fascinating and undoubtedly inspiring country.
In the case of Fuego que no muere (Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli – in the photo), it is Tina Modotti and Vittorio Vidali, two Italians who influenced the artistic and political life of post-revolutionary Mexico, as well as the Spanish Civil War; the daughter of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma, who was related to the greats of Spain in the case of La otra Isabel (Laura Martínez Belli); the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, in Somoza (Ligia Urroz), who forced the author of this novel-testimony, and many other nationals, into Mexican exile and, more recently – the dictator who replaced him – into Spanish exile; and one of the most controversial criminals of the 1940s, the midwife who performed abortions in a residential area of Mexico City, in The Inheritance (Verónica E. Llaca).
The four writers take part in the meeting, moderated by Laura García Arroyo, host of La dichosa palabra, the successful literary talk show on Canal 22 (Mexico).
