00:00If you like the poetry, leave it to the end of this video to see if you already know the
00:03author of which we are going to talk about.
00:05I'm going to read one of those poems, to see if you recognize it.
00:07Su sexo es un panal, donde mil abejas laboriosas liban una miel que se me queda entre los dedos.
00:13This poem is called Panal and is part of the book titled Estrategias del Deseo, by the author uruguaya Cristina
00:19Perigossi.
00:20And I brought it today because I don't know if it's the same thing to me,
00:22and it's that I'm always looking for new authors who talk freely about their desire and sexuality.
00:27If you don't know it, here we will tell you briefly.
00:30Perigossi is a writer and poet uruguay that was born in 1941.
00:35And although she started studying biology, she ended up graduating in comparative literature, journalism, activism and even translation.
00:44In fact, she published her first novel titled Viviendo, in 1963.
00:49Of Perigossi we can say many things, such as the fact that she has written more than a dozen books,
00:54and has won important awards such as the American American Prize in 2020 and the Cervantes Prize in 2021.
01:02She also became part of the famous period called the boom of the Latin American novel,
01:07of which also made authors such as Elena Garro, Clarice Lispector and María Luisa Bombardo.
01:13But of course, the most common is that when we talk about this period,
01:15we mention authors such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and even Gabriel García Márquez.
01:20But, to understand better the story of this author, we have to take into account that she practically lived two
01:25dictators,
01:26the of her native country, Uruguay, of which she had to exiliar in 1972,
01:30and the of the country that she received, Spain, which lived in France between 1936 and 1978.
01:38That's why it is especially important what Perigossi did in her poems and in her novels,
01:42because although in some of them wrote stories of heterosexual couples,
01:46in some of them aborded the sexuality and the sexual diversity,
01:50even talking stories of homosexuals in ways more explicit than others.
01:54Let's say that during centuries, women were considered only the object of desire of men,
02:00incapaces of taking decisions about our own bodies and sexuality,
02:04even though we still are.
02:06However, through her voice, Perigossi encarna narradoras that are not objects of desire,
02:11but that they are themselves who want and who take decisions about their own body.
02:16This debate is also one of the best films that have been made during the last few years,
02:21and it is about The Retreat of a woman in llamas, from the French director Céline Sciamma,
02:25which, if you haven't seen, I highly recommend you to watch it.
02:28Al termino de las dictaduras, Perigossi, obviously,
02:31siguió escribiendo y llegó a narrar con mucha más libertad historias que hablan sobre
02:35la sorpresa y fascinación que a ella le producen el cuerpo y la sexualidad de las mujeres.
02:40Esto puede evidenciarse en libros como Estrategias del Deseo,
02:43del que hace parte el poema que les leímos al principio de este video.
02:46Si no conocían a Cristina Perigossi, cuéntenos qué tal les pareció en los comentarios,
02:50y si quieren recomendarnos a otras autoras,
02:52pueden dejarnos sus nombres para que hablemos de ellas en una próxima oportunidad.
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