Balzac said he wanted to achieve in literature what Napoleon in politics. Not surprising therefore that a contemporary author such an ideal feed, although it seems excessive in light of a time when very few writers require excellence over the commercial effect, "but above all, says Beatriz Rivas, I have that ideological basis, all studies did Napoleon to conquer a village (to study the Quran before coming to the Egyptians), and that wonderful balance between reason and imagination and, most importantly, Napoleon planned his battles but he was prepared for the unexpected and improvisations, usually were great. That would be great literature. The author who wants to write like a Napoleon has to accept the changes that will be asking the same novel. "
Born in Mexico City on May 9, 1965, three days before the death anniversary the great deer, Beatriz Rivas was an amazing girl mint green eyes with black iris and olive skin that filled notebooks and notebooks of poetry, "with a scrawled, poems, games and horrible about gardens," he says. Always got 10 in literature. In high school fell in love with Napoleon through the readings that love and consolidated school at age fourteen when he first visited the tomb of the Invalides, in Paris, and began preparing, unwittingly, to write what would be its second novel Bitter Wind (Alfaguara, 2006), through the character of Miss Betsy Halcombe (1802-1871 or 73), a teenager from the same age as Beatriz then daughter of the guards of Napoleon during his exile on the British island of St. Helena, it establishes a conversation with her lover. As an adult regularly attend workshops Valadés Edmundo Guillermo Samperio, Humberto Guzman and Miguel Cossio Woodward. Ensures, however, have not achieved anything "publishable" until 1994, nearly thirty years. Hence jumped rashly to the drafting of an ambitious first novel, The hour without God (Alfaguara, 2003 / bookmark, 2006). No more likely than the dictates of his heart and the need to talk through Lou Andreas Salome, Alma Mahler and Hannah Arendt, she devises a first novel where does light and surprising, says the back well, "let us look into the eyes of three women immortal. And they look back at us. "Broadly said Beatriz their need to revive these three women:" For many years I wanted to say something and not know how, so I started looking for a character that would allow me to speak in freedom " . Originally focused its expectation in Mexican women, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Tina Modotti, Nahui Olin, Frida Kahlo ... but it happens, the characters were going out to him, without looking for them. Lou was the "featured" a psychiatrist friend, Alma saw an exhibition of portraits of Gustav Klimt, in Vienna and around the corner waiting for her in a bookstore the book Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. Hannah discovered the book of his correspondence with Martin Heidegger during a routine visit to the library of the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he took an MA in Modern Literature. The biggest challenge involves bringing in a novel was to give them a voice and a very specific intelligence and find a junction. It was here that knocked at his door Dr. Ponty, a Mexican male throughout his life coincides with the three ... sleeps with all three. This was possible thanks to Lou and Alma agreed in Vienna at the same time (late nineteenth, early twentieth century), with Alma Lou was young when ripe. Also, a mature Alma matches on the same stage with Hannah, although unknown, the latter university. So, Daniel Ponty is the first adult sexual experience with Lou, is consolidated with Alma and the crisis have grown man into the arms of an inexperienced Hannah. Whether it is male and as such store in his house to a young woman, Monama, who he says has the three "S" necessary for a wife (obedient, silent and suffering), it becomes, at once, as odious but interesting point of view that brings about these three women released and cool. "I wanted to write a novel, not a biography," says Bea. I chose a male character because they were too many women. She wanted someone who could fall for the three and some readers thought it was my grandfather (Daniel dictates his memoirs to his granddaughter). However, it is totally made up, not even understand where I took the name. I became a doctor because he was the only profession that would allow him to meet all three. And there were Mexican because I needed one ... even a Mexican with one foot in Europe and one in their homeland. "Daniel Ponty assumes the personality of the abortion doctor who assists Lou; meets Alma playing the piano and visiting teacher at the University of Marburg, where Hannah consoles of his stormy relationship with a married professor, namely Heidegger. Great part of the story is structured through letters written by women themselves, a completely invented by the author, some transcribed verbatim and others, mixing fiction and reality. Most striking: in one of his letters to Daniel lit, Lou says he read Sor Juana.
All three were prolific muses: Lou Andreas inspired by Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra (although finished hating), Hannah, Being and Time Heidegger (who in turn was hardworking student of Nietzsche's work) and Alma much of the work Gustav Mahler, her first husband, and the painter Gustav Klimt. The last gave up his activities as a composer for the egocentric Mahler wanted to be the only genius in your home. "A man in love is always in hell, especially if you are in love with you," says the painter Oscar Kokoschka a dummy Alma has created in his image and likeness to feel that it is still (p. 187). Beatriz Rivas Accomplished three individual and unique personalities?, Because they are not the same the rebel Lou, the volatile and passionate Alma Hannah. It could be argued the possibility that Lou, Alma and Hannah had a male lover Daniel insufferable as Ponty, whose vision of these three remarkable women, which undoubtedly frighten and complexed, they end up falling in unintended humor. Lou says on page 79: "(...) Escribir es un arte, por lo tanto, una manera de preservar el mundo infantil en el que todo se entrelaza con todo. El ser humano que no es artista, es un pobre hombre.”
En Viento amargo, Beatriz aporta una nueva versión de Napoleón cuya originalidad radica en una doble visión femenina sobre este personaje, célebre entre otras cosas por su misoginia: la de miss Betsy y la de la propia narradora, que se involucra con la acción desarrollada en Santa Helena entre 1815 y 1821, entre otras cosas, para justificar las licencias poéticas que, como todo novelista, se toma con los acontecimientos históricos, quizá porque siendo esposa de un historiador, Francisco Martín Moreno, es sumamente respetuosa de la verdad historical and scientific, "His Highness lights a bit my doubts when I said in my ear:" The genuine truths are difficult to obtain in history. Too often historical truth, as claimed and everyone is eager to claim, is just a word. Can not exist even in the time that events occur in the heat of passions in conflict. So what is historical truth? Facula on which it is agreed, as Voltaire said very correctly. "(P. 75). Significantly tempered by the defeat and betrayal of those who called themselves his friends, Napoleon takes on the sensitivity needed to open and convert it to Miss Betsy a repository of memories and life lessons that later turn over in his memoirs, for example: "You can not give in to mediocrity. If something is not right, we must repeat. Rosseau rewrote his Nouvelle Heloise seven times ... "(p. 59). Beatriz is considered an atheist, "because there is no scientific evidence of the existence of God (or any god), but believes in the power of fiction and the stories it invents and reconfigures the literature", but when you reflect on Napoleon on this subject, says he has not ever doubted the existence of God because "even though my reason is incapable of understanding, my intuition convinces me of its existence." (P. 90)
Although we always knew that would be a writer, Beatriz was delayed somewhat by uncertainty and superficially addressed journalism but as she says, journalism also brought him closer to his goal. Journalist has never been considered in the strict sense, despite his impressive resume: he worked in Imevisión and Radio Network, respectively as editorial coordinator of special events alongside Jose Gutierrez Vivo. He was executive editor of the journal Millennium, participated in several projects with Adela Micha, and an adviser in communication Jorge G. Castañeda. Never put aside the literary establishment, with co-author of three books of short stories: The women of the Tower (1996, translated into English in 1997), Poison that fascinates (1997) and happened in a neighborhood (2000). "As soon I came to write for Millennium, I feel I won the fiction," she says I'm very bad journalist. "Secure but do not have favorite authors favorite books, however, during our chat, there are four names that are repeated strongly: Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar Elena Poniatowska. Currently, Beatriz works with an idea arises from seeking his own name into the Google Internet search and discovered that there were plenty of Beatrice Rivas, including a body builder, a porn actress and a woman killed by 26 bullets, so you type a novel on several characters who share the same name but different destinations live.
Born in Mexico City on May 9, 1965, three days before the death anniversary the great deer, Beatriz Rivas was an amazing girl mint green eyes with black iris and olive skin that filled notebooks and notebooks of poetry, "with a scrawled, poems, games and horrible about gardens," he says. Always got 10 in literature. In high school fell in love with Napoleon through the readings that love and consolidated school at age fourteen when he first visited the tomb of the Invalides, in Paris, and began preparing, unwittingly, to write what would be its second novel Bitter Wind (Alfaguara, 2006), through the character of Miss Betsy Halcombe (1802-1871 or 73), a teenager from the same age as Beatriz then daughter of the guards of Napoleon during his exile on the British island of St. Helena, it establishes a conversation with her lover. As an adult regularly attend workshops Valadés Edmundo Guillermo Samperio, Humberto Guzman and Miguel Cossio Woodward. Ensures, however, have not achieved anything "publishable" until 1994, nearly thirty years. Hence jumped rashly to the drafting of an ambitious first novel, The hour without God (Alfaguara, 2003 / bookmark, 2006). No more likely than the dictates of his heart and the need to talk through Lou Andreas Salome, Alma Mahler and Hannah Arendt, she devises a first novel where does light and surprising, says the back well, "let us look into the eyes of three women immortal. And they look back at us. "Broadly said Beatriz their need to revive these three women:" For many years I wanted to say something and not know how, so I started looking for a character that would allow me to speak in freedom " . Originally focused its expectation in Mexican women, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Tina Modotti, Nahui Olin, Frida Kahlo ... but it happens, the characters were going out to him, without looking for them. Lou was the "featured" a psychiatrist friend, Alma saw an exhibition of portraits of Gustav Klimt, in Vienna and around the corner waiting for her in a bookstore the book Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. Hannah discovered the book of his correspondence with Martin Heidegger during a routine visit to the library of the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he took an MA in Modern Literature. The biggest challenge involves bringing in a novel was to give them a voice and a very specific intelligence and find a junction. It was here that knocked at his door Dr. Ponty, a Mexican male throughout his life coincides with the three ... sleeps with all three. This was possible thanks to Lou and Alma agreed in Vienna at the same time (late nineteenth, early twentieth century), with Alma Lou was young when ripe. Also, a mature Alma matches on the same stage with Hannah, although unknown, the latter university. So, Daniel Ponty is the first adult sexual experience with Lou, is consolidated with Alma and the crisis have grown man into the arms of an inexperienced Hannah. Whether it is male and as such store in his house to a young woman, Monama, who he says has the three "S" necessary for a wife (obedient, silent and suffering), it becomes, at once, as odious but interesting point of view that brings about these three women released and cool. "I wanted to write a novel, not a biography," says Bea. I chose a male character because they were too many women. She wanted someone who could fall for the three and some readers thought it was my grandfather (Daniel dictates his memoirs to his granddaughter). However, it is totally made up, not even understand where I took the name. I became a doctor because he was the only profession that would allow him to meet all three. And there were Mexican because I needed one ... even a Mexican with one foot in Europe and one in their homeland. "Daniel Ponty assumes the personality of the abortion doctor who assists Lou; meets Alma playing the piano and visiting teacher at the University of Marburg, where Hannah consoles of his stormy relationship with a married professor, namely Heidegger. Great part of the story is structured through letters written by women themselves, a completely invented by the author, some transcribed verbatim and others, mixing fiction and reality. Most striking: in one of his letters to Daniel lit, Lou says he read Sor Juana.
All three were prolific muses: Lou Andreas inspired by Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra (although finished hating), Hannah, Being and Time Heidegger (who in turn was hardworking student of Nietzsche's work) and Alma much of the work Gustav Mahler, her first husband, and the painter Gustav Klimt. The last gave up his activities as a composer for the egocentric Mahler wanted to be the only genius in your home. "A man in love is always in hell, especially if you are in love with you," says the painter Oscar Kokoschka a dummy Alma has created in his image and likeness to feel that it is still (p. 187). Beatriz Rivas Accomplished three individual and unique personalities?, Because they are not the same the rebel Lou, the volatile and passionate Alma Hannah. It could be argued the possibility that Lou, Alma and Hannah had a male lover Daniel insufferable as Ponty, whose vision of these three remarkable women, which undoubtedly frighten and complexed, they end up falling in unintended humor. Lou says on page 79: "(...) Escribir es un arte, por lo tanto, una manera de preservar el mundo infantil en el que todo se entrelaza con todo. El ser humano que no es artista, es un pobre hombre.”
En Viento amargo, Beatriz aporta una nueva versión de Napoleón cuya originalidad radica en una doble visión femenina sobre este personaje, célebre entre otras cosas por su misoginia: la de miss Betsy y la de la propia narradora, que se involucra con la acción desarrollada en Santa Helena entre 1815 y 1821, entre otras cosas, para justificar las licencias poéticas que, como todo novelista, se toma con los acontecimientos históricos, quizá porque siendo esposa de un historiador, Francisco Martín Moreno, es sumamente respetuosa de la verdad historical and scientific, "His Highness lights a bit my doubts when I said in my ear:" The genuine truths are difficult to obtain in history. Too often historical truth, as claimed and everyone is eager to claim, is just a word. Can not exist even in the time that events occur in the heat of passions in conflict. So what is historical truth? Facula on which it is agreed, as Voltaire said very correctly. "(P. 75). Significantly tempered by the defeat and betrayal of those who called themselves his friends, Napoleon takes on the sensitivity needed to open and convert it to Miss Betsy a repository of memories and life lessons that later turn over in his memoirs, for example: "You can not give in to mediocrity. If something is not right, we must repeat. Rosseau rewrote his Nouvelle Heloise seven times ... "(p. 59). Beatriz is considered an atheist, "because there is no scientific evidence of the existence of God (or any god), but believes in the power of fiction and the stories it invents and reconfigures the literature", but when you reflect on Napoleon on this subject, says he has not ever doubted the existence of God because "even though my reason is incapable of understanding, my intuition convinces me of its existence." (P. 90)
Although we always knew that would be a writer, Beatriz was delayed somewhat by uncertainty and superficially addressed journalism but as she says, journalism also brought him closer to his goal. Journalist has never been considered in the strict sense, despite his impressive resume: he worked in Imevisión and Radio Network, respectively as editorial coordinator of special events alongside Jose Gutierrez Vivo. He was executive editor of the journal Millennium, participated in several projects with Adela Micha, and an adviser in communication Jorge G. Castañeda. Never put aside the literary establishment, with co-author of three books of short stories: The women of the Tower (1996, translated into English in 1997), Poison that fascinates (1997) and happened in a neighborhood (2000). "As soon I came to write for Millennium, I feel I won the fiction," she says I'm very bad journalist. "Secure but do not have favorite authors favorite books, however, during our chat, there are four names that are repeated strongly: Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar Elena Poniatowska. Currently, Beatriz works with an idea arises from seeking his own name into the Google Internet search and discovered that there were plenty of Beatrice Rivas, including a body builder, a porn actress and a woman killed by 26 bullets, so you type a novel on several characters who share the same name but different destinations live.
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