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The Indefinable Self Living The Mystery
Aurora Venturini broke into the horizons of Argentinian literature at 85 years old by winning a prize called “New Novel”. But who was she, before? Why didn’t we know about her? Possessing an unrepeatable style, far from the literary circuits of the time, Venturini cultivated a mysterious life between her hometown, La Plata, and her travels to Europe in search of an upset. In both interviews and fiction she built a fabulous and misguiding biography that includes fake dates of birth and death.
Liliana Viola, chosen by the same author as the albacea of her work, undertakes the search for her infinite truths through interviews to those who knew her and worked with her, via confessions and unpublished manuscripts. Appearing here as the victim of the Infamous Decade, the young woman in love with an impossible man, the pioneer of psychology, Evita Peronist, the eccentric teacher, the wife but never a mother. This is not “myself”, it’s a literary biography that reads as one of Aurora Venturini’s best novels.
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… (Jung) realized how much we have lost by neglecting our inner world. How dangerously one-sided we have become in ignoring our intuitive and instinctive selves.
— Laurens van der Post
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