“Your girl” by Emmanuelle Rey, an intimate and current French work with an “age-gap” about first false loves.

This website begins the year with a novel of French origin that has been recently translated by the division of the DNX publishing house in Spain to the delight of readers looking for a intimate work, age-gap and with reference to first loves. Honestly, when it comes to talking about love (good or bad), I prefer our neighboring country to do it. France does not write about love, France dissects it as if it were in a life or death situation. In the French literature that I have read, love is always at risk of farewell, but that does not mean it stops being the most beautiful (and traumatic) thing in the world.

Your girl of Emmanuelle Rey It is read with the swimsuit on, the diving goggles and the memories of adolescence. With an aftertaste of Lolita, but to a suffering Lolita, and with her nostrils full of chlorine. She is a short novel, intimateof direct sentences, without much adornment, and very French style. It happens in Marseillesin Paris and in a sad and gray city, the author’s invention. It is your novel ally for an afternoon of reading with a reflection that could well be in the first person.

Judith is a minor and he is 32 years old. For this reason, the work is conceived, mainly, as a age-gap. I am very attracted to stories where relationships are built on a significant age jump. I think that the dynamics that can be studied within them are very interesting. Also the morals that they can leave us. The one of Your girl de Rey is a harsh conclusion, but with a huge evolutionary arc for both the reader and the protagonist.

Judith is a teenager very cultured and mature. There are several literary, cinematographic and cultural references that they leave us between the pages. However, this maturity of hers does not save her from falling into the sharp claws of love-drama. On the contrary, it seems that precisely This intellectual level and this maturational difference with respect to her peers is what makes her get stuck in a tragicomedy., perhaps, due to the search for the romantic ideal of art and culture where without suffering, sometimes, it does not seem like there is love either. Yes, Judith wants to smoke at the window of a Parisian apartment, like a late-night Holly, while she lives in the love chaos of supposedly great stories. That’s why she convinces and justifies the 32-year-old, cultured, somewhat attractive guy with intermittent attention that all the red flags that teaches (and that begins to put the reader in a bad mood) are normal things in a relationship.

Bravo to Emmanuelle because she has dissected (like a good Frenchwoman) all these details and more than one person can identify their own relational process in this short, well-written and supremely quality story, which has left us in Your girl. I also think that she doesn’t put makeup on it at any time. Neither It’s not that it gives a completely happy ending either.. You already know that French literature is very ambiguous about this, I once read that if you want to be a good Parisian, you have to be, at the very least, a melancholic girl. But I prefer that you draw your own conclusions about the closing of the work.

If I had to summarize Your girl of Emmanuelle Rey In a sentence, it would be one taken from the text itself:

«-Are you coming or am I going?

I’m going.”

Your girl of Emmanuelle Rey It is a short, intimate work, about a unbalanced love dynamic between two people of very different ages where one of them is the one who always “goes”. It is about the painful process of realizing it, of not being able to do anything to continue trapped in that spiral (by choice, which is the worst) and of that aura that hovers over the tragic stories where you suffer for love. There are also reflections between the lines like the one I mentioned a little above, like culture or intellectual preparation, as well as maturity, growing faster than the rest, does not always protect you from other types of situations that consist of a purely personal process.. A blue story, like swimming pools in summer, with the smell of chlorine, and liquid, like the wound that oozes, especially if you are too young. Because I’ve gone over this, but the French landscape setting complements Judith’s aquatic setting magnificently: the swimming. But since I’m saying goodbye now, I’ll leave you swimming with her…

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