Elena Garro's first works, written in the last years of the 50s, as well as her journalistic works made in the previous decade, show deep feelings of the life of a woman who She was looking to build her own path in the world of letters, but without stifling her husband's career.
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The memories of the future and other of his works
“I started writing because I was in Berna very sick and I remembered my childhood. I wrote then The memories of the future. I was going to burn it in a stove but Helena and Paco, her cousin, stopped me. She took her and ran to lock himself with the novel in a room, ”the writer once said. Helena Paz had rescued from the flames of fire that has been considered the seed of magical realism and that It would become the most praised work of Garro.
The town of Ixtepec takes voice and becomes the narrator of a tragic love and desire story, but also of cruelty and jealousy whose context the cristero war, one of the most bloody episodes in Mexican history. Thus arose The memories of the futurea novel that He was deserving of the Xavier Villaurrutia award in 1963.
Life begins at three (1997) is a reflection that can approach the discomfort of living with someone with whom we are not comfortable. Meanwhile, encounters occur with people with whom different intense and exciting connections are created. Perhaps, in this brief story, Elena Garro describes, as in other of her works, the sensations she experienced when she was immersed in an unhappy and overwhelming marriage.
A couple of years ago, Octavio Paz had requested, without warning Elena, the express divorce in a border office in Mexico. This same office notified the playwright of the judicial process that freed her from her union to peace, but that would lead her to live one of the most problematic episodes of her life.