Marina Perezagua
Editorial: Foam pages
Year of original publication: 2025
I received Luna Park A lot of desire and they all took me as soon as I read that it was a book about maternities (another). Luckily, it is not. Or not only.
Maternity Ten stories They are starring mothers and children, but it is still a starting point to talk about many issues. Many. All who have been able to pass the author: The roots, The loneliness, Racism, mental illnessfear, childhood …
In ‘Luna Park’, motherhood is a starting point to reflect on loneliness, racism, mental illness or fear
Why Marina Perezagua Do not write, divag. But He divagates with style and awareness. Their stories are interrupted by their own thoughts. On more than one occasion, the writer looks out to the texts and breaks the fourth wall as directly as this: “Then I will detail our little story, but first I want to tell one of the reasons that led me to write this story.”
And in that going through the branches he finds a huge Variety of records and genresranging from memoirs to fiction, almost through journalistic chronicle, opinion or even terror, so present in the last story entitled ‘Kill children’. However, by professional deformation, a couple of real stories that the Sevillian writer has cast in two of her stories. Both have to do with children.
Everyone likes a baby
One is collected in ‘María de Mississipi and the fetuses of Pen Wang’. Wang, a Chinese artist, found a Newborn girl on a landfill. Then, in other landfills in his city, he began to run into many fetuses.
when in China the only child’s policy, which lasted until 2015, many women looked forced to abort and get rid of their children, especially if they were girls. “This is not part of a fictional story,” says the author in one of her appearances. Wang, impacted by what he lived and with the intention that no one ever forgot the atrocities committed by his government, he began to photograph lifeless babies.
Marina Perezagua does not write, divaga. But divags with style and awareness. Their stories are interrupted by their own thoughts
At times how this is when it emerges The essay look of Marina Perezaguathat in the story Luna Park It tells another story as real as incredible. It happened in the twenties. In New York, in the legendary attraction park that gives its name to the book and the story, visitors could meet posters like this: ‘incubators. Everyone likes a baby. ‘
In exchange for twenty -five cents, anyone could enter the attraction, which basically consisted of See babies on the verge of death. The controversial show was devised by the Obstetrician Martin A. Couney. At that time, hospitals did not attend premature babies and evicted them, so the show became the only hope for many mothers. The ticket price served to Wash the care of babies and the salary of the nurses who participated.
Today, Perezagua writes, Luna Park “continues to maintain that paradoxical aura of a world that continues to work, although there is no longer there.” A reflection that, in the book, New York City is extrapolatedmain scenario and great common link of the ten stories.
New York, a great rotten apple
Throughout 125 pages, the writer invites us to climb that Noria emblematic that illustrates the roof to offer us a panoramic view of a city that is far from that idealized place For the cinema. He New York Marina Perezagua is composed of gentrified and hypervigilated neighborhoods, supermarkets where they sell firearmsridiculous apartments at exorbitant prices, pedophile and rats parks scarbing garbage bags that are piled up for days on the sidewalks.
The author strips of every artifice to a city that never existed, exposing The rotten skeleton of the Big Apple. Luna Park It is his farewell to a decadent and decomposition New York, which now expels it after hosting it more than two decades ago.
‘Luna Park’ is her farewell to a decadent and decomposition New York, which now expels her after hosting her more than two decades ago
But even of the misfortunes you have to laugh, and Perezagua reserves us of reportstremendously fun: ‘Ten words’, on the surreal encounter between a speech therapist with little tact and a girl unable to say more than two words; And ‘The third child is the horror’, in which the protagonist, exhausted from life, tells her husband’s second adolescence, a forty that only has time for the music band that has just trained with friends. Two stories full of irony and bad drool that could perfectly be played in a show of stand up comedy.
And so, on horseback between humor and the disturbing, marina lazguagua to a book singular e nondescript about what it means to continue living in a world that wobbles.
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