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    Espejo, hombro, intermitente

    By Dorthe Nors

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    Las tragicómicas andanzas de una mujer solitaria, ya cuarentona, que decide aprender a conducir y a vivir de otra manera.

    Sonja, que tiene ya más de cuarenta años, vive en Copenhague. Soñó con ser escritora, pero se gana la vida como traductora de thrillers nórdicos ultraviolentos. La suya es una profesión solitaria, que contribuye a aislarla. Su vida es rutinaria y no se siente muy feliz con ella. Y, para colmo, empieza a padecer vértigos, acaso provocados por un problema en el oído interno, o tal vez anuncio de un proceso depresivo.

    Y es entonces cuando Sonja trata de reconducir su vida tomando algunas decisiones: aprender a conducir con ayuda de un instructor por el que acabará sintiendo cierta atracción, reconciliarse con su cuerpo a través de unas sesiones de masaje con una masajista profesional e intentar retomar el contacto con su esquiva hermana… Aunque las cosas no siempre salen como una espera.

    Esta es una de esas novelas en las que en apariencia pasan pocas cosas, pero el lector atento sabrá descubrir los muchos y muy caudalosos ríos subterráneos que fluyen por sus páginas. Con su prosa ágil, irónica y punzante, la autora nos ofrece un retrato potentísimo de un personaje femenino en plena crisis de la mediana edad, con sus flaquezas y esperanzas de dar un nuevo sentido a su vida. El libro es también el retrato perspicaz y tragicómico de las soledades urbanas, plasmadas mediante un cúmulo de pequeños gestos cotidianos, de palabras dichas o calladas, de actitudes humanas que a todos nos resultarán muy familiares.

    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherEditorial Anagrama
    Release dateMay 22, 2019
    ISBN9788433940339
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    Espejo, hombro, intermitente
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    Dorthe Nors

    Dorthe Nors (Herning, 1970) es licenciada en Literatura e Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Aarhus, y una de las voces más originales y aplaudidas de la literatura danesa actual. Es autora de cuatro novelas y de un volumen de relatos, Golpe de kárate, con el que dio el salto internacional. Ha publicado textos en revistas como Harper’s y Boston Review, y en 2013 un cuento suyo fue el primero de un escritor danés en el New Yorker. En 2014 recibió el Premio Per Olov Enquist. En Anagrama ha aparecido la novela Espejo, hombro, intermitente: «Llena de miniaturas vitales contadas con ironía y profundidad. Dorthe Nors cuenta la soledad urbana. Lo cómico de la soledad» (Rosa Belmonte, ABC); «Nors es una miniaturista deliciosa que se apoya en la ficción experimental para retratarnos la vida interior y el aislamiento de los seres anónimos de mediana edad» (Ángeles López, La Razón). 

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    • 3/5
      I found this book to be very sad. Sonja translates the books of an author from Swedish into Danish. She is middle age and lives somewhat reclusively in Copenhagen while her sister and parents live in Denmark. The premise of the book is that of obtaining her driver's license (Mirror - Shoulder - Signal) while dealing with a type of vertigo that attacks her periodically and which preoccupies her all the time in her attempts to avoid an occurrence. It's not clear why she wants her driver's license except that she now has the money to take the classes. She seems to want to connect with people but in social situations she seems to want to get away as soon as she arrives. She tries to connect via phone with her sister and parents but the attempts are awkward. I found Sonja so odd that I was compelled to keep reading so I could figure her out. But I couldn't. The author did seem to get into her soul and I was sorry for the decision that Sonja made in the end.
    • 4/5
      As the title rather suggests, Mirror, shoulder, signal is about learning to drive - the central character, Sonja, is a fortyish single woman from the depths of rural Jutland who feels somewhat adrift in the urban rush of Copenhagen. She earns her living as the Danish translator of the popular but appallingly violent Swedish crime novels of Gösta Svensson, which are starting to disgust her; the driving lessons with gossipy, motherly instructor Jytte are getting her nowhere; she doesn't want to reveal that she may be unfit to drive anyway as she suffers from dizzy spells as a result of a hereditary balance problem. And she misses the contact she used to have with her sister Kate. This should be a grim and miserable sort of novel, but it's actually very funny, and the ending is delightfully offbeat. Maybe there isn't quite enough story to support a full-scale novel (even a relatively short one like this), but that doesn't really matter, as Sonja is such an endearing character. And there are plenty of engaging jokes about the clichés of Nordic Noir...
    • 3/5
      Driving lessons.Mirror, Shoulder, Signal was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017, and like it's colleague, the Man Booker Prize, this seems to imply a somewhat off-the-wall read. I haven't followed the International version of the prize in the past, but it probably represents my taste more than the English version.This is a Danish author, in translation, and if I'm honest, not a lot happens. It's a short book at under 200 pages, and centres around Sonja, a middle-aged woman, who is trying prove something to herself by learning to drive. Her driving instructor won't let her touch the gear lever and changes gear for her, which is understandably frustrating.She holds down a job translating a crime writer's novels from Swedish to Danish, and as he seems to be quite a well known author, this job gives Sonja some degree of respect. Meanwhile she goes for regular massage with Ellen, a somewhat forward masseuse who reads all sorts if importance into every ache and pain that Sonja confesses to.Living in Copenhagen, Sonja frequently thinks with nostalgia of her childhood in the wilds of Denmark, where her sister, Kate, still lives. Kate avoids answering the phone and Sonja is progressively more frustrated by her inability to contact her sister."Sonja knows this much about love: there's not much of it in practice, but it's always thrived on people's tongues." (loc 777).The translation was good and I guess I learned a little about life in Denmark, a place I've never been, but this is not a book I'll be encouraging everyone to buy.
    • 2/5
      In English translation we have grown accustomed to thinking of Danish writer Dorthe Nors as a minimalist and miniaturist with her experimental list-based novellas in "So Much for That Winter" and short-short stories in "Karate Chop.". "Mirror, Shoulder, Signal" takes a further turn with minimal plot and drama, which presents its own challenges for the writer and reader.Lead character Sonja is the Danish language translator of (fictional) Swedish crime novelist Gösta Svensson (the grisly-sounding nature of his novels made me think of Lars Kepler, himself a fictional construct). Sonja is disconnected from the world and her path back is portrayed to be learning to drive in middle-age with some very quirky driving instructors.I've very much enjoyed all of the Dorthe Nors that I have read up to now,but couldn't seem to get engaged with this latest novel. It does have a wonderful meet-cute ending with another unorthodox character and that was the point at which I actually started to become interested, but then the book was over.
    • 4/5
      110/2020. The story is about a middle-aged woman without a future, because she doesn't want any of the futures that society has directed her towards, mostly presented as mother or corpse, and who is therefore obsessed with the past. But the past isn't a place so she can only go back there inside her own head, except her own memories aren't enough for her and the people from her past don't want to share the insides of their heads with her. At the end of the book she embraces a future in a place and social role, as a rural spinster, that society has told her are both undesirable.The style of writing is descriptive. It presents and dissects without interpreting. The author explicitly separates this work from crime novels in which people are dismembered and then interpreted as clues, from the work of psychologists in which people's minds are broken down and interpreted, from the work of therapists (or shamans) in which people's emotions (or spirits) are anatomised and interpreted. The descriptive imagery is creative enough that it occasionally momentarily veers into bizarre or surreal disconnection. A typical pop-literary Man Booker International shortlist novel.
    • 4/5
      rambling with flashes of brilliance. full of deadpan humour and assurance of its own intelligence and unique perspective. not a model for plot but one of characterisation and point of view.