Two novels by Vivian Jimenez

"... As his fingers between her legs meet common mission, peace was made in it? The column that you draw within me. "Luisa sex associated with liberation. Was there something more liberating than an orgasm? The Cities of your body. Literature is a space - almost squat - we will wrapping, it's going fine invisible threads tying with another sublime instance of life. We can return to the source that fluctuates imperceptibly within us, helping us to recognize, to discover, to love or hate. Literature is deep body, and infinite. In its territory were naked to ourselves and the world. Builds bridges. Pointing upward. Crumbles. Dissipated and re-build. And this communion is more intense and intimate when literature is rampant among naked bodies and panting. It becomes an invitation to other bodies. The literature then defines each element constituting the sacred space where sleeps the newly loved body odor. In its pages caress the body restless word, and by stroking the word, cherish - somehow - all the lost love between fire and neglect.

Among furtive caresses and names that hands secretly, we get two novels by Vivian Jimenez, writer born in Cuba. Drawn into the column of my (2003) and Cities of Your Body (2007) make the narrative work of a woman who dared to write from the skin, a place where we all become one and many. With the column that I get drawn into the Erotic Novel Prize sponsored by Alfadil Editors and had a remarkable career grand jury in the cultural field in Venezuela. The Cities of your body, and his second novel which celebrates, along with his readers, a much larger narrative maturity. Two novels where eroticism and loneliness become the backbone of the XXI century woman. Where, unexpectedly, we get lost in its pages the same way as we do in the arms and legs lover was happy to finally sunk in the unfathomable forest. Vivian literature wraps. It makes us partakers of his body. There looks browser back shifting and brackish. Two novels that reveal what Alberto Drazul defined as the eroticism of the heart, which is the research unit, broken by the interruption, by the passion of love.

The column that you draw into My, recently translated into German (Die die Säule hast du mir gezeichnet), is an inquiry through the memories of a girl's sexual initiation in which deprive the idealization of love, grief, fear of loneliness and abandonment, obsessions that blend into the psyche of the woman in the XXI century. Through the characters, we can look into the thoughts that emanate from every relationship there exposed; thoughts some very intense and gritty, others more basic. The story is told through the subtlety of poetic language and always lit the flame of eroticism. A story where homosexuality is vindicated through several lesbian relationships that come together in a stream of fantasies that are nothing more than the claim of a soul tormented by homelessness.

In the cities of your body again opens a dialog cosmic loneliness and frustration. Pages at the same time become shelter through memory and sex. It is an erotic novel written from the existential needs of women. A position that reminds me of Anaïs Nin, whose writing became an agonizing self-analysis that sought externalize his latent sexuality, in other words, wanted to have sex lives as a woman. Vivian's new novel is inexorably tied Jimenez eroticism, not only that counts, but the path it took to tell. The busy road is none other than the poetry. The novel is strongly poetic, and poetry, as Octavio Paz put it, is closely related to the erotic. Both poetry and eroticism, are comprised of a complementary opposition. Through his words are petted and caressed while. Eroticism in Vivian Jimenez, particularly described in the cities of your body goes beyond the overflow of a caress on the back naked lover. Eroticism in Vivian Jimenez is an angry cry for the life time to live it.

It's your pass. Your claim is virulent for charging into existence that which it has seized. The eroticism in the novel is a struggle from the skin against forgetfulness because sex has a good memory and he helps us remember that we are free in our memories. Claiming the body. Sex as a release agent about Emmanuelle very Arsames whose most important novel of sex arises as a cult of sensual pleasure, free of all morality. Sex becomes the way for the revelation of who we are, and that was more than evident in this novel. Behind a symbolic veil hides the need for knowledge of the other, which in this case is the lover. And know we know. Vivian writes: "With his tongue and nose penetrates places that I never recognized as part of me. He invents. Makes me a new world, I rebuild? At the same time it opens its wings cunnilingus into new worlds unknown to her, she understands that recalls the beginning and end, alpha and omega, the promised land where we will. Women's women come from and go.

"To see him finish in the point where it all begins, where life told him welcome, run, and sex was resentful insisting back?. Further stresses the idea: "Henry was enjoying my body. I drank like to reconnect with your life?. Vivian Jimenez bet with the novel to a sexuality beyond the physical. Sexuality through which opened the doors of liberation as they pointed D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and more recently, Valerie Tasso. Orgasm becomes the bridge to a new dimension, as Louise, the main character in the novel, "sex associated with liberation. Was there something more liberating than an orgasm? And if the orgasm was a liberating experience for her, then began to try to get it at all times, in all things. The Cities of your body reveals the soul of a woman. And despite its pages all is revealed, then quickly dissipates this discovery, or rather, it is way to new and deeper mysteries. What do you think a woman when the lover part? How do you feel when touching a woman who were once theirs are snatched into another body?

Vivian writes: "Henry was in love with another woman. The first thing that came to mind were opportunistic memory of all the times we loved, the number of orgasms downloaded on your body, the pain from such a distance, projects covering the rest of our lives together, sacrifice, spending , time. It was like being in the air, threatening the collapse inevitable?. Through this novel we can explore the inner world of insurmountable women. Their dreams and hopes, their aspirations and dreams, the ardor for living from orgasmic intensity. A story built with the body that is left on each line track, "Naked is letting you read my story in capital letters [...] From my body open, with their various shades, emerges a sound that I have to get the whole alien and full of grace. Undress is exposed, then talk to the butterflies?. Drawn into the column Me and The City of Your Body by Vivian Jimenez are a snapshot of nostalgia deployed from the labyrinths of love and sex. Starkly show the mysteries of the human condition through a dense forest where they manage to confuse the emotions of the author to the reader.

They are two different portraits of sexuality, especially female. They are a testimony altarpiece, lonely places and areas in which we confront ourselves in a dense and disturbing. An abyss of intimacy which, together with her, let a secret that burns in the pit that we patiently in a tree upright in the solitude of a hill. Vivian Jimenez These novels represent not only a harrowing and exciting reading, but also reflect the maturity reached in Venezuela erotic literature.