Prologue

( by Isabel-Clara Simó)

Carles Cortes begins his career with Woman’s voice as narrator, and we can predict that it will be a long and intense career, because obviously has a lot in the crop and enough skill to transform them into literature.

The style of this first book is, following Bakhtin, a “hidden dialogue” also called “dramatic monologue”, where we feel a voice in dialogue with others that remain hidden. It is not easy because an action has the danger of monotony, a danger that avoids Cortes brilliantly, as the most remarkable feature of this novel is its readability.

What is more surprising is the age and sex of the narrator-character. For people very elementary, the protagonist of a story is an alter ego of the author, which often belies the history of literature in a primary change that has nothing to see with that age, and the protagonist often coincides with the author . Joan Fuster himself did, in one of his books of brilliant reflections. I do not know whether to be contrary to tradition, Cortes is transmuted into an elderly woman and well, and has the grace to speak as an older woman. Just for that, it deserves our attention.

But history is also linked with admirable skill, I am convinced that, in addition to the intrigue of narrative events, the reader’s expectations are based on the fluidity of the prose. Not for nothing Cortes is a connoisseur of literature and a scholar of his secrets.

They say everything is already written, the stories that we can “invent” have already been invented and that, at this point in history, the best we can hope for this is to tell the same stories with new words. I do not know: I think a warning like this is certainly the ancient Greeks did, and since then the Romans, who often exclaim that the Greeks already have dropped everything done. To me it seems that the narrative is more than the argument that, in fact, the argument is only one of its ingredients, and not exactly the most important. And yet again, a familiar argument, treated by a good writer, is completely original, and you have the most vivid impression, reading it, you’re reading a new history from head to toe.

I am convinced that the secret is in the tone, and rhythm, and temperature in a very special, point of view of the narrator or character, and architecture that has been mounted with the work. Well, besides having an interesting argument those who cannot let that make you want to know what else happens, Voice of Women has the virtue of having a solid architecture, a perfectly appropriate confidential tone, an agile rhythm and a coherent point of view. And a high temperature, no doubt, by flavoring ventilated and moisture-laden brackish sea: Mediterranean temperatures.

Carles Cortes begins his adventure fiction with a very good start. Insurance will give us many pleasant surprises in the future, a future very long, given his youth.