IMPROMPTU (an improvisation)

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A chance encounter at the crossroads of an avenue in the city of Buenos Aires, after thirty years of farewell, marks the bridge between the past and the future of Sara and Román, who project the illo tempore of the clock in the chronological time of the clocks. The myth of Ariadna and Theseus is the foundation of this new novel by Beatriz Isoldi that has been surprising readers with renewed resources about the narrator’s perspectives, the meticulous construction of the characters, the leaps in time, the projections in the spaces, the different modes of intertextualization, the Bakhtinian dialogism, these and other resources required of the novel of this postmodernity.

In Impromptu the writer takes a greater risk, takes the myth as the irruption of the supernatural, of divine order, in the world of individuals who pass through reality, particularly the couple of lovers whose existential path is labyrinthine and who has been threatened by the Minotaur, embodied in the businessman who would support the presentation of Impromptu, the play whose script is also a variant of the aforementioned Greek myth in which Sara, the main character in the narrative, plays Ariadna.

The end of the novel is disconcerting, the myth can show its reverse in history, and Isoldi anticipated: “Time, the implacable provocateur of encounters and disagreements, the usurper of life...”

Lic. Bertha Bilbao Richter is Vice President of the Hispanic Literary and Cultural Institute (ILCH)