I Shall Not Be The Imploring One
Mar editor, 2024, 344 p. Fiction, Novel, Spanish
A meeting between Camille Claudel, the famous French sculptor and a Spanish woman, desperated and combative.
French 1968 revisited through the eyes of an author fascinated by the vitality of this rebellion.
As always in Pablo Martín Carbajal’s novels, we see that Art and Life always go hand in hand.
Four years have passed since Dori made the most important decision of her life, but now she cannot find the path forward. Regaining hope means finding her aunt Mila, the woman who was her role model during her childhood and who disappeared without a trace more than twenty years ago. What happened to Mila? Why did she disappear?
Yo no seré La Implorante (I Will Not Be The Beggar) is the story of a woman who tried by all means to be true to herself. We experience the final years of Franco’s regime, Paris in May 1968, the turbulence of the Movida Madrileña, and Mila’s struggle framed within the struggle of an era. It was the rage and courage of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo that motivated Dori to make crucial decisions. It was French sculptor Camille Claudel, her desperate struggle and her work, that served as inspiration for Mila (See the novel You are Cobalt Blue). Two artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and two contemporary women. What do these four women share? Are they united by a common destiny?
Pablo Martín Carbajal recounted Dori’s paroxysm in his first novel, Tú eres azul cobalto (You Are Cobalt Blue). The author now returns to those characters with Yo no seré La Implorante (I Will Not Be The Imploring One). Two novels that can be read independently and that show us that art and life always go hand in hand.
Original Title
Yo no seré La Implorante
Territory of representation
World Wide
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