Читать книгу Festina Lente - Ana Cristina Leonardos - Страница 5

A book like this is an adventure.

The idea of the authors to make visible the challenges that women in their fifties have already been facing is, by itself, a difficult goal; and when to this one adds that they do this as part of this age group and also facing these turbulent times, then the whole process is converted into a reflexive challenge.

Looking and listening as investigators/writers in their fifties, while listening and witnessing other women talk about their lives, ends up being a game of mirrors, a labyrinth of meanings, echoes, and “hybridizations”.

Amid such complexity, handling this process in a book is a challenge full of risks; however, the audacity and the intellectual honesty of the authors ended up producing a work that transcends “the women”, just as it transcends “the fifties”.

This work glides beyond the testimony and the analysis of the problems of women in their fifties upon pointing toward the most human of human abilities: the ability to reflect upon and feel oneself.

Interrogating oneself and reflecting on the labyrinths that arise in the complexities of passing through significant moments of life is a daring idea, but doing this while living through this stage is like building a boat while sailing. A work of daring artisans!

Is this a book by women for women? Yes and no.

In the book, there is a level in which what you hear are the voices of those who witness similar experiences in passing from one life stage to another, and at another level, what emerges is the human condition of interrogating oneself about life, its challenges, and its surprises.

Thus, is this a book by women for women? Yes and no.

Regarding this matter, this work is also a writing that us men need to read, in order to perceive similarities, differences, and particularities related to the significant transitions of life.

We are referring to certain movements that are not always recorded on the calendar. Sometimes they are so subtle that we only recognize them by the marks left on the skin, in the smile, or in the affection that arises when looking at our own image in the mirror and discovering hidden riches.

Saul Ignacio Fuks