Maria Gabriela Llansol's Spiritual Writing

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[...] The polyptote around the term 'figure': 'However, in the silence, I transformed myself into a figure, I entered the figural order, or the natural life of the figure'. The author evokes the difficult moments she has lived in this commune of Herbais, but which may have been the occasion for her a strange mutation with metaphysical accents in some way. It is what she seems to explain through this insistence on the crucial notion for her of figure. One notes a kind of paradox in the third paragraph between all that can evoke a space that is a bit too fixed, almost bourgeois 'clean room', 'immobile space' and yet inspiring and 'evocative' which is brought through the stylistic figure of the hyperbate, surprising the reader. [...]

[...] Maria Gabriela Llansol proposes a writing style that shakes up traditional Cartesian codes. This can be seen when she evokes the possibility of multiple worlds. In this regard, one can think of certain references in South American literature and, of course, Fernando Pessoa. Through an anaphora 'the world', she describes a world that is both 'tenacious', 'flashing', and 'unknown'. For the writer, literature is not a matter of 'fine writing', of a pretty rhetoric, but a deep spiritual experience that engages the writer, and the reader by the same token, entirely. [...]

[...] She thus places her own journal alongside other works that are part of a reflection on how the simplest daily life can lead to deep reflections and transfigure through a carnal writing. Thus, Maria Gabriela Llansol's writing is distinguished by a permanent search for spiritual depth and a questioning of conventions. Through an exploration of the figure, metaphysics, and the everyday, she manages to transcend the most simple events to propose a broader reflection on existence and the place of the individual in the world. [...]

[...] 'Tenacious' would refer to a form of resistance from the writer in the face of a world subjected to frenzied consumerism and indifference, as well as a lack of spirituality. The author, in her inner struggle, refers to great historical figures from whom she seems to want to detach herself, even if the simple fact of naming them shows the influence they exert on her. This is the case, for example, of Thomas Müntzer, a preacher associated with peasant struggles and brutally repressed. [...]