i don't know i said, de matthew savoca

un libro que empieza con "Ninguno de los dos tenía trabajo ni hobbies. No teníamos ningún sitio donde estar ni nada que hacer" podría bien ser un libro sobre jóvenes españoles de hoy en día. veinti-pocos años, sin motivaciones ni horarios, simplemente un día que sigue a otro y así durante mucho tiempo.

pero estos jóvenes tienen amor. o al menos creen que lo tienen, y es lo que les hace seguir adelante. (a veces no se diferencia tanto el cielo proyectado en la pantalla del que brilla realmente afuera).

matthew savocca es un poeta de pennsylvania incluido en Tenían Veinte Años y Estaban Locos. a mí me gustaron sus libros anteriores, long love poem with descriptive title y morocco, escrito junto a kendra grant malone, que también está incluida en el libro antologado por Luna Miguel . 

por páginas como esta me gusta matthew savoca:

                                     

     

Amazon review: I Don't Know I Said 

i am very happy i finally managed to scrape some euros to buy this book. i live in spain. i think a lot of people here could really relate to some of the stuff happening in this book, especially people my generation, twenty-something and thirty year olds who are mostly unemployed and don't really know what to do with their lives. nothing really bad happens, but nothing really good, either.

i can really relate to this book. i think there is a strong influence of buddhism in it, only buddhism understood in a wrong way. i mean, there is no actual desire to do anything. the only decision Caroline and Arthur take is the decision not to take a decision. there is a sense of permanent dissatisfaction and a lack of the ability to react properly. a kind of buddhism that cannot make things better.

nothing really happens in this book, i mean, nothing big. but it is the beauty of the small things that we can relate to. reading the "funnies" in the newspaper, finding a place with wi-fi, riding a bike, doing yoga. dreaming about going far away on findacrew.com but not actually having the guts to do it. dreaming about breaking up, and having something happen to you. not just anything, just that one big thing we don't know about yet but that might be able to change our paths.

an ordinary love story trying to make life less ordinary.