Synopsis
The difficulty of being a woman in 21st-century Barcelona and 17th-century Massachusetts might only be a few hundred years. Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman in a slowly curdling relationship in Barcelona.
From the outside it all looks good--"we have friends who design jewellery, who make politically committed electronic art, who are concerned about their mobile devices being monitored, who talk about climate change"--but her discontent means she's not living up to her part of the bargain. Four hundred years earlier, Deborah Moody marries, loses a child, loses her husband, loses everything, and flees England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But if relying on a husband proved a mistake, independence doesn't mean freedom from the dangerous vanities of men.
Funny, cutting, and a savage indictment of the cheap consolations of meme-ified faux feminism, misplaced solidarity, and sacrifices for the supposed greater good, Cautery offers us two women (one real, one imagined) who share one final vision of true happiness--burning it down and beginning again.
About the author
Lucía Lijtmaer Paskvan is a journalist and writer born in Argentina and raised in Barcelona, where her parents went into exile. She is a specialist in pop culture from a gender perspective. She is also cultural curator, literary translator, and university professor.
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