Sara Mesa tells us about her book "Opposition" (Ed. Anagram) With Violeta Ros. To get an opposition or opposition to a discouraging future?
The narrator of this novel studies to consolidate her professional future. Has achieved an interim post in an administrative office, and face an opposition seems to be the logical step in your career. However, Another type of opposition, The internal, based on your official day -to -day observation, makes nothing clear about. The building where it has been destined, as gigantic as hermetic, It is a place of incomprehensible hierarchies, that expels it at the same time that it absorbs it. As nobody explains their functions, is forced to improvise, hide out of shame and record your discomfort with drawings and poems as displaced from reality as work itself. The officials around it, each with their peculiarities and conflicts, They have developed the tics and manias of work routines and acritic obedience. Needy life, True and play pulse, The opponent will make small subversive decisions without anticipating their possible disciplinary consequences.
Through a curious look, ears and increasingly disenchanted, Opposition describes the traps of bureaucratic mechanisms not only for those who suffer from them, but also for those who put them into operation. The incisive Sara Mesa, who knew the world of administration inside, It addresses the account of the contemporary bureaucracy from the perspective of those who are caught in the dead time of useless tasks, Treating the problem of boredom and apathy in a brilliant narrative, Bush and relentless rhythm. Its protagonist, Like a random and involuntary heroine, faces the worst and most disturbing of the absurdities: How we organize in society.
