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Propongo renombrar a este libro: «Querida Quiela, te abrazo yo, que ese tal Diego Rivera no vale brga».

Y si pudiera abrazar a Angelina, lo haría. Y si pudiera entender ese amor, también, pero yo no soy la voz de la razón.

A quick read novella (about 85 pp, small format book, large print). Poniatowska (born in Paris - Polish or Russsin parents? - moved to Mexico, not unlike her main character here) is a well regarded journalist and fiction writer in Mexico. Her novels often are based on real life characters )(Leonra Carrington). She has had a handful of her works translated into English, but this is the only one that ever got any notice for her.
Diego Rivera was married to Russian emigrant artist Angelina Beloff for 10 years, right around WWI, when they lived in Paris. This is a series of letters she might have written to him over a 3 month period in 1922, shortly after he left here in Paris to return to Mexico.
Despite her respect for his artistic talent and devout love for him, he comes off as large a jerk as he does later in life. Another story of a female artist giving over her time and talent in order for the male to practice his.
Poniatowska does quite well in presenting us with the thoughts and insights of a visual artist, in fact one of the better presentations of this I have seen in print.
Well worth the evening it will take you to read this. I'm on the fence about picking up other work by her.

This short book is a wrenching series of letters from a woman who is living in very cold Paris to Mexico asking for news. Their child has died, she is poor and trying to support herself by painting. She misses him terribly after a ten year relationship. At some point he sends money and asks her to deliver money to a mistress and their child. He sends money, but never a letter. At the end of the book, it is revealed that she is writing to Diego Rivera. Although historical fiction usually does not appeal to me, this book written in Spanish paints a lovely picture of Angelina Beloff, the mother of Diego Rivera's child.

¿Es el amor realmente lo más importante?

"Bertram Wolfe, a quien estas cartas le deben mucho de su información, consigna en La Fabulosa vida de Diego Rivera, que sólo en 1935, es decir, trece años después, impulsada por pintores mexicanos, amigos suyos, Angelina Beloff logró ir a la tierra de sus anhelos. No buscó a Diego, no quería molestarlo. Cuando se encontraron en un concierto en Bellas Artes, Diego pasó a su lado sin siquiera reconocerla"

Con esa frase termina la pequeña novela de Elena Poniatowska que consiste en una compilación de cartas imaginarias basadas en hechos reales. Angelina describe en ellas, lo mucho que añora la presencia de Diego en París. Mientras parece que este ya la ha olvidado, pues no contesta sus amorosas palabras y se limita a mandarle remesas y secos telegramas de vez en cuando. Creo que este libro es una gran lección, pues a veces cuando estamos enamorados, no nos damos cuenta que estamos desperdiciando nuestra vida esperando a alguien que nunca va a regresar.

El libro es muy fácil de leer, pues usa un lenguaje sencillo que expresa muy bien la vida de dolor, pobreza y pérdida que había vivido Angelina en aquellos años. Una mujer perdida en el amor hacia alguien que después de estar diez años con ella, ya no la ama. Y para colmo, a muy poco tiempo de haber perdido un hijo.