![]() Wide expanses of blue sky crossed by a rainbow over infinite unspoiled rural horizons create the impression of a timeless universe on which the author is able to reveal the discovery and growth of girls in their distinct personalities. The book begins with scenes of pubescence: we see Guille and Belinda reclining on bunk beds as they playfully adorn them with homemade costumes of tinsel and dried flowers. With The Illusion of an Eternal Summer, Alessandra Sanguinetti returns to rural Argentina to work with the two girls to continue, add, expand and further explore the intimate world of the cousins, relating through an attentive and sensitive gaze the events, the dimensions and the changes that advancing in life inevitably promises.Īdopting a narrative posture that has many points in common with cinematic storytelling, Alessandra Sanguinetti follows the two girls from 14 to 24 years of age, producing an observation that sees them as they face the fluid territory between adolescence and young adulthood.īy concretizing a listening and a story that partly confirms and rediscovers elements already explored in the previous book, (The rural setting, the presence of animals), Alessandra Sanguinetti shows us the daily life of the two cousins as they grow up through adolescence to adulthood and finally to motherhood, all while maintaining and deepening the feminine intimacy that has long characterized their evolving relationship. Second episode of the series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, An Everlasting Summer continues a dialogue already begun with a first editorial project that saw Alessandra Sanguinetti in collaboration with her two Argentine cousins, Belinda and Guillermina, with whom the author began an intimate and enigmatic path in search of the sense and meaning of the dreams of the two girls. A work on care and feminine friendship that manages, through the delicate combination of never noisy shades, to outline a strongly poetic and free story. Inevitably diaristic, Alessandra Sanguinetti’s work can be viewed as the powerful tale of the intimate universal bond between three women. Intimate, attentive, intelligent, sensitive to what happens in the everyday routine of a life aimed at growth, exploration and change.
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