Las mujeres que amé

The Women I Loved is a book of two novellas in which the same theme is dealt with: the impossibility of the author to maintain a loving relationship. Why count that? Because behind jealousy, melancholy, the game of seduction or infidelity is selfishness as a kind of obsession for not letting the entrance of another into the narrator's life end up diluting him. Egocentricity, as an obsessive and unconscious survival mechanism, represents the narrative drive of autofiction writing. Daniel Guebel, multi-award-winning, with his own style, is praised for his storytelling prowess, overflowing imagination and great creativity. He can be seen as a writer who draws on the ironic Jewish tradition and Borgian playful fantasy. This fantastic autofiction narrative mix of sentimental diary, psychological obsession with the past and religious and moral inquiry is an attempt to cure not to be cured, a testimony that writing can be a place for the survival of the self above all else. The ego is something of a shabby place, limited, tedious, but known. And better known bad than good to know. Does the writer write because he is unable to connect with the world? Perhaps this criticism of the egomaniacal way of life, a natural criticism, from the narrator's unconsciousness, is a revelation narratively speaking, because this criticism of the ego is also a criticism of writing as the feeding mechanism of the ego.