Even the power that animates the poetic universe Cut your hair it is the death of the father, absolutely not treated in the dueling book; on the contrary, in this collection of ten related stories Rosario Villajos (Córdoba, 1978) explains a combination of masterfully conscious voices of which birth and death are two human processes and in the middle is life, it is an immense feeling.
Cut your hair
Rosario Villajos
Six Barral, 2026. 262 pages. €19.90
The author is forced to live with words about loss and accept it, live it and try to make sense of it. The result is a void filled wonderful relationships and short hair as a symbol of sadness and the power of life; Villajos transforms his pain, intimate and personal, into everyman’s literary text: anything can be and we are exposed to the elements, but fiction exists as an effective antidote to the cold of death.
En Cut your hairthe author shares her essential experiences with the fictional world, which draws from popular stories and dwarfs, from the genre of terror and fantasy literature, from classical mythology and commercial cinema. Toma y it reworks motifs and archetypes installed in our culture and takes him to the umbrella between life and death, through one of the things that is not afraid to face guilt and forgiveness, desire and love, forbidden impulses and my ataticos, the terrible thing that life is when it is not miserable or insignificant.
However, they are not dark things, nor halan desgajados of everyday development. In our daily life there are monsters and there are ghosts: the monster lives in us, the ghosts cling to our hearts at night.
With shades of Borgian orality and elegancethe author fictionalizes symbols, characters, and stories; even as he does this for his part, Villajos writes with clear and unspoiled prose, with a timeless style and prescient tone that brings an ancient charm to his stories.
Villajos transforms his pain, intimate and personal, into a literary text of a truly human nature
Blue colored babies like wingless pájaros, shikas-lobas and warnings; cement men and vampires; formerhippie crowned by an enjambre of trees; melenas, which hide death and some vain hope; Eurydice and Orpheus, the love you have is not what I can never be; Many women, spectres, and green abrigs. In the experience of a dream or a peaceful forest, Villajo’s stories are a tea of light that dispels our fears, the darkness of the night.
The story of Cortar and the hair gradually emerges: the story continues in another story, or the story bifurcates as it connects with another voice that takes it over and transforms it into a new story. Jump from one symbol to another, if it moves through different countries, it comes and passes through different historical and socio-economic coordinated contexts, it enters and ascends into subsequent and hospitable realities.
The solid story that supports this thesis is configured by poetic, fragile and unbreakable voices that lead to a world where everything is connected, where being and being equal are just two moments of a single ritual. But Cut your hair It’s not just the story of these extreme trances; it also shows what happens to people here, they maintain ausencias, they sleep with their spirits. Calling from the well, Villajos writes to the editor one day, urging readers to come to his side and stand up for him eternal relationships stop catching a cold.
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