Atwood, Piñeiro and abortion: the terror of fiction borders reality – 07/11/2018

There is nothing like fiction to talk about reality. As if it was a meme, Tuesday, a group of women put on the pillow worn by the maids in the series The Tale of the Maid – based on a novel of the same name but the powerful image is on the screen – and stood before Congress. They walked with their heads down, as on TV. No statement was needed: the text of what they meant was written in Margaret Atwood's fiction. The argument is already famous: under the pretext of a false terrorist attack, Christian extremism takes power and society becomes totalitarian. Because of the contamination, a large proportion of women are infertile and those who are not "high" and produce children for commanders and their wives. Like yogurt makers: they put the ingredients, they have the time and the product comes out. In the prologue, Atwood says that, among other things, he was fed by "the theft of children in Argentina by the generals."

He gives chills.

All that said these women – the collective of Argentine journalists – mentioning only the novel of the Canadian writer. They talked about terror and slavery. Write this word.

I'm not surprised that there are people who do not read me anymore. "

Claudia Piñeiro

The presence of authors in political life does not stop there .. to download Claudia Piñeiro, the author of Las widows on Thursday, from a conversation with the Cuban Leonardo Padura in August, at the OSDE Foundation

Piñeiro is one of the visible faces of the movement in favor of the legalization of abortion: at the opening of the Book Fair he spoke dressed in the green of the countryside and, in case he was not understood, at the end he showed the green handkerchief.

This exhibition would not be free. usually appears in the anonymity of the networks, they call it "abortion writer" and they call to communicate with the medical company so that she does not speak in her literary activity, and she gives the phone " to disaffiliate or dirty them. "Piñeiro says that last week when it's started they called a hundred people a day. The prepaid told Clarin that he had not had so many, but he did not specify it. And he badured that, by then, the law will already be pbaded, alone or not, the meeting between the authors will be "as expected" and without special security measures. Because the tone of the messages is that of a threat.

"It's a discussion of literature," say the company's sources. But it is also about this: whoever writes is so far from the one who is arguing? "I'm not surprised that there are people who tell me that they do not read me anymore ," says the novelist.

Atwood had warmed up the networks last month, when he took a step away from fiction and embarked on the debate about abortion in our country. From his Twitter account, he appealed to Vice President Gabriela Michetti, one of the swords against the law. This Tuesday, we learned that the Canadian had sent to the UNO Santa Fe newspaper things like: "Women who can not decide whether or not to have babies are slaves, because the state claims their property as their property. "The slavery we had said

Atwood knows closely what is happening in the Argentine women's movement. In December, while he was in the countryside, he had lunch with part of the collective Ni una menos. The Argentines told him that abortion was a problem ahead. C & # 39; was at the Canadian Embbady: Justin Trudeau, his prime minister, strongly and voluntarily supports the voluntary termination of pregnancy

The author emphasized the need for women to support women. And a lot in the fact that we had to add men, do not leave them out. They came into contact: no wonder these days the Canadian is coming back with the problem … or the Prime Minister.

The Canadian usually says that in his extraordinary stories, he does not invent, that everything that matters happens at a given moment in history. This is perhaps why anxiety. And it helps to think.