Tuya de Claudia Piñeiro:: de esposa perfecta a asesina calculadora

Abstract

After twenty years of marriage and with an adolescent daughter, Ines sees her seemingly perfect life with Ernesto revolted by the discovery of her husband’s affair with a woman who signs love letters under the name “Tuya” (“Yours”). This will be the trigger of Ines’ future course of action, taking her from model wife to coldblooded killer, an unexpected facet of her personality. In this novel, divided into two main parts ­–Primera parte (First Part) and Cinco meses después (Five months later)–, Claudia Piñeiro, by using three different narrators (Ines, Lali and a third person narrator), shows both, the life of an average Latin American woman and her development as a criminal. Thus, we intend to show in the following pages, the way in which Ines transforms herself from a perfect housewife who justifies her husband’s infidelities, into a coldblooded killer who takes time in studying about forensic sciences in order to commit a perfect crime; ignoring, meanwhile, the problems of her adolescent daughter Lali who is pregnant. By doing so, we want to show the importance of the prescriptive female speech (as proposed by Margarita Dalton Palomo), as a requirement of excellence for women in all of the roles they have to fulfill in Latin American society.