In 'Oposición', which at times is reminiscent of The Office, Sara Mesa tackles the problems and absurdities of the administrative world with a sense of humor.
The novel has something unsettling about it and gains when the author fearlessly gives herself over to mischief.
In 2019, Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976) published Silencio administrative, an essay where she showed, based on a real case, how bureaucratic procedures can become obstacles. Oposición, her most recent novel, could be read as the reverse, in fiction and from the other side of the table and the computer.
The protagonist and narrator is Sara Villalba, who starts working in the administration of just any city, in just any position. Sara does not always pronounce the soft r well, so many times when she is asked by her interlocutor what her name is, the interlocutor ends up calling her Sada. It is one of the few details of her life outside that building full of officials, along with her secret hobby of writing, that are given to the reader.
