“Measure the thread”, by the writer Melisa Machuca, proposes a story crossed by the age difference, desire and the ethical questions that arise when a bond defies norms.
Love stories don’t go out of style, but the questions that go through them do change. In “Measure the thread”the new novel by Argentine writer Melisa Machuca, romance appears as an inevitable force that challenges logic, ethics, and life decisions.
Published by Editorial Autores de Argentina, the work inaugurates the trilogy “The thread of the impossible” and tells the relationship between Saori, a young editor, and Elon, her philosophy teacher. Between classes, intellectual conversations and silences full of tension, both begin to build a bond that seems destined to exist and, at the same time, put everything at risk.
According to the author, the starting point of the story was not the romance itself, but a symbolic image.
“The first thing that appeared was the concept of the thread as an invisible symbol that connects destinies that seem incompatible.«, Machuca explained. «Later, Saori and Elon emerged as incarnations of that idea. “They represent two worlds that seemed not to correspond, but were deeply intertwined.”
When love defies logic
The title of the novel refers to that central metaphor: the thread that unites two people even when everything indicates that they should not be together.
“Measuring the thread is trying to understand how far a link can sustain us when everything around seems to indicate that it should not exist.«said the writer. «It is something very human: we want to put reason to what we feel. But in love, measuring is not calculating, it is encouraging ourselves to look at the depth of what unites us.”
In the novel, that bond is built in an intellectual sphere. Elon is a teacher with years of experience and losses on his back; Saori, a young woman who moves more by intuition than by calculation.
“I never wanted the age difference to be a superficial obstacle,” Machuca explained. «Elon represents the prudence of those who have already experienced losses; Saori, the intensity of those who still believe that love can reinvent everything.»
The tension of what is not said
One of the most marked narrative features of “Measure the thread” It is the importance of silences and minimal gestures between the protagonists.
“Looks, minimal gestures, shared breathing can say more than an explicit dialogue«said the author. «Silence is a territory where everything beats with more intensity, because what is not said is perceived.»
In this emotional game, Saori embodies a particular sensitivity. “In a world that prioritizes logic, she understands that there are truths that can only be felt,” Machuca explained. “Your intuition is your greatest strength, although you also expose it: feeling deeply involves risking suffering.”
The real impossible
Throughout the story, the bond between the protagonists puts the certainties of both under tension. For Elon, falling in love means facing the possibility of losing again; For Saori, it means holding on to what you feel even when the future is uncertain.
For the author, this is where the true conflict of the novel appears.
“The real impossibility is not the age difference or the social context«, he stated. «The real impossible is to dare to accept what we feel when that feeling forces us to rethink our entire life.»
The beginning of a narrative universe
“Measure the thread” is the first part of a trilogy that will continue with “Cut the thread”where the story will delve into the traces that certain links leave in people’s lives.
“I hope readers wonder what those links are that marked their own lives,” Machuca said. “There are loves that, even when they end, do not fail: they transform us.”
With a story crossed by desire, philosophy and the question of whether there are inevitable encounters, the novel proposes returning to a classic idea in literature: that some loves, no matter how impossible they may seem, are destined to change everything.
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