The Oresteia has that immortal point of work. Its immaculate conservation from ancient Greece until today, make it a link with the origin of our civilization, a channel of communication with that world in which it all began. And as the Latin quote reads: «Nihil novum sub ...
In 1916, the Somme region of France was bathed in blood as one of the bloodiest scenes of the First World War. In 1971 the well-known battle claimed its last victims. A couple jumped into the air when stepping on a grenade from that scene. The past was manifesting ...
That love can turn into something destructive was something that Freddy Mercury already sang in his song "too much love will kill you." So this Sylvia book becomes the literary version. As a curiosity of curiosities it should be noted that both works, the musical and the prosaic ...
Not long ago I was referring to another book about the supposed last hours of a character facing a terminal illness. It was The Rest of His Days, by Jean Paul Didierlaurent. It comes to mention citing him to present this new book as the same concept narrated in an antagonistic way. ...
Since Don Quixote, novels about quirky characters who undertake a real journey and another parallel presentation of their personalities and their special way of seeing the world, have been lavished as a good argument on which to extend in a plot. In the case of the book ...
A certain point of unease pervades this entire novel that deals with the rugged issue of the white slave trade as the origin for the development of its plot. But it is undeniable that sexuality must always overcome everything in order to maintain a full life in the future of a woman ...
Existence can hurt. Setbacks can provoke that feeling of a world that concentrates a somatized pain every new day. This novel is about how the people of Holt cope with pain, The Song of the Plains, by Kent Haruf. True humanity, as a kind of ...
Either by simple desire or by professional deformation, every writer ends up harboring his own ghosts, that kind of specters invisible to others and that offer sustenance for the ramblings, ideas and drafts of each new book. And every writer, at a given moment ends up writing the essay ...
Lately I have been finding very good books of stories. Whether by chance or not, for me it has been a relaunch of this narrative style. Current books such as La acoustica de los Iglús, by Almudena Sánchez, or Música noche de John Connolly are clear exponents of this emergence, at least ...
The consequences are an inescapable future derived from a particular dilemma that usually arises by chance. And they are almost always negative, due to the fatality that has taken over the concept of this word. It's the 50's in the United States. For some guys, driving at full speed ...
The first idea that struck me when I discovered this title was that it gave a very complete feeling, full of nuances. The sound inside an igloo bouncing between icy walls, transmitting but not being able to communicate between the air held in the cold. A kind of surreal metaphor, ...
The thing about the economic interests created, and their ability to break through between the three powers is not as fictional a subject as we might think. And perhaps that is why Grisham's stories end up becoming bedside readings for so many readers. In this book El bribery, ...