For the great authors of the mystery genre, such as Matilde Asensi, it must be a greater challenge to find the interesting plot itself than the development process. From the religious to the artistic, passing through the social, the political and the economic, History always houses those enigmatic glimpses on aspects ...
For more than three hundred years, the Romanovs ruled the Russia of the tsars first and later under their later denomination as emperors. But really everything was the same, absolutism around a servile aristocracy. And precisely in this oppressive scenario until the bloody final revolution of 1917, it is also ...
Who would have imagined it? Daniel Silva himself, a mixture of his predecessors in the Yankee espionage genre (the elegance of Patricia Highsmith and the intensity of Robert Ludlum), has stopped and dined on Spanish soil to take off with his latest international thriller novel. From a placid ...
Life is a mystery composed of scraps of memory and ghostly projections of a future whose sole background is the end of everything. Jean-Marie Le Clézio is a portraitist of that life concentrated in his characters determined to unravel everything from a fiction in which any approach is ...
The love of Albert Espinosa Through this deep literature towards optimism, with a touch of philosophy, it ends up becoming a vent somewhere between fiction and reality. Inspiration in vein for a multitude of readers who yearn to meet each of his new books. And with hardly ...
Sometimes in the most agile form of a literature concise in its descriptions and agile in its development, we find ourselves with the weight of the deepest reflections. That is in essence the formula of Jablonka, although more than a style it seems that it is simply a form ...
The Literature Pulitzer has a healthy habit of recognizing works in principle without prior commercial requirements. And that's certainly how they end up discovering great works over big names. In the history of awards of this great prize, we find works by authors who hardly wrote before and after ...
Recently I was listening to an interview with Don Arturo Pérez Reverte addressing the issue of nationalities, the feeling of belonging, flags and those who cover themselves with them. The sense of being Spanish is today intoxicated by perceptions, ideologies, complexes and a long shadow of suspicion on ...
There were days when love was lost, and sanity, and every other hint of humanity in the plots of a one-time novel. Javier Castillo already a publishing phenomenon par excellence in Spain. A phenomenon that also already knocks on the doors of many other countries ...
The suggestive mixture of the historical and the intrahistoric seduces any reader with that theatricality of what was witnessed in the first person to become, precisely, a more complete History. The survivors of any nearby period, but subjected to very different circumstances, are those theater characters who intervene very closely ...
Dreams and poetry are born from the same lyricism that hangs over reality with its transforming intention. In both spaces we border that same unconsciousness full of meaning about our most intimate existence. Our vital baggage carries the passing of our time towards that utopia that is to control ...
It seems easy to imagine that when Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale, the story would surely take time to be considered by publishers until its edition in 1985. Those were other times and that of a feminist dystopia would sound as strident as a policewoman starring in a novel black ... And ...