The 3 best books by Bernardo Atxaga

After the presentation of his book Houses and tombs, Bernardo atxaga He announced that he was leaving the novel. As if I could do it ...

I'm sure more books will arrive soon. And perhaps someone will change the name to the surprise of discovering once again abounding in the fictional settings. Because what one is capable of creating, only one can be. But undoubtedly it will continue to be a narrative in the form of a novel that will assail us again with that rabid closeness of this Hemingway Basque.

I dare to assure you because in my humble dedication to this storytelling, the satisfaction of considering you a father and creator of new worlds, no matter how small, great, irrelevant or transcendent, I do not believe that it can be condemned with an eventual firmness of will.

And so, we can continue to enjoy plots set by chance in disparate historical settings. And I say by chance because the powerful strength that Bernardo Atxaga grants to his characters makes the temporal irrelevant, turning their stories into eternal tales of protagonists made above all souls with the excellence of the thread of dialogues, reflections and descriptions filled with that melancholic lyric of the transience of existence.

Top 3 recommended novels by Bernardo Atxaga

Houses and tombs

Perhaps it is due to the intensity of the plot, to that wear and tear that happens to the word end. Thus, the writer Bernardo Atxaga assures that this will be his last novel, until he recovers his breath, as it happens to the rest of the readers who finish the 424 fascinating pages of this plot.

We travel to Ugarte to pivot around its small universe in two settings on either side of Franco's dictatorship. In a way it is the same before or after, these are turbulent times because the figure of the dictator or his shadow seem to be the same thing.

In the gray worlds dictated by power, the small intra-stories acquire the diamond shine among the coal. Eliseo, Donato, Celso and Caloco become the little innocents with whom we traverse that gray world also dotted with the mineheads where Ugarte's men give their souls for a salary.

With them we make that transition from the seventies to the eighties and beyond to the present. The traceability of their lives dotted with tragedy, friendship, rebellion, hope and death is one of those adventures insurmountable by any fantasy. Because there is no greater fantasy than living, dreaming, remembering and having the gift to write it.

Houses and Tombs, by Bernardo Atxaga

Obabakoak

The great international success of Bernardo Atxaga. One of those novels in which the author's gifts are also aligned with the muses to finish the round work. Because if Atxaga's thing is to always offer a rich polyphonic composition, in this case the essential virtue and interest as a narrator reached that level of a new world embodied in the pages of a novel.

As with Macondo, or even with Castle Rock, when a writer is capable of generating life that is absolutely visible, almost tangible, loaded with aromas and sensations that even transmit like literature made tactile, it can be said that Bernardo Atxaga reaches that Olympus of writers who create new imperishable worlds.

Obaba is a very special place where we live among its perpetual or passing inhabitants, cohabiting with their concerns and being part of their decisions from their guilt, sorrows, pains or unspeakable passions.

And that way of knowing about the detail of the characters is shaping the fabric of community existence, of the disparate notes of life inside and outside each house, of the truths and lies that make the whole of reality. Magic in the form of literature that slides from soul to soul as matter of the same life in essence.

Obabakoak, by Bernardo Atxaga

The Accordionist's Son

In many moments of reading Bernardo Atxaga's novels that impression of melancholy slips, like a Milan Kundera determined to begin to narrate with more vigor his brilliant literary reflections.

There is no doubt that time, as a theme, that the passage of days as an argument always awakens longing as an inescapable compass. The question is how Atxaga addresses the essentials of the subjective world that each person constructs from that dynamism of the captivating plot, of life made an adventure by whatever contingency it may be, whether it comes more or less favorable or unfavorable.

In that balance that surely helps the author to approach books of many other genres such as children's or youth literature on other occasions, lies the reader's taste for complete harmony with what each person has experienced or with what one senses that one will have to live.

Because in the interim of each life thousands of things can happen, including wars and exiles that we suffer as readers. That is part of the adventure that we will tell, but the essential thing, for better or worse, is that in the best of cases, we will have to tell how we have reached the foothills of the end, whether to our children, our grandchildren or ourselves. .

The Accordionist's Son
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