The 3 best books by Carlos del Amor

In the case of the journalist Carlos of Love it was to break for the literary or end up in erotic cinema. Because certain surnames mark. And it will not be because he does not know first-hand the world of cinema in his journalistic tasks ...

Beyond the bromilla (forgive me Carlos if one day you read me), the truth is that the good of Carlos started in the literary field with that first book of stories in which he probed his fondness for telling stories to end up making the leap to the novel soon.

The point is that in his literary development, this author develops with an always admirable versatility. Even more so when it can be considered as a search for stories to tell, belonging to the genre they belong to and whether it deals with the subject of complete fiction or even an essay ...

If to top it off, the author knows how to adjust the scenery to the maximum and characterize his characters with the verisimilitude that each narrative proposal requires, without a doubt the story will always be worth it.

Of course, you also have to know how to handle that narrative rhythm in which to trump turns, unforgettable scenes, tensions awaiting resolution ... And yes, Carlos del Amor knows how to move everything at that necessary rate, like a good conductor of his own characters and scenes.

Top 3 recommended books by Carlos del Amor

Collusion

When an author you don't expect in the genre of science fiction He dives into this rich genre for all kinds of approaches, he has already won me over from the start. Requests from an amateur CiFi writer who is the one who subscribes this entry.

When I started reading this novel I thought I was going to find myself halfway between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and the movie Memento. In a sense that's where the shots go. Reality, fantasy, reconstruction of reality, the fragility of memory ... But in this type of work there is always something new, surprising aspects that bring the reader closer to the possible twists and turns of the mind, the perception of the self and the reality formed in an indefinable percentage of subjectivity plus another as much of the objectivity that others count.

El Korsakov syndrome It is a real pathology, also known as conspiracy, where it is your own mind that is conspiring, generating a reality that you never know what will be true. I really liked that touch of science fiction inserted into the everyday that this disease brings to the whole of the work. It is not a question of great scientific or metaphysical elucubrations, it is rather a question of extrapolating the effects of forgetting, of selective memory, of the disturbed memories that we are all making in order to empathize to a certain degree with Andrés, this singular character who, through of a mind affected by this singular pathology, it asks us how we live our own sensations, how we assume the role of our I with all the most interesting ramifications in terms of love, our own identity, our being based on memories and need to turn to them to feel precisely that: me.

In short, an interesting story very well worked, convincing in terms of the chaos that necessarily governs a character like this and surprising from the beginning to the end in terms of the solutions that Andrés finds to stay afloat between reality and suspicion. of fiction.

The year without a summer

A story about estrangement that is finding yourself in your big city when everyone else has left, escaping to the lost paradise of the resort or the town house.

The first-person voice of the protagonist of a writer in the making who, luckily, destiny or whatever, finds a bunch of keys in his block. And it turns out that with them you can enter all the floors full of echoes waiting for their owners to return. The voyeuristic instinct of the everyday, of knowing more about the lives of those who you usually come across in the elevator. With that tension of a voice that tells us everything it finds out with morbid randomness, our curiosity awakens as if it were our own block.

But in your particular investigation that can fill you with curious ideas to write about, some surprises await you that will assail your boring summer and that will turn your whole life upside down. With certain analogies to the Spanish and later film «The author«, You will end up tied to this disturbing plot from that peering into the abyss of the daily lives of others.

Life sometimes

A perfect concept of the title for what ends up being shelled in the development of the book. That "sometimes" introduces us almost poetically in the jump from one to other scenarios through which the thread moves. A thread that sews with the improvisation of the peremptory the brushed moments in the mosaic of so many lives rescued in moments for the final representation.

Little by little distant lives come together, disparate events, circumstances plunged into the passing of a single time cut off for the same pattern of existence and which stands out in its intense polychromies. The selection of those moments that sometimes occur make up a single scene in which the work is time, the eternity of the moment, for better or for worse.

And while life is woven together with the most unsuspected whims, the same melody sounds to the beat of the heartbeat of characters that squeeze their lives every second.

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Excite you

Carlos de Amor shows, in his plot versatility, that there is no flower of a day but narrative exploration from science fiction to essay. The typical journey of the writer occupied in exploiting creativity, in fertilizing all possible fields between imagination and reason. Nothing better than the case of this present book to discover it.

With a literary and deeply informative, seductive and personal style, Carlos del Amor offers us a travel by thirty-five works of all time, with special attention to the female painting and the Spanish, International. A journey through textures, colors, chiaroscuro, stories, looks, lives, hugs, kisses ..., which reveals a kaleidoscope where truth and fiction come together, history of art, imagination and emotion.

«Art is a celebration. A frame It does not end in what its frame encloses, a painting lives before and after we look at it. The framework limits it and we must cross that border to make its existence continue to skip centuries and lives, and it is renewed with each glance. Each painting is a story, a novel, a story, and that is what I have tried to reflect on these pages: breaking the frame and expanding the canvas as far as possible ».

portray yourself

Carlos del Amor goes a step further in the journey through the paintings that he undertook with Emozandote. This time he focuses on the portrait, a genre that allows him to recreate the lives of those portrayed and of the artists, and how the latter also portray themselves in his way of painting. 

The choice of his models or the commissioned portraits, the realistic fidelity to the sitter or the artist's perception of him, the self-portrait practiced by so many, who the models were and what lives they led, the difficulties in accepting the work by whoever commissions it or by the public, are part of the intimate history of these works that we will discover in the book.

With his characteristic literary style, Carlos del Amor shows us a world behind each painting and, once again, reveals to us that there have been many women artists, and very little known until now.