The 3 best books by Domingo Villar

The noir genre always welcomes an author as interesting as he was with open arms Sunday Villar. Because this Galician lover of letters was one of those writers who made his work a whole, a scenic symphony of characters, to always be recognized as the creator of the unmistakable stamp that generated, around his novels, a whole new world extracted from the same reality.

If recently we were talking about Xabier gutierrez and its gastronomic noir, the case of Domingo Villar, with a little more experience, became the noir of the Rias Baixas. A thematic noir genre that opens to the world from its casuistry overflowing with authenticity and knowledge of the environment in which everything takes place.

In that terrain of misty Galicia, of Galician stereotypes about contradictory but at the same time brave and determined spirits, Villar built a series of stories around the cases that his emblematic inspector Leo Caldas he faced it with the fortitude of personalities forged on those shores that gaze into eternity between melancholy and hope.

In a proposal with quixotic overtones in the duo that makes up Caldas and his handy assistant Rafael Estévez, the sum of two such different temperaments and loaded with an almost telluric genetic inheritance, presents us with scenarios filled with rich dialogues in a particular rapport, towards resolution. of each new crime, absolutely brilliant.

And from literature to cinema in a round trip. Because knowing Villar's dedication to scriptwriting, some of his stories have already reached the big screen..., in case anyone likes that experience of contrasts between what has been read and what has been seen.

Top 3 recommended books by Domingo Villar

The last ship

The latest installment of the inspector Caldas saga acquires that power of the virtuoso who is gaining trade and who knows how to exploit that inexhaustible vein of a setting as particular as Galicia between Finisterre and Baiona.

In this magical terrain where the land and the sea are magically conjugated in inlets and outlets, anything can happen, even the most unsuspected crimes. That, the crime, appears starkly at the disappearance of Mónica Andrade.

The last storm is giving back to the inhabitants of the Vigo area the land that belongs to them, but in that cyclical transition assumed with resignation, Monica seems to have been swallowed by a now calm sea.

Inspector Caldas takes action on the matter. What he is discovering about Mónica contrasts quite a lot with the information provided by his father, Dr. Andrade. With his usual confidentiality, Caldas will gradually compose that puzzle of secret lives, of underground behaviors, of the doubleness of the human being.

Only by trying to follow in the footsteps of Monica, who apparently never was, will be able to try to resolve that disappearance that, with the passage of time, seems as vast as the Atlantic Ocean itself, which seems to have the answers in a chicha calm that really awaits new moments. precise to charge again.

The beach of the drowned

Secondly, to follow this trend of going against the tide with respect to the publication chronology, I highlight this overwhelming story, filled with that strange feeling of wounding calm between the peace of the infinite space that one seems to see the Galician horizon to the west, and the appearance of violent death taken as one more circumstance of the future of life.

To highlight this strangeness, this book highlights the usual rennet of Caldas with the untimely character of the Aragonese Estévez, a stranger who tries to adapt as best he can to the rhythms of that other extreme side of the peninsula.

When the sea returns a lifeless body, after having macabrely played with it, everyone faces fate as best they can. But in this case the sea has not returned Justo Castelo's body at his whim; someone has caused his death by holding his hands together. Discovering the truth, when it can have very serious repercussions, is never easy. Among the sailors in the area there is a current of opinion about what happened. The price of truth may be too high.

The beach of the drowned

Water eyes

In 2006 came the first and always surprising novel by a budding author who ended up becoming a writer of worth as soon as the work reached that unanimous assessment of a great black plot.

A story that the others anticipated due to the profound presentation of its protagonists. The personality of the inspector Leo Caldas at times becomes the leitmotif of the story, as the author leaves those lures about his mysterious personality that even leads him to dedicate himself to the world of radio in a particular existential confessional.

But also the case of the death of Luis Reigosa gains in intensity as we advance in the story. He was a notable musician, one of those who made a living with know-how, perhaps oriented towards minority genres.

Around the musician, we are discovering a lifestyle in keeping with that bohemian style of so many creators, a lifestyle that is not without risks when so many hearts surrender to their music every night.

Because from love, from passion for music, to hatred, there is not so much distance. And we are not always satisfied when we ask for a new song for our hearts and the musician denies it.

Water eyes
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