3 best books by Francisco García Pavón

If there is an author who links the thriving black genre of his time with a more indigenous narrative, loaded with traditionalism and brilliant in its heterogeneous final presentation, that is Francisco Garcia Pavon.

To immerse yourself in any of García Pavón's novels is to enjoy police adventures and misadventures around a powerful imaginary that satirizes between its plots for disturbing moments, always with notes of suspense and endings that point to creative resolutions at the height of the great feathers. of the Police genre.

In Plinio, or rather Manuel González, we find the particular figure that heads many of the novels by García Pavón. And in this municipal police we discover a normal and ordinary guy, without the stereotypes of cursed protagonists who balance between good and evil. Plinio's thing is to undo wrongs between what is criminal or what is criminal. Nothing more and nothing less.

So we enjoy a literature that accompanies recent times of a Spain between constructions and contradictions. Together with Plinio and many other characters we chronicle what we have experienced with the intensity of plots that, of course, are also highly entertaining.

3 best novels by Francisco García Pavón

The red sisters

Nothing better than a first invitation to estrangement to thin a singular case like that of the red-haired sisters who capitalize on the focus of this novel. How not to know them? Plinio knows who they are (or were because their disappearance points to anything).

The daughters of the notary of his town, Tomelloso. And now they have disappeared, awakening suspicions and fantasies among those who knew the two twins and redheads for more general sarcasm. The earth has swallowed two sixties from a trigger as unfathomable as a simple phone call.

Good old Plinio will have to take charge of the case with Lotario, a veterinarian with Sherlock Holmes aspirations. From Tomelloso to Madrid, offering a very juicy look at the uses and customs of the two Spains.

The threads of the case will be formed into sturdy rails for the particular team of investigators. And perhaps everything points, once again, to atavistic envy of a Cainite country.

The Red Sisters, by Francisco García Pavón

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Tomelloso is the reflection of every great city emblematic of the great detective novels. And it is in Tomelloso where the dark vicissitudes that the traditional Iberian hero, Plinio, always face.

The reference to the mythological episode of the title points to that grotesque translation to the author's reality. Tomelloso is now the new Rome in which two women, Sabina and Clotilde, also seem to have been kidnapped by some depraved person.

The case is being clarified soon, but maintaining the necessary suspense of any novel investigation. However, under the case the author takes the opportunity to stage better than ever that emblematic microcosm of the social that extends to a generalized idiosyncrasy of the Spanish.

Everything can have a lyrical revision, the worst and the best of what each place or each person is. The sieving with which the author atomizes sociological, moral, circumstantial and entirely human essences at the end of the day, enriches the plot and reconverts it to a narrative more tending to a fascinating realism.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by García Pavón

The reign of Witiza

García Pavón's taste for the most grotesque characterization always opens the way to reading with a smile as well as the disturbing doubt about the final result of such particular stagings.

Antonio El Faraón, in whose nickname we already guessed that kind of slyness to qualify who is considered more than the others of Tomelloso, puts Plinio on alarm about the desecration of a family niche.

What really happens and Plinio and his collaborator and veterinarian Don Lotario discover is that someone has left another body inside the niche and has taken care to close it tight. Perhaps thinking that no one would notice or simply by improvisation ... The resemblance of the deceased with King Witiza gives the investigation a point between the mythological and the ridiculous. Because many can even believe in reincarnation, in the most extraordinary esoteric.

The famine always aroused the imagination and ingenuity towards picaresque or superstition, if necessary. With the idea of ​​satirizing that composition that is part of the popular imagination, Plinio and Don Lotario will advance in the discovery of all the extremes of the case. Between laughs and curious twists, this novel turns into a great criminal plot punctuated by humor and criticism.

The Reign of Witiza, by García Pavón
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