One of the great virtues of isaac rose it is his ability to novel everything. It is no longer just a matter of his ability to move between genres, always with the solvency of the writer convinced and equipped with all the good creative tools of the trade (those imported and those that come standard).
What I'm going to is that in that magical projection of our world that can reach transform the everyday into a breeding ground for a potential interesting story, Isaac Rosa dived head first into the indicated broth as Obélix did in the pot of indestructibility.
And so we always end up being speechless with the works of Isaac Rosa, capable as he is of disguising the realism closest to our skin with the trappings of his transforming imagination. It may be through a symbology that enters and leaves our world, which teaches us what there is to reconvert it the next moment into the clairvoyant deformity of what we ultimately have left.
Narrative games made sleight of hand of a particular realism. If in authors like Jesus Carrasco (of a similar narrative fidelity with what we essentially are regardless of plot divergences) we guess a double intention towards estrangement that strips everything, without a doubt Isaac Rosa participates in that intention. Something perhaps more typical of the inertia of the times we live in than of any pretense of generational stamp.
Top 3 recommended novels by Isaac Rosa
Happy ending
It was a matter of turning it around, of setting the hyperbaton to be able to speak of love with the comfort of tracing new paths. Because yes, all love looks better from the end to the beginning, from goodbye to the meeting that seems to implode everything like an inner big bang that reconciles hopes, lost times and existential disenchantments of all kinds.
This novel reconstructs a great love beginning at the end, the story of a couple who, like so many, fell in love, lived an illusion, had children and fought against everything - against themselves and against the elements: uncertainty, precariousness, jealousy, ”he fought not to give up, and fell several times. When love ends, the questions arise: where did everything go wrong? How did we end up like this? All love is a disputed story, and the protagonists of it cross their voices, confront their memories, disagree on the causes, try to get closer. Happy ending is a relentless autopsy of his wishes, expectations and mistakes, where sedimented grudges, lies and misunderstandings emerge, but also many happy moments.
Isaac Rosa addresses in this novel a universal theme, love, from the many conditioning factors that make it difficult today: precariousness and uncertainty, vital dissatisfaction, the interference of desire, the imaginary of love in fiction ... Because it is possible that the love, as we were told, is a luxury that we cannot always afford.
The dark room
One of the novels in which we best discover the author's ability to pass reality through an unexpected filter between the fantastic and the existential, always with his feet clinging to the realism of what we have left (as I try so many times to name ...)
A group of young people decide to build a "dark room": a closed place where light never enters. At first they use it to experiment with new ways of relating, to practice anonymous sex without consequences, through a mixture of play and transgression. As they face maturity with their decisions, disappointments, and setbacks, the darkness becomes a form of relief for them.
With the passage of time, social uncertainty and personal vulnerability are installed in their lives and the dark room then appears as a refuge. Reality is seeping more and more inside, while some think that this is not a time to hide but to fight back, even if their decisions put the rest of the group at risk.
The dark room it is an exploration of the literary possibilities of obscurity but also a generational gaze: a portrait of those who grew up confident in the promise of a better future that they now see wandering away. Through the lives of those who have entered and left it over the course of fifteen years, we see the harsh awakening to the reality of a generation that feels cheated.
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I admit it, the fanciful arguments that connect with our most everyday reality have always won me from the beginning. It will be because of what they connect with our most imaginative side, the part of the brain that leads us at the least expected moment to the most remote place on Earth, to the fourth dimension or the bedroom of our most unspeakable desire.
The meeting with your double pointed to science fiction, dystopia, scientific fantasy or even some duplicity, a space-time fold. The point is that Isaac Rosa takes it here as a turning point to give that turn to life always desired to some extent ... There was Valeria, at the bus stop, on a Monday in September, thinking about her things. Also pending on her phone, waiting for Laura to answer her last message, suspecting that her former colleagues had set up another chat group without her.
Then he raised his eyes. And he found it. At the stop in front. The other. Her double, identical to her. What would you do if you ran into someone just like you? That there is no one like you? Yes of course. Do not think that you are so special. You are not unrepeatable, nor a unique specimen. If you have never found anyone like you, keep looking. Valeria's life changed.
