Don't miss the 3 best books by Jaime Bayly

Discuss Jaime Bayley As a writer it is to illuminate only a small part of the character. And yet, it will surely be the facet in which we best recognize the creativity, ingenuity and imprint that has led him to be an internationally valued journalist, writer and showman.

From Peru to Miami, Bayly transmits in his literature that baggage of the self-made man, of the stereotype of a type tanned in a thousand battles (including politics and the occasional confrontation with himself and also Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa), and focused on literature as atonement, liberation or simply to channel the parallel side of an intense life, from which to extract the best juice to compose their stories.

Around twenty books of undeniable intensity. A bibliography thrown open to the grave towards the most stark, acidic at times and always critical realism. With the irony well used beyond the simply literary and the traces of humor of the narrator back from everything, Jaime Bayly always satisfies

Top 3 recommended novels by Jaime Bayly

Cold chest

Everything is susceptible to change in the plan of Saint Paul falling from the horse or Saint Thomas after digging into the wound. In other words, considering that one can be more meat than fish to point to an unexpected coming out of the closet, can always happen.

It's all a matter of trying it, as that one would say. Cold Chest is not that he is very convinced of having to get close to another man to win his succulent television prize and televised for all of Peru. Question of price. But once hooked to the presenter and exchanging mouth-to-mouth flows, it seemed as if he had actually saved her life in a resuscitation. In this case, his libido and not his soul were revived.

And then the prize takes a backseat. And the social punishment, the apartheid, the contempt is more notorious. Because... who would think of prolonging that kiss between men as if it could really be done without disturbing an entire audience incapable of accepting such an atrocity?

Once he falls from his horse, Cold Chest has little to lose and his dull previous life, from which he initially finds it difficult to escape, moves away from him, seeing it as a disgusting trompe l'oeil that has taken up so many years of his existence. Sexual freedom is still a field to be conquered in so many places. And Cold Chest enjoys his new role as champion of the cause, against everything and everyone, far beyond any cost.

I am a lady

Nothing better to contemplate the conceptual mosaic of Bayly's literature than a volume of stories like this one in which the characters expose themselves (or rather expose us) to current great dilemmas of our society in terms of ideology and morality.

A woman addicted to sex, a deranged husband who chooses the most inappropriate gifts for his wife, a hostess who dreams of retiring, a radio host at dawn, a right-wing gunwoman, a painter who cannot sell her paintings. This universe of characters, this fauna of delusional beings, is the one that inhabits I am a lady.

In these stories, crossed by humor and irony, the author has achieved an oral record that moves between the confession of part, the testimonial story and gossip. You, the reader, will have the impression of sitting in a waiting room with a stranger who, without any shame, will share the most private details of your life, those that normally nobody wants to talk about, but that, to tell the truth, we all enjoy listening.

Do not tell anybody

The debut of a guy with no shame whatsoever about exhibiting that painful social truth that exposes hypocrisies, lukewarmness and double standards, could not help but offer this intensity of takeoff in the literary world.

Loaded with transgressive literary intentions that he will always make use of, Jaime Bayly confronts us with the mirrors of human contradictions explicitly manifested in coexistence, in interaction, in the adjustment of the individual between the general imaginary and his mediocrity. The protagonist of This story is a Dorian Gray confessing his truth before being devoured by his decadent portrait.

"Do not tell anyone" tells what should not have been said about the life of the young protagonist, his sexual aberrations, his adolescent adventures, his perhaps double life, wanting to fit into a highly discriminatory and modest society, trying to fill the gaps. expectations of an uncompromising and chauvinistic father and a somewhat docile and devoted mother. Why shouldn't Bayly tell this story? The plot is full of intense and hilarious situations, it is an excellent book.