The 3 best books by Nicole Krauss

The easy thing is to have a godfather to help you achieve glory, success or a janitor position in the Provincial Council. The difficult thing is finding that godfather when no ties bind you to him. And that, in the field of any art, only arises from full conviction in the work of the new applicant.

Something like that happened with Philip Roth upon discovering the young writer Nicole krauss. Of course, to convince a genius of literature you have to be of his own kind (understand his narrative style) and that is Nicole shares that part of ancestral uprooting creatively oriented towards the baring of the soul with the lyrical brilliance of an outstanding student also in the field of poetry on which she cultivated for years.

It should also be noted, in that kind of existential taste, his particular harmony with many Spanish-speaking writers who on both sides of the Atlantic have also delved into a kind of existentialism from metafiction, playing between the borders of reality and the imagined, synthesizing a kind of very vivid characters to end up chronicling very diverse aspects but always in tune with the most human notion of any event. Precisely in this, in the thematic diversity, Krauss finds one of his pillars to captivate readers of all kinds.

You can abound in love, in consciousness, in history as core themes from which thousands of disquisitions about life arise in each new story. Always through images pregnant with emotion between a lucid estrangement that rethinks everything. And in these conflicts, good Nicole moves with fascinating agility.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Nicole Krauss

In a dark jungle

On some occasion Nicole has been asked why she gave up the poetry that once cultivated so much. His answer was that he fell in love with the novel, with that discovery of its narrative capacity. This is undoubtedly so. Because in her last story we only discover the author surpassing herself.

Jules and Nicole are the characters who, step by step, in a way at times intended and sometimes improvised, have been leading into the darkness of that jungle that announces the title.

The plot moves in a range of perfection (if perfection can have any range), which at times is restless, irritated by what it means to discover the soul, of your soul as a reader.

Because it is one thing to be told about the adventures of Jules and Nicole and quite another to discover how they both live in your being, with your same doubts and your same desires.

The decoration is already the least important thing. The meeting of the protagonists in a hotel in Tel Aviv could take place in your living room. But in addition, seasoning everything that the novel already has of beautiful existential composition, an enigmatic destiny is opening up for Nicole and collaterally for Jules.

Everything fits when we discover that the escape from oneself can only end in the solitude of the desert or in the humid and dark jungle most unknown and unknown.

In a dark jungle

The love story

Pretentious title that, perhaps without looking for it, reaches the sensation of becoming the most certain dissertation on that possible History of the essential. And as almost always everything starts from the smallest, from the inside out, from closure to discovery.

A novel that makes literature magic through Leo Gurky, the man who gets up to look out the window of his last days thanks to a package that arrives unexpectedly, and through Alma Singer, a teenager overshadowed by her circumstances .

They are both united by a book titled "The Story of Love," a cryptic novel, difficult to understand in its mix of surreal aphorisms turned into dialogues.

Love can be the great story or perhaps the story of that book ends up discovering the love of the characters. After the mystery of the coincidences that places both characters in the same scene, which improvisation theater, the meaning of everything is traced, even the most difficult concepts that are narrated in that novel that almost no one has been able to read.

The love story

The big house

Not infrequently you end up considering the possibility of life in the inert. The scent of a garment that reminds us of someone, the table that insists on destroying our little toe, the bottle that slips from us to break into a thousand pieces on the floor ... Okay, that's a crude example, worth the joke.

But I have not found a better introduction to approach this story on a desk. Yes, one of those pieces of furniture full of charm with its drawers, its shelves, its covers and other elements.

The one who stars in this story belonged to Federico García Lorca, with which it already has its substance. But the most curious of all is how this piece of furniture continues to collect experiences between the knots of its noble wood. And yes, "he" is the protagonist in their evolution from one to another, from salons to warehouses, captivating some owners and repudiated by others.

Nothing that happens around him can mutate him. And yet, things happen precisely with him present. A journey from Manhattan to Chile, passing through Oxford, from places where he is pampered like a jewel to warehouses where oblivion threatens a termite attack...

It may seem like a disjointed narrative, until you discover that it is the desk that marks the times in its existence, precisely without consciousness or time.

The big house

Other recommended books by Nicole Krauss

be a man

Maybe that was it. Masculinity can be better characterized, defined but also caricatured from a feminine perspective that exposes the other side to finally find the synthesis of a definition of the masculine that, like everything human, always has several focuses.

Considered one of the most distinguished voices in American fiction, the prestige of Nicole Krauss has only increased since her leap into the literary arena with The Story of Love, a novel translated into more than thirty-five languages ​​and from which More than a million and a half copies have been sold.

On this occasion, Krauss speaks to us about more or less questionable and questionable masculinities, about the dichotomy between the promise of tenderness and the threat of violence that the figure of man contains, and the fine line that separates both facets.

Beautiful, smooth and slightly melancholic, these stories offer a refined and seamless image of the emotional gap that separates men and women.

be a man
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