3 best books by Pablo d'Ors

In the wake of Chesterton made a fervent Catholic and fearless writer thanks to Father John O'Connor, another father but of our day called Pablo d'Ors professes a office of writing with that band of the catholic as horizon. And that the matter ends up being invaluable in both cases, if we only dedicate ourselves to his fiction literature without other conditions, it speaks very much in favor of an indoctrinating flawless Catholicism.

Yes sirs. More than some (and it is not that I am a convinced Catholic precisely), guys like Pablo d'Ors make the Catholic move in tune with the times. It is clear that in its essay aspect, Pablo d'Ors's ideology addresses the spiritual under the parameters of his faith. But it is about that, about essays, by the way very well received by critics, where the author ransacks his own imaginary in order to contribute his clairvoyance, to find solutions or to launch projections of ideas at least ..., of that it deals with free thought.

In one way or another, whether we take one of his novels or one of his essays, when we finish reading we will come out enriched, fed by good literature, which is what it is all about.

Top 3 recommended books by Pablo d´Ors

Biography of Light

Every religion always needs an adaptation over time. As far as those educated in Catholicism are concerned, for example parables can be guiding symbols but are completely out of date in their more precise imaginary. That is why it never hurts for someone like Pablo to rake his brains to bring to the present what so much positivity has a religion in the face of the construction of the individual from within.

This essay collects, with as much modesty as ambition, a spiritual itinerary for the man and woman of today. An essential rereading, as simple as it is profound, of the legacy of Christ, beacon of humanity. The gospel as a map of consciousness and as a permanent existential provocation.

Biografía de la luz is a text designed for all spiritual seekers and, therefore, written from a cultural rather than a confessional perspective. A path, as radical as possible, for enlightenment, understanding it as something simple and everyday. A kind of poetic manual of interiority, in which some of the countless images and metaphors outlined by the evangelists are presented, which are authentic mirrors of human identity.

A book to review life itself and to discover, behind the noise of the shadows, that we would not seek the luminous if we were not, after all, beings of light. In the vein of his previous literary installments -El forgetfulness of oneself, Enthusiasm, the acclaimed Biography of Silence ... - Pablo d'Ors is now giving us his definitive work. We all need reflections like these, so transparent: stories that help us to see things again as they are. As we surely saw them when we were children. Images and ideas that make it clear that life is not far or outside, but inside and here.

Adventures of the printer Zollinger

There is a certain fondness for cynicism, disenchantment, detachment from everything that supposedly educates us about good over evil. And sometimes stories emerge that reconcile us with what we learned to be good neighbors above so many teachings of hatred that are being imposed on us. It happens sometimes, in a movie like «We were never angels»Or in another adventure book like this ...

To save his own life, young August Zollinger leaves his hometown and goes on a wandering life. What at first is imposed on him as a bitter exile ends up becoming a path of learning: he will meet true love in the tiny sentry box of a railway station, where he receives a call from a mysterious telephone operator every day; you will discover the most faithful camaraderie and friendship in the ranks of the army; you will experience solitude in the most remote forests of your country, where you will learn the secret of the trees; and, above all, she will indulge in the humblest trades until she discovers her beauty and dignity.

This long initiatory journey will make him a man of integrity, capable of returning home to become what he had dreamed of since he was a child: the printer of his town. A delicate moral fable with an unforgettable and necessary character. A story as simple as it is prodigious with echoes of Hesse, Walser and Kafka. A limpid parable about the human condition.

The friend of the desert

In literature, for me the desert is Saint Exupery imagining The Little Prince in a hallucination, or Vazquez Figueroa soaking up the Tuareg culture among the dunes of the Sahara. It is also with this book a part of the taciturn Pavel in search of the Oasis that always emerges from the well within us.

An enigmatic association, called 'Friends of the desert', leads Pavel to change the course of his life. In his repeated trips to the Sahara, at first accompanied by Friends and finally alone, the protagonist of this story enters the desert, that metaphor of infinity.

Nothing is what it seems. Each character, each situation invites the most important adventure, which is none other than the inner one. There are countless artists, thinkers and mystics who have done their bit in the poetics of emptiness. With neatness and sobriety, Pablo d'Ors inserts himself into this tradition and takes a daring step in depth in his narrative work. A book about self-search and contemplation. A gift for those who love the literature of light.