Top 3 Philip Pullman Books

Versatility makes the creative genius, even more so in the case of Philip Pullman, a dazzling sense of the vastness in any author's bibliography. Something like this also happens with Alan bennett. And since they are both authors already veteran, it ends up coming off that in playing all the keys correctly has a lot to do with the necessary evolution, change, search, exposure to the new of everyone who intends to tell things to the world. And the writing profession has so many new ways of seeing the world ...

Pullman would not imagine how he would get hold of that literary glory that has now accompanied him since the mid-90s with the take off from his trilogy of Dark matter. And of course it is not necessary to waste the providence with which to gain autonomy.

The good thing about Philip Pullman is precisely that the arrival of success reached him with the necessary solidity not to be swallowed up by his rapid labeling as a best-selling author. And so, even today, he can continue to be read in his adult side, as a playwright, as a short story writer and also intermittently peering into the prequels and sequels of his Dark Matter, youth literature with enough depth to find the reading taste of any age.

Top 3 recommended novels by Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass

We cannot escape the effect of dark matter. Because beyond the commercial hook in young and not so young readers, this novel officially known by Luces del Norte (and turned upside down in Spain by tuning in with the title of the film already previously broadcast from the US), uncovered an intention far beyond the fantasy novelistic.

Because the good old Pullman, as he got, took the opportunity to shake social and religious pillars with that lattice dense enough of the fantastic to create confusion, disconcert and disturb. In fact, that touch to certain religious aspects made it difficult for him to adapt quickly to the cinema, or rather made it impossible for him to succeed in Hollywood.

But later, in Europe, without so much puritanism, the other life on the big screen arrived for this great work. The point is that through the hand of Lyra Belacqua we can discover a new Atreyu of Michael Ende. Only in the case of Lyra, her new fantastic world to discover from the coldest of our planet, will end up splashing more if possible to everything known to mankind.

The Golden Compass

The wild beauty

Leaving behind the great trilogy of dark matter, adjusted to its existence in time and form in those 90s, Pullman has recently set out to revisit that universe. And it is that yes, we continue immersed in the darkness from the matter determined in its opacity to the light, like the great lies of evil, like the trompe l'oeil of other darkness hovering over our closest world.

Malcolm Polstead, a young eleven-year-old teenager, and his daemon Asta live with their parents very close to Oxford. Across the River Thames (where Malcolm regularly sails using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of Wild Beauty) is Godstow Abbey, inhabited by local nuns. Malcolm will discover that they have a very special guest, a girl by the name of Lyra Belacqua ...

The wild beauty

The secret community

Second part of "The Book of Darkness." As a good second part of what points to a trilogy, the action is the predominant element of the plot. Second installment because it is that knot full of scenarios, twists and narrative tension of this inexhaustible fantastic universe.

In the second volume of The Book of Darkness, we see twenty-year-old Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to follow a course in their relationship that they would never have imagined, drawn into the complex and dangerous maelstrom of a world whose existence they did not know. . Malcolm, for his part, also sets out on his own journey: the boy of yesteryear, who took on the mission of saving a baby with his boat, is now a man endowed with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do the right thing.

In that world of theirs, both familiar and extraordinary, they must travel far from the limits of Oxford, to cross Europe and enter Asia, in search of lost elements: a city inhabited by daemons, a secret kept in the heart of a desert. and the elusive mystery of the Dust.

The secret community
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