The literature coming out of Aragon, and especially from the handwriting of Aragonese writers, stands out for its bomb-proof quality. Authors like Irene Vallejo or Sara Barquinero herself, each one in her own style, both dazzling with a creative imprint for the highest quality literature.
Achieving a transcendent level of reading can be achieved from different focuses. The essay always aims at that, at embroidering the ideas for the most harmonious whole around the idea. From the fiction side the matter takes on another dimension. Because it is more complex to give life and action to the plot, while searching for those notions that raise existential doubts or that dare with shadows of answers with which to hook the most demanding reader.
Sara's arrival in the novel is a blessing in that sense. Because famous new voices are always necessary when it comes to voices with personality, daring, capable of stirring consciences, of transforming, whatever they touch and that always corresponds to the creative facet of humanity to overcome the inertia of each era.
Top 3 recommended books by Sara Barquinero
I will be alone and without a party
It is true that it is difficult to find new voices that speak of love rooted in vitalism, with philosophy, with transcendence from the touch of the skin or even from orgasm. And that the matter is a whole narrative challenge where the writer or writer on duty can demonstrate, if not lost in the attempt, that literature really reaches the spaces that no other art or field of knowledge covers.
A clever young philosopher takes over from Milan Kundera, Beauvoir or even of kierkiegaard. Her name is Sara Barquinero and for such a substantial task she is done with her particular Agnes called Yna in her case. What Yna was able to experience and feel, what may remain of her in her forgotten future in the form of a diary, ends up giving meaning to any other life that appears to even ontological doubts in the simple endeavor to live.
Who is Yna? Why has her private diary, a chronicle of her crush on Alejandro in 1990, appeared in a container in Zaragoza? The protagonist of I will be alone and without a party He can't help but ask himself these questions when he finds Yna's old handwritten notebook. There is something in the simple prose of this stranger that makes her want to know more.
Her story has a contagious force that, despite the distance, forces her to think about herself, to the point of putting her whole life on hiatus to begin an investigation that will take her to Bilbao, Barcelona, Salou, Peñíscola and , finally, back to Zaragoza. Is it true that no one went to Yna's birthday on May 11, 1990? Does it make sense that the love of your life never called you? What did this great romantic obsession respond to? And where will its protagonists be now? Will they still live?
With echoes of Roberto Bolaño and Julio Cortázar, the very young philosopher and writer Sara Barquinero builds an amazing story of desire and intrigue that runs through Spain, and that is the first stone of an ambitious narrative project: a return to the philosophical novel without giving up the dizzying pulse.
Scorpions
That humanity has certain shades of self-destructive civilization, there is no doubt. Inability to observe that the finite cannot become infinite through the work and grace of our ambitions has a lot of explanation for this. From there you can connect in a certain way with this proposal that delves into the self-destructive motives of humans as a group and as individuals...
The Scorpions is a novel of novels: a titanic and mysterious narrative work. The protagonists, Sara and Thomas, find themselves involved in the web of a conspiracy theory directed by political and economic powers, who seek to control individuals through hypnosis and subliminal messages in books, video games and music to induce them. to suicide. Both carry emotional imbalances and, while an unclassifiable and powerful relationship is woven between them, they decide to investigate this sect whose name is that of one of the few animal species that prefers to kill itself rather than continue enduring pain.
From Italy in the 1920s, through the deep south of the United States in the 1980s, to present-day Madrid, Bilbao, a lost town in rural Spain, and New York, this is a story about existential angst. , loneliness and the need to believe in something, whatever it may be, to find the meaning of life. Sara Barquinero provides a reading experience that obsesses, disturbs and drags the reader to the end.
Port
The fleeting encounters. The transitions of life between scene and scene. There where we are not yet us with our conditions and circumstances. Those places of passage like duty frees of existence, without emotional burdens with their taxes... Until reality returns, at least, with its persistent determination to cling to what we were.
Two people meet in an airport waiting room. She goes to visit her partner while she waits for a lover's response to a proposal; He makes what will probably be her last trip. Faced with the boredom and anguish that each of them suffers, they start a conversation about love, guilt, death, motherhood and the difficulty of being an adult and leading an authentic life. Meanwhile, behind his back, a boy returning to his country after a stay funded by an NGO, debates whether or not to commit a small crime.
