Journalist Concostrina Snow he has always aimed at that more literary version of the communication profession. Because we can always find Nieves, with an admirable gift of ubiquity, wherever they are told curiosities, anecdotes, even unique epitaphs from which to peek into the lives of some famous people.
And, of course, with that journalistic version more tending to rescue the anecdotal and reconstruct from there experiences, biographies and, after all, History in its most internal vision, Concostrina differs from other narrators, journalists and chroniclers.
Because the official function of those who witness what they have experienced is no longer to comply with dictates but to faithfully transmit what happens. And that's when the ridiculous and grotesque appear to the most famous characters like a shadow impossible to reduce in the light of a real resounding sun.
Top 3 recommended books by Nieves Concostrina
Past imperfect
It is good to learn from History to avoid repeating mistakes. But the thing does not go beyond a mere slogan if it is not also learned from the humorous view of the matter. Because History is also the common thread of our miseries as a civilization. A concatenation of true facts, anecdotes and ridiculous nonsense that is also worth learning to end up inserting that critical vision of history.
This new book by Nieves Concostrina begins in the Year of the Pear and reaches our times, passing, of course, through Fernando VII. In these new stories you will be able to discover the consequences that the only criadilla of the last Austria brought, know that we smoke because of Columbus, demystify May 2, know that Cristina de Borbón was the queen of corruption and be surprised by the decoration that Franco gave her. planted a communist.
A work to understand that in history all past time, as well as before, was imperfect. Hilarious account of Spanish and Western history. It should be read by everyone who wants to learn, laugh and get a critical look at what happened. It does not try to indoctrinate at all, quite the contrary; the author intends to break with paradigms and great feats. Whoever is looking to put aside all "isms" (nationalism, racism, classism, Eurocentrism, etc etc etc) should read this work. A 10!
Little stories of history
If we go back to the past, many of the scenes lived by our ancestors convey a notion of the most transcendental ridicule. To look at what we were is to see that riding of contradictions that in some (almost all) occasions is worse than in others. As will happen to us when a curious alien contemplates our legacy ...
Anecdotes, nonsense, rowdy and stupid of humanity
How is it possible that Adolf Hitler was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize? What was Búfalo Bill doing hanging out with the Sioux on the Ramblas in Barcelona? Was the Marquis de Sade, father of sadomasochism, a sensitive man? How many people actually listened to Orson Welles's famous radio talk of War of the Worlds?
Universal history is undoubtedly the best anecdote there is. The future of humanity is a continuum of nonsense, coincidences, exaggerations, curiosities and defamations. Nieves Concostrina -who already delighted us with the funniest "adventures" of the dead in Polvo eres- leads us with a lot of humor on a surprising journey through some of the most curious facts that have shaped our history.
Antonia
It never hurts to take a tour of the fictional work of an author as creative as Nieves Concostrina. Even more so because in this case it is simple given its brief, albeit brilliant, appearance in the world of the novel.
On Kings Day 1930, Antonia was born in the traditional Calle del Águila in Madrid. Juana was almost forty years old when she brought into the world her first and only daughter, a creature as plump as the cauliflowers that she sold in the Santa Isabel market.
This is how the protagonist of this novel came into the world, the first written by Nieves Concostrina and in which, with her usual humor and ingenuity to recreate real situations that in most cases surpass any fiction, she pays a just tribute to the generation that survived the war and the post-war between the picaresque, the misery and the hustle and bustle.
Antonia is one of the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who did not know well-being until the sixties; anonymous heroes and heroines who worked hard so that her children would not suffer the same story. This is the life of a woman who went from having the streets as her only school to playing on the stock market at the age of seventy.
Other recommended books by Nieves Concostrina
It turns out that it is not a little
From the program or podcast to the book. For all Nieves Concostrina listeners, capable of reviewing history with the necessary critical point. Everything that happened was written in official chronicles. But since even Aznar wrote his biography with Napoleonic overtones, it never hurts to obtain new sources so that the great historical figures do not go too far and end up telling things a little closer to how they really were...
Popes who no longer die as God intended, kings who thought they were frogs, princes incognito in Madrid, desperate cooks, fake nuns, spiritualist deputies There is everything in this new compendium of events narrated with Nieves' unique and hilarious point of view Concostrina, from a rebound Nobel Prize, to an unearthed marquis or an invasion of virgins. Because History, in addition to being entertaining, can be told with a lot, a lot of humor.
