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Already pointing to a new reference for the noir genre in Spain, Antonio Mercero, however, cultivates a novel that distorts any type of noir of our days. Because it is true that the author enjoys the service that these types of novels provide for exposing social miseries...
We all talk to God at some point in our life. Either sporadically to find a way out of some predicament or to entrust our luck to his most propitious design. The point is that few make explicit these conversations between the human being and his maker. Except for cases like Manuel's ...
As for everything, you have to be worth to be a transgressor. Otherwise the thing remains in a bland and naive attempt to stand out from a mediocrity that ends up being its own. In the case of Franck Maubert, with his appearance between a Joaquín Sabina weighing in kilos and a Houellebecq ...
She has to be a very good writer to reach the levels of success she has achieved with a name so impenetrable to readers from Oslo to the south. I remember the case of another illustrious Icelander, Arnaldur Indriðason, who seems to hide his real name in that kind of anagram. But …
As prolific as he is unfortunate in the most popular literary success, Hubert Mingarelli left in 2020 as the eternal promise of French literature. But of course, this gala narrative has been dominated internationally for good years by authors such as Houllebecq, Lemaitre or Fred Vargas. ...
Officially it was Dashiel Hammett who originated the noir genre. And yet, Raymond Chandler, Hammett's contemporary, had a fundamental role in the dissemination of this genre as a derivative of the detective story, with the most sordid implications of what was a new type of literature determined to reveal from...
There are those who, like Sergio Pitol, are writers in that other alternative life that passes while fate ensues. If we had more lives, each of us would be a different thing in the new outings, but time is what it is and Sergio Pitol has already done enough to ...
In the style of a JD Barker, only with a more dystopian plot, the also American Blake Crouch is one of those authors who fascinates with his characters and his actions at full speed, ideal for adapting to movie or series scripts (as it happens to him Really). In its …
Even in the literary sense, it may be that we tend towards a maddening ethnocentrism, punished even more in this case with a certain cultural elitism. We are fascinated by finding the exotic taste of a Murakami novel because Japan, even though it is a distant country, is a first world country, that is, it belongs to ...
The thematic specialization acquires in the narrative of Ben Pastor a very remarkable point of deepening. Either the Third Reich as a setting to delve into interiorities and intrahistories extended during various installments thanks to its researcher Martín Bora; or also ancient Rome where to accompany a singular Elio ...
A bad student is one who does not surpass his teacher, it used to be said. A child is also a student when he dedicates himself to the same task as his parent. And yes, in the case of Jonathan Littell he aims to surpass Robert, his father. Because Jonathan Littell junior has that award…
The undoubted dramatic vein of Yasmina Reza marks her prose foray into that same theatricalization of everything. Something notorious especially in his characters more than overexposed overexposed to the world. Because in friction with the world there are those who suffer injuries and those who feel a pleasant friction. That's what it's about ...