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There were great writers who took the craft as a general rudder for their entire lives. And from that idea, writing becomes an ambition that ends up transcending the character to reach humanity as a whole. Living around literature with the intention of filling it with all…
It has been to remember Eshkol Nevo and to consider that literature is also a matter of publicists. Especially after having recently spoken of cases like those of the French Delacourt or Beigbeder. Because Nevo was also immersed in that of language as a claim and phrases as axioms ...
Jordi Hurtado possesses the gift of immortality (makeup through, that then one gets out of bed first thing in the morning and can look like Nosferatur with a hangover). But the thing about Greater Wyoming aboard programs of different dimensions since his medical degree is as anomalous as it is ultimately hilarious ...
The prose aspect of the essentially poet Zagajewski also arises from that intention to provide an embellished vision of the world. Whether even in the tragic notion that only poets are able to sublimate towards ethereal guilt and pain. And of course, one that is more prose than verse…
When the biography accompanies the author with that halo of mystery or eccentricity, a more sophisticated imaginary ends up being composed around the creative process of the current writer. If there is also the case of a Jeffrey Eugenides who only seems subject to his creative imprint without...
Originality is a trigger for success. Then you have to consider the opportunity and the ubiquity. I say this because Laura Esquivel reached the literary firmament with an original novel that ended up being timely, in this case she did not need ubiquity (euphemism to talk about contacts ...
My first contact with Ramón J. Sender was, as in so many other cases for countless authors, through that magical library at my parents' house. One of those days in which I stopped in front of her and was watching titles, I noticed The Adolescent Bandit, ...
Intimacy as a literary genre acquires in Alice Mcdermott the brilliant connotation of an almost philosophical transcendence. Because in that observation behind the peephole or through windows, with their curtains carelessly opened, we discover the authentic brilliance of everyday life. From behind closed doors, everyone assumes their most...
With the arrival, unfortunately to stay, of the Covid-19 disease (not to call it "supercatarro bastard with possible multiple conditions"), the books on coronavirus proliferated like another pandemic, in parallel to the incipient and neurotic search for information. INDEX The Eyes of Darkness, by Dean Koontz On the front line, by ...