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Nobody better than Albert Espinosa to make us travel through vital narrative proposals that exude resilience. The generous and optimistic stamp of this author is reflected on each page. A real pleasure to discover one of the creators who in the best way opens us to empathic worlds, to humor ...
The legacy of the Juan Rulfo most committed to the chronicle of estrangement, combining crude realism and sparks of metaphorical fantasy, finds in Guillermo Arriaga that kind of continuation of any school that tends to be associated with each country. And that the Mexican school has as many possible ramifications as ...
That History as a so-called science also has parts of speculation is confirmed once again by the fact that precisely a historian like Harari has become one of the most recognized current essayists on the emergence and paths of our civilization. Because Harari moves between…
There is no better setting than the interwar period to locate a saga of the most intense noir genre. Tough times where grudges were embers waiting for the most opportune current to rekindle. Jacqueline Winspear takes us through her most recognized series until the early 30s, with…
To speak of the renowned Miguel de Cervantes Award 2017, Sergio Ramírez, is to speak of a controversial author, to the extent that every politically significant writer always ends up being branded as tendentious. But, in an objective analysis of his work of fiction, of its literary quality per se, one cannot ...
Joseph Heller's literature was born with that seal of maturity of the writer already back from everything. This is how one discovers in the narrative of this American author a taste for reduction to the absurd, for humor, for unfiltered criticism. Nothing to do with other illustrious pilots…
It can be said that John Verdon is not exactly a precocious writer, or at least he could not dedicate himself to writing with the profusion of other authors who have already discovered their vocation from an early age. But the good thing about this job is that it is not guided by age guidelines, nor ...
If there is an author in Spain who has a hard fight with Javier Sierra for holding the flag raised at the top of the great mystery genre, that is Juan Gómez-Jurado. Since his first book appeared back in 2007, on the embers of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, this...
The mystery genre is the most intrinsic to literature that we can imagine. Since the novel is a novel, the enigmatic as a plot base is prolonged in almost every narrative. Even more so considering that one of the most illustrious first novels is the brilliant story in the code of ...
We don't always look at the translators, those who appear among the credits of the books of our favorite authors. But lo and behold, Pàmies's work translating the inexhaustible Amelie Nothomb is so noticeable that he ends up attracting attention. And one day you...
Come, vidi, vici. There is no better phrase to coin what happened to Joël Dicker in his overwhelming irruption on the world literary scene. You could think of that marketing product that pays off. But those of us who are used to reading books of all kinds recognize that this young author ...
It will not be an easy task to choose the best of a genre as extensive as science fiction literature. But deciding better or worse is always a subjective fact. Because we already know that even flies have their essential eschatological tastes. The best …