The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
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 …
Expand on the reasons for considering Stephen King As the writer who marked me in my eternal vocation for writing, I could take pages and pages of a great book. Making at least a small point in this regard, I would like to point out my appreciation that the final step towards ...
That the journalist is a confused writer, I have no doubt. From García Márquez to Pérez Reverte we can find many cases of journalists by definition and writers by vocation. I bet my money that the case of Leila Guerreiro is another pillar to confirm this...
The writer Clara Tahoces offers us a sample of the unusual everyday occurrences. Or at least it shows that background capable of explaining the most disconcerting events in reality. This is how writing fact and fiction end up being the same. And this is how readers are fascinated by the style…
The Aragonese writer Irene Vallejo professes a literature of great depth with her inspirations brought from the ancient world. And so it is discovered that his doctorate in classical philology is the result of an undoubted vocation, derived in a literary work that is gaining substance with each new publication. That …
The idealism most committed to the human, in which Sartre participated, is always oriented towards the left, towards the social, towards state protectionism. Partly in response to the citizen but also in the face of the excesses of a market that, freed from all ties, always ends up limiting access to...
Like Frédéric Beigbeder, the Frenchman Grégoire Delacourt approached literature from a world of advertising from which both exported creativity and originality. In the case of Delacourt, possibly with a more literary aspect due to his direct landing in the novel, we enjoy a deep…
Europe in the first half of the 20th century became the worst scenario for a Jewish family like Irène Némirovsky's. Between exile and the perpetual flight from hatred, the will to survive always made its way. Even in the case of some Némirovsky…
On the other side of the pond, two American authors keep alive, in their own way, the flame of the detective genre established in that country by such great men as Hammett or Chandler. I am referring to Michael Connelly and the one I invite to this space today: Karin Slaughter. In both cases of these ...
Imagination at the service of crime. I am not trying to describe an ingenious murderer but rather the writer capable of making the criminal that suggestive argument, between the morbid and the disturbing. And that is where imagination takes on its special relevance, along with the craft of the author in question. …
The most turbulent of spaces in 19th century Europe was undoubtedly the one made up of an Austro-Hungarian Empire that would be crumbled into a thousand (or rather 1894) pieces. Joseph Roth was born in 1939 and grew up in the splendor of the Empire and died in XNUMX, when that strange…
When a writer appears and disappears among his works, without a commercial cadence, you make sure that what he has to tell on each occasion is something that is born from that real imperative of the vocation to write. The story may have taken years, with its comings and goings. EITHER …