Juan Herranz 
The books in search of that positive self always arouse misgivings even in those who subscribe this post. It seems that the reluctance comes from the interpretation of a book of this type as an intrusion into very own plots, or a surrender, an assumption of defeat ...
Perhaps because of the exotic thinking of an Israeli black genre, discovering Dror Mishani is even more fascinating and addictive. As his works arrive in Spain, we will discover in all their magnitude an author from the other side of the Mediterranean who, in terms of scenography, at times reminds ...
Current Canadian literature finds in Michael Ondaatje the third angle of a brilliant literary triangle closed together with Margaret Atwood and of course the Nobel laureate Alice Munro. Arrived at the novel from poetry and finally extending towards the essay or the cinema, Ondaatje is reunited with his ...
The ancient age is closely related to the awakening of the human being as a civilization. Cities, social strata, political organization ... Everything started from Sumer in the 476th century BC. C and officially ended after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in XNUMX ... then it is not that the thing evolved ...
The great Norwegian reference in terms of novels with capital letters is Knut Hamsun. Mainly for its balance between preciousness in an almost lyrical way and from the bottom towards the presentation of great existential dilemmas through characters of great depth. It seems that I have taken very in ...
In the case of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester we find ourselves before one of the last great literary chroniclers of our recent history of the XNUMXth century, together with Miguel Delibes. Probably the taste for narrating the intrahistory of Spain was born with Benito Pérez Galdós. His will as a writer committed to a narrative ...
It is always a good time to recover the debut of one of the best current Spanish writers, Javier Marías. Because this is how the budding narrator is discovered with all the creative university ahead. A privileged rereading that tells us about the narrator's own voice. And also because the ...
In the case of Juan Soto Ivars, you never know if he is the writer who became a journalist or if, on the contrary, he went the other way to get to writing from journalism. I say this because in other cases it is evident that popular journalists approach the ...
And we arrived at who turned out to be, for various reasons, my favorite author when I started out in literature. In a recent entry on Philip K. Dick I quoted the best of the world CiFi. With the father of all I close the thread. And it is that with HG Wells ...
The adventure genre is always a good space in which to develop fascinating plots comparable to the most magnetic crime novels. It is true that this genre towards the knowledge of our world lived its greatest moments of glory long ago. I mean the days when the ...
Today, Patrick Radden Keefe is one of the great references in the research literature. And precisely from those always interesting books on various aspects of our world, good old Patrick also ended up frisking the fictional narrative with that band of writer in charge of ...
I remember the impact that Noam Chomsky's intervention had on me in the current conflict with the region of Catalonia. More than anything, because you always expect from intellectuals a measured, calm intervention, analyzing the facts and the substance. But of course, it's so tempting these days to get close to...