Prolific writer like few others and with reason in terms of his critical thinking that goes from his public manifestations to his literary works. Fernando Savater makes commitment a value to be recovered. And so he makes it clear in his work, sometimes focused on that intention to motivate young people, to guide them in that search for will and positive effort as a reason to proceed, to think and to act.
It is easy to understand that almost obsessive idea of ​​motivation, the common thread of his own life. Savater radiates vitalism, his novels incite action. An action that he himself always carried as an emblem. When he had to demonstrate in the face of the last impositions of the Franco regime, he resolutely refused and ended up leaving the country.
In his literary work it is not only the adventure or the plot of the genre that is (because it has not touched sticks, from the police to the fantastic or the philosophical as something close), behind it always lies the virtue of the example from which to extract that critical thought, that metaphysical intention overturned as a spring or dosed in droplets, from which everyone can learn to be a little more free.
3 recommended novels by Fernando Savater
The princess's guests
The cosmos of characters make up a whole where you can empathize with the motivations of each character. And at the same time it gives a lot of itself to structure a crazy world, like reality itself ...
Summary: On intrigues, cooks, vampires and the occasional crazy goat. The funniest novel of the year. The president of Santa Clara, popularly known as the Princess, wants to turn her small island republic into a world cultural reference. To do this, it summons writers and artists to celebrate a great Feast of Culture.
However, an inopportune volcano interferes with her plans and its ash cloud makes it impossible for hostess or guests to gather on the island. The young journalist Xavi Mendia, special envoy of Mundo Vasco, draws up minutes of the paradoxical situation and listens to the stories that one and the other tell while everyone hopes to get out of there: stories of passions and terrors, intriguing and fantastic, in which there is no shortage the perplexities of contemporary culture and even the shadow of a vampire appears….
The brotherhood of good luck
Life is competition, mainly against oneself, against the enemies that we can let our spirit inhabit. Behind a scenography as particular as the world of equestrianism, we can enjoy an interesting mystery plot endowed with a background ...
Summary: An invincible horse that has already been defeated, a jockey who mysteriously disappears when looking for the secret of good luck, two unscrupulous tycoons who seek to settle their rivalries on the racetrack ... The date of the Grand Cup is approaching, the international career that unleashes passions.
Four adventurers must find the missing person in time for him to ride the crucial test - as each of them battles the ghosts of their past.
Their search will make them face enigmas and dangers, until the outcome on a Mediterranean island where they will find treachery… and lions stalking.
An adventure novel, laced with drops of metaphysics and set in the fascinating world of horse racing.
The garden of doubts
Voltaire takes shape in this novel. And he is interested in the state of affairs beyond his domain of the Enlightenment. Deep down, this epistolary novel proposal delves into the perception of the Spain of Voltaire's time and, you know? There may not be so many differences with today's Spain ...
Summary: There are more than twenty thousand letters from Voltaire, addressed to all kinds of public and private figures. Those that make up this book are apocryphal: in them, the elderly Voltaire tells his life and explains his opinions to a French lady, living in Spain.
The lady, in turn, describes how eighteenth-century Spain is like, struggling against routines and prejudices, and the result of this epistolary exchange is a passionate fictional narrative directly inspired by reality.
