The Aragonese writer louis delval He lavishes on his journalistic side as a contributor to various radio programs. But he has also developed screenwriting functions and even actively participated in politics during the transition years, even participating as a deputy in the constituent legislature that began in 1977.
Strictly literary, Luis del Val is a great creator of characters around varied intimate stories in which women take on a marked role. In the purely aesthetic, and making an extra-literary aside, we find in del Val our particular literary dandy style. Tom wolfe.
Returning only to black on white, the feminine universe is a field in which this author usually delves in search of that perspective of overcoming adversity. Therefore, he is an inveterate example of feminism in History. This is the best example of elevation over labels and prejudices. But in addition to this tendency towards the feminine as a fertile field for fictional narrative, many other social aspects pass through the prism of this author.
3 recommended novels by Luis del Val
Good morning, minister
Deucalión is a character outlined so that the reader ends up blending in with him. Deucalion is any of us exposed to the influence of power. But Deucalion, above all, is a guy who, beyond his gray appearance, easy to mimic for readers-ordinary citizens, offers the glimpses of the one he once loves, of the one who asks questions to destiny. .
A story that is already years old, but that still maintains various essential aspects of who we are.
Summary: What happens to an ordinary citizen when he is appointed minister? That is, after all, the story of Deucalión, a gray civil servant and without too many aspirations, whom his wedding with the daughter of a famous painter and the ups and downs of fate will end up becoming Minister of Agriculture.
Good morning, Mr. Minister is an excellent humorous novel that, beyond its kind irony, funny situations and unexpected outcome, hides a whole fable about power, love and loneliness, narrated with the personal and characteristic style of Luis del Val.
The lost toys
Social voyeurism... Who has not wondered what is really going on in the neighbor's life, beyond his elevator smile? Have you ever lusted after that neighbor you know absolutely nothing about? How far could you go to create a relationship that allows you access to the real lives of these intriguing strangers?
Summary: Helio is a cartoonist of sci-fi stories who happens to meet a new neighbor. The respective couples will also get to know each other and a loving and sometimes ambiguous relationship will develop between the four characters. Helio is not only obsessed with her but also with the knowledge of the mysterious woman who was his mother, whom he has never met.
Two parallel stories, in different times and different societies, whose denouement coincides in a surprising ending and the feeling that the people who appear in our lives are received with the joy that we reserve for new toys, and when they are diluted they leave the melancholic trace of lost toys.
Friends meeting
Luis del Val's latest novel delves into one of his fetish themes: the female universe. Only in this case it is really about an absolute surrender to the world of women, to the differential facts in behavior and social claims. But meeting Marta, Gracia and Chon is also enjoying the plots won in all this time ...
Summary: What do women talk about when they talk about sex? Gracia, Marta and Chon have been friends since adolescence. All three are now forty and have very different conceptions of life, but theirs is a friendship for ever, capable of overcoming marriages, divorces and children, and which has so far withstood the test of time.
They have an appointment tonight at Chon's house. Apparently it is a frivolous and fun meeting, in which they will share laughter, evoke old memories and talk about the latest news, their families, their husbands, their lovers ... and sex.
But each of them has come with a very different purpose and that the rest in turn ignore. And no one knows that this meeting will turn into a meeting as surprising as it is unrepeatable.
Other recommended books by Luis del Val
Memory and oblivion
Once some deadlines have passed that everyone encounters, it is time to dare to write memoirs, epic biographies or "simply" a testimony of what has been experienced with an intra-historical desire towards the most precise drawing of what was, what happened and what it meant. There is no one better than a guy like Luis del Val to recover his memory after so many forced oblivions.
Luis del Val gives us some pages that constitute a historical document of the first magnitude. This is not a summary of anecdotes; or the memory of a dry martini prepared by Dr. Severo Ochoa; or the forgetfulness of that electoral night in which Paco Fernández Ordóñez could have been president of the Government; and it is not an autobiography either. Or maybe it's all of those things. Memory and Forgetfulness is a lucid chronicle of a witness that starts from the post-war period and reaches to the present day.
Told with humor, with a certain irony and with those nuances of tenderness that are usually common in Luis del Val, this book helps you know and understand the history of a Spain that is worth remembering to know who we are and where we come from before it is forget us Because if memory did not exist, forgetting could not exist either.
