Discover the 3 best books by Patricio Pron

With a name easily remembered for his musicality, the Argentine Patrick Pron aims to become a reference writer in this XNUMXst century. Master of the story in a propitious and fertile generation for this narrative synthesis, as the Argentine also shows Samantha Schweblin or Oscar Sipan because I always felt a predilection in that field of the story, a creative space in which the virtue of the narrator gifted with the symbol and the brilliant metaphor, stands out greatly and becomes fundamental for a more powerful hook than what is narrated under certain word limits.

With the Alfaguara novel award 2019, Pron confirms, with the accolade of a great prize to join with many others already achieved, his ability to move from the story and story to the greater physical space (it does not have to be greater in plot or significance) of the novel. And so we find the total writer, seasoned in small and large stories to address very disparate themes and aspects with an overwhelming mastery of rhythm, tension and narrative tempo.

There are many arguments for writing novels. Pron «so solo» does an exercise in observing reality to discover everything from police plots to great love stories. Because one of Pron's most recognized values ​​is the credibility of some characters that invite the empathy of the recognizable to end up soaking us in history like a torrential rain that reveals us naked.

How to approach Pron's work? Where to start reading novels or stories? It doesn't matter, discovering Pron is always a party.

Top 3 recommended books by Patricio Pron

The beginning of spring

The experience of a writer has many tickets to become the scene of a plot. And the plot of this story in a Germany kicked around by the author for years is transformed into a new journey from philosophy to the most sinister reflections of human thought. Martínez is already an Argentine translator in search of Hollenbach, a philosopher from whom he has to translate his work.

At times the follow-up of the thinker and creator of the work to be translated becomes an argument that adds mystery, since the aforementioned seems to pose an enigmatic game of his search to a Martínez increasingly confused with his whereabouts.

But in the end the story progresses in very different directions. Beyond the desired encounter, the search is structuring the novel, carrying the narrative weight towards a continuous and distorting mirror of reality, a dark past of Germany that was approaching the abyss of war and madness. A novel as risky as it is captivating.

The beginning of spring

What is and is not used will strike us down

The well understood story offers many possibilities to transmit or to compose simple but exquisite or complex but brilliantly metaphorical stories.

The brief has a certain predestination, an approach to the evidence of what is going to be told already in the first words..., perhaps that is where the need to give packaging to the title comes from. And yet, the story gives off another aroma different from the novel.

It is not so much due to prose and can succumb to the lyrical or the dreamlike. The characters act with the comfort of brevity or succumb to an improvised interpretation that does not expect a particularly nuanced ending.

El story as genre it is mostly open, tending towards assumption and rambling, like an aperitif that is enjoyed with greater pleasure than a gargantuan menu of hundreds of pages. So it is not always easy to write a story for every writer. Virtue must emerge in that glorious capacity of synthesis ...

Summary: Two writers agree to write each other's "autobiography" and a reader becomes obsessed with both or just one of them. A man mentally writes his Tinder profile while a girl tells him about death and the horrible secrets that things are told.

The "great Chilean poet" destroys a hotel room in Germany and offers his interlocutor a life lesson. A writer named "Patricio Pron" hires a handful of actors to "play Patricio Pron," with the catastrophic results that were to be expected.

The characters of What is and is not used will strike us down they have a glimpse of what a better life could be, and they are dazzled by its intensity.

Vulnerable, perplexed, ridiculous, wise, they all return again and again to the possibilities intuited in that vision, convinced that if they do not take advantage of them they will be lost: what they find in doing so is chance, the lives of the writers as distorting mirrors, the opportunity to make a work of art out of your life, the need to disappear, to leave everything behind to be one with literature.

What is and is not used will strike us down

Walking under the sea, hanging in the wide sky

Since George Orwell made the fable a social and political intention with Rebellion on the farm, the fabulous was openly approached as a new imaginary in which each author could overturn that double reading.

Recently Pérez Reverte did it with «Tough dogs don't dance", without going further. The fundamental thing is to balance the fabulous narrative so that everything matches. So that a linear reading can convince a child or young person and an insight into its depth satisfies the most intellectual of readers.

The fundamental theme of this story revolves around the idea of ​​the need to leave our site, whether due to imperative physical or emotional necessity.

Reinventing oneself can be something done from the imposition or from the will, but it always aims to survive. The animals in this story seek their own survival, with its clear analogy to an animal world increasingly persecuted by the advance of man and his change in the natural paradigm.

The customizations associated by Pron with animals such as the pig, the owl or the deer itself, who have become the protagonist, point to a brilliant intention from which to draw a multitude of connotations.

Walking under the sea, hanging in the wide sky
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