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At the top of Uruguayan literature, alternating his work with that of other great writers of whom he was a precursor, such as Benedetti, Eduardo Galeano and Onetti, we find an extensive bibliography such as that of Horacio Quiroga that travels through the imagination of half the world with the hook of their…
In every literary space we find recommendations to find those novels, essays, stories and others that satisfy us as readers. Books by classic authors or current bestsellers. In many of these cases, the recommendations leave much to be desired and only replicate the official synopses. All for a few…
From the story and the short story to the novel, and from the passion of its most faithful readers to the disappointment of many others who approach Clarice Lispector for her vitola as a great creator. A differentiating label that ultimately leads to an introspective mimicry of its characters, to ...
What Anna Castillo does is an exponential interpretative evolution. I discovered her, like so many of us, with that 2017 musical comedy "The Call" and from then until today we have been discovering the virtues of her profession from a captivating personality and a charisma of those that are becoming more seasoned...
Lisbeth Salander is a lot of Lisbeth. And her Machiavellian feminism necessarily ends up extending to new arguments that her late creator Stieg Larsson would never imagine. By the way, it seems like yesterday that the original author passed away but it's been a couple of decades without him. Surely Larsson would have raised new scenarios. …
Nothing better than creating a recurring protagonist like Inspector Morse to pivot a literary career. Because after meeting Endeavor Morse the reader always wants to know more. From his hobbies and oddities, a kind of anti-heroic hero rises up who inhabited pages and pages for more than…
Sometimes the abysses of the soul, where the light does not reach, find a time and a way to enjoy themselves in their own way. A placid island like Tenerife becomes that point where all the evil is concentrated in the form of vices, perdition and unspeakable afflictions with a certain aspect of temptation...
Nothing like relativizing things... take a deep breath and create comfortable islands of time where you can soothe your conscience. No one can be as determined to disrupt your world as yourself. That is what a Björn Diemel is learning along the way, managed until the beginning of the novel by that…
We will have to wait until the end of the summer to give a good review of the new Stephen King. One of those stories that take up the old paths of the first King between paranormal and sinister events, or both things perfectly combined in an imaginary where everything has a place towards the most plausible...
Among the most enervating trends in our world today, the idea of the fullest self-realization stands out as a compendium between the work, the existential, the spiritual seasoned with permanent happiness. Marketing things that reach everything, even the deepest perception of life. Today's new generations...
The alienating has a root of the strange, of the alien to this planet. But the term ends up pointing more to the loss of reason. In this novel by Antti Tuomainen both extremes are summarized. Because from the cosmos comes a remote mineral vestige that everyone craves for different…
To understand reality you have to take a long path towards the origin. The evolution of any human-mediated event always leaves clues to be discovered before reaching the hurricane epicenter of everything, where an unintelligible dead calm can hardly be appreciated. The chronicles erect myths and their…