Lately I have been finding very good books of stories. Whether by chance or not, for me it has been a relaunch of this narrative style. Current books like The acoustics of the Igloos, by Almudena Sánchez, or Night music by John Connolly are clear exponents of this emergence, at least in my library, of the short narrative.
But also, regarding the theme of this book How stones think, a thematic tuning point is also discovered. It seems as if the story had found in the existential, deep, and in a light sieve of fantasy a great fertile field through which to spread creations of all these authors.
Notable is, above all, the harmony between Brenda Lozano and the aforementioned Almudena Sánchez. Both surround the transcendental issue of fatalism as a destiny hardly elusive for the person, but they adorn it with brilliant fantastic or dreamlike notes that seem to offer imagination and fantasy, fiction in short, as an island in which to soothe the soul. .
How stones think, with its claim to a rude, inert lyricism, perhaps to a cruel metaphor about the human being as a rock, offers a prism with which to begin to read real scenarios on which flashes of fantasy or mystery appear, a fantasy and a mystery that is more closely related to the strangeness of the human being, with the particularity of thought, imagination, the consciousness of being and of existing.
Characters with close lives and unique perspectives on the world in which they live, like those wandering thoughts that assail you from time to time, once you shed your disguise and return to being that child ...
You can now buy the volume of stories How stones think, the new book by Brenda Lozano, here: