The 3 best books by Agnès Martin-Lugand

El indie phenomenon in literature it reaches even the most unsuspected corners. On many occasions we have dealt with the issue of Spanish authors who have arrived since desktop publishing and who have ended up taking the top sales positions (I am referring to the Javier Castillo, Eva Garcia Saez and many others). Thus, the best possible criticism from readers has been achieved by guiding the major publishers to place their bets for those same readers. The perfect circle.

But indie is a global effect that, in the case of France, served to discover Agnes Martin Luganda psychologist by profession Which is probably why he gives his characters a very intense psychological charge with existentialist touches. Fundamentally feminist stories insofar as its protagonists are women in search of that conquest of a freedom that, in the female case, always entails greater burdens, conditioning factors and taboos.

Certainly, it is not the same to read a romantic novel conceived as a pink story with which to entertain yourself for a while than to undertake a more complex reading in which there is also room for love but almost always immersed in a whirlwind of much more complex circumstances. And that is where Agnès shines with her "knowledge of the human soul" as is often said.

In a easy and comfortable reading, we are enjoying those pearls of essential psychology, brilliant of resilience or improvement. Agnès almost always starts from the critical situation of a woman locked in the demands of life's script, or between sorrows and guilt. From there she always begins the takeoff that turns any life into a current epic narrative.

Top 3 recommended books by Agnès Martin-Lugand

Happy people read and drink coffee

If Einstein had gotten around to it, he would have said that the happiness formula is the most relative of all formulas. You have to count on many independent factors to consider an instant as happiness.

Diane is not in the best moment from which to project in search of happiness. The duel and her deeply somatic melancholy separates her from everything she enjoyed when misfortune had not yet intervened as a transforming factor in any formula.

After a lifeless period, Diane retreats to the most remote part of Ireland, a town overlooking the Atlantic called Mulranny. There she meets Edward, a guy as renegade from life as she is only facing his tragedy in a very different way.

The opposite poles whose magnetic foundations are so similar end up violently approaching each other, with unpredictable results and with a feeling of difficult surrender to a second chance to live.

Happy people read and drink coffee

Life is worth it, you'll see

In the meantime covered by the novel “The Atelier of Desires” and previously to “In the light of dawn«, Two stories already removed from Diane's circumstances, we recover this protagonist in this second part who is already openly launching herself into the reconquest of life from the drama that anchored a large part of our protagonist's existence.

Ireland was a parenthesis away from her world. But returning to Paris entails the usual complications of relocating her life among the ghosts of the past that inhabit the streets of the French capital. The literary coffee that Diane enjoyed in her previous life before the drama is approached as a necessary reconciliation of her dark past and a necessary bright present. Old friends like FĂ©lix are always there, longing for a new opportunity to enjoy a friendship that marks Diane's. An unexpected new element, Olivier then arrives in Diane's life to throw her back into the trigger of her most internal conflicts.

Life is never a script from one of the novels read at the club and interpreted from outside. Diane has to make momentous decisions that do not end with the closing of the last book she read. And the guilt and sorrow have their weight to chart new destinations.

Life is worth it, you'll see

In the light of dawn

A story about what moves us. A plot that tries by all means to tear down the walls raised to support what we consider to be happiness, blocking what is demanded of us from within and that can point in very different directions.

Hortense is the character who plays Cicerone on that journey towards bricked-up feelings. As we discover Hortense's location in her reality, we discover her conflict between her own conception of what she should be, rather than what Hortense would like her to be.

The concept of the biological clock goes far beyond the idea of ​​being a mother and extends to the human in general. Until, in the case of Hortense with his life of covert projects and furtive loves, Elias appears.

He becomes the hammer that beats against her wall, who makes her rethink, without hardly realizing, her life horizon. The changes then appear in Hortense's life with the intensity of a thread of light filtered into darkness.

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