The 3 best books by Marcos Giralt Torrente

From caste it comes to the greyhound. Because having direct ancestry to don Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, what of Marcos Giralt Torrente it is better understood as that genetic variable that is also capable of transferring its information towards something as creative as the writing profession.

Another evidence of this inherited vocation is the vigor with which it broke in from very early on. A literary takeoff in his twenties with a first book of short stories that was that starting gun, the confirmation of the budding writer.

Currently Marcos Giralt is a writer already established in our national literary scene, with great awards in recognition of his works and translated into various languages. It is not that he is the most prolific of writers, but it is true that each new book has that dedication of those who write out of absolute necessity, with the essential commitment to oneself, with the writer who needs to speak with the most unexpected cadence.

There is something of that unavoidable realm of the subjective that every writer faces that seems to want to break his own limits in Giralt's prose. Essential nonconformity that results in an assault on our consciousness from proximity plots focused on spaces as common as love, loss or guilt. Because precisely our always subjective world, at least shares identical brushstrokes drawn from emotions of similar chromatic scales.

Top 3 recommended books by Marcos Giralt

Time of life

Due to indefinition it seems that many things are going to be eternal, especially the essential ones. But there is always a deadline, even from the notion of the child who considers the infinite as a habitable place of his time.

All narration, even one that pretends to imitate life, is a fiction. An artifice. The writer goes out into the world and gives us a vision of life, not life. Starting from this premise, Marcos Giralt Torrente confronts a universal theme in this intimate story: the death of his father.

From the pain of the loss, he rebuilds the relationship with his father, the time of life that he shared with him, with an astonishing desire for fidelity. Without avoiding the dark areas but without recreating in them, avoiding any excess with balance. In this way, with the help of hypnotic and concise prose, one's own experience becomes everyone's experience. The result is a moving book that embraces and strikes at the same time. Not a tribute or a reckoning. An attempt to understand the most complex relationship between two people.

The portrait of a father and son. An inventory of life in which almost nothing is silent and in which, for that reason, life appears as it is: with its sadness and crossroads but also with its joyous discoveries. A great book, a brave and beautiful confession.

Time of life

Paris

If the children come from Paris, Paris will also be left with the best orgasms, and, therefore, it is understandable that the title of City of Love will also be attached. Because the best thing that remains is the moment of moments, the petite death. All the rest is trying to narrow down "love" as it is about addressing so many definitions of the abstract, making water everywhere.

Sex gives a lot to think about. Intelligence transfigures biology into culture. It is a transit that begins in physiology, crosses the dense fields of religion, psychology, economics, politics, to arrive at ethics. The news about sexuality looks like war parts. "Personal relationships have been transformed into continuous combat," says a well-known sociologist. "Love is more necessary than ever and, at the same time, impossible," says another.

It is feared that the confrontation between the genders will harden. The sexual revolution served to shake off superstitions, injustices and guilt. We protect ourselves from the mystery of sex with trivialization. We have achieved fun sex and now we would like to invent a happy sexuality. From witty sex we would like to move on to great affective creation.

Paris

Shedding of skin

Changing maybe yes, the difficult thing is to mutate. The nuance is the difference between trying to understand others in a temporary mimicry or finally complete empathy capable of addressing constructive syntheses.

Imagine nine narrators gathered to tell each one of them, without keeping quiet, a relevant story of their life. Childhood stories shared with their parents and siblings, or stories from their recent past lived with their partners and children.

Just as the narrators of that imagined scene would be infected by a similar tone dictated by the theme and circumstances, the nine stories collected in this book use a common language to weave with diverse plots an unconventional tapestry of the underground of affection. . Some make up canonical stories and others push the boundaries of the genre to become authentic bonsai novels, but in all nine there is, along with the interweaving of subtle echoes, the same desire to strip away reality to leave it as it would appear to us in a brief moment of revelation.

With the acuity and precision that characterize his work, Marcos Giralt Torrente delves once again into family relationships, demonstrating his great skills in outlining the psychology – sometimes contradictory – of characters faced with their fears and desires.

Intermittent parents, elusive mothers, adolescents who look puzzled into the adult world, complicit children, brothers and sisters united by bonds difficult to dissolve, unexpected reunions, deceptions, ominous shadows, irreparable absences, imperfect loves and, in general, that slow lace of the complexities of life to which living with the mirror of our loved ones exposes us.

Without melodramatic excesses, but also without contemplations, with a look at the same time detached and compassionate, always accompanied by a virtuous writing, attentive to modulations and nuances, the author explores the bowels of intimacy and its cracks and offers us nine narratives exceptional.

Shedding of skin
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