There are characters who, for all of us who already had the use of reason between the 80s and 90s, were incorporated with all the law into the popular imagination. Terenci moix he was as good a writer as he was a singular character. A kind of mimicry between his profession and the materialization of his imaginary plot in his very person.
The televisions and radio of the eighties and nineties struggled to have their services to act as a chronicler of any social event. His smile and popular language worked perfectly to empathize with the viewer.
An empathy that, having said everything, he also cultivated wonderfully in his literary work. On the other hand, reason to bring it to this blog. Terenci Moix was able to narrate moments in history (with her devotion to Egyptology) providing a cinematographic character. A very special style that seemed to make him travel magically between the script and the novel. Undoubtedly a unique writer, controversial on many occasions, but always lacking in the cultural space of our country.
Top 3 best novels by Terenci Moix
The bitter gift of beauty
A title of great sonority and with that point of existential dichotomy that by itself heralds a good work. And reading, finally, is extremely gratifying.
It is as if, in some magical way, this novel could overlap with The old mermaid, by José Luis Sampedro. It is not that the novels are plot-heavy, however, in my opinion they make up a wonderful mosaic of those days in which the civilization of the Nile was shown as the modernity of our planet.
Art, philosophy, agriculture, mythology and beliefs… Two novels that would complement each other perfectly in a consecutive novel.
In the specific case of Moix, it is about the detail, the imaginary around what it could be like to live for the most famous characters such as Keftén or Nefertiti.
What would love be like in those days of new lights for humanity? How would you internalize in your soul the necessary beliefs with which to face misfortunes or weather blessings? An authentic precious portrait of characters and personalities with the basic background of human emotions and drives, the same then as now.
Do not say it was a dream
Knowing the public face of Terenci Moix, his declared passion for Egyptology and his excessive search for love as a narrative plot, without a doubt this novel must have been a creative necessity for him.
Talking about Cleopatra and Marco Antonio, one of the first complete love stories (with its romanticism but also with its more mundane, passionate and sometimes naughty side), had to be a true literary climax for Terenci.
If his great novel also ended up winning the Planet award, the publication must have been a real orgasm. As truly orgasmic it is to introduce you to the unfiltered descriptions, to the most profuse details about love and betrayal, about tragedy and destruction.
A novel of past loves that, among its lavish descriptions, ends up becoming love in essence, which has survived to this day. In this link you will find a new commemorative edition of Planeta.
The blind harpist
If we add the descriptive power of the author to the narrative capacity about antiquity and add a mysterious approach as a background, we find a novel set in ancient Egypt with hints of a certain mystery and a transforming spirit of History.
That what Terenci Moix tells us has little adjustment to the Egyptological canons, it may be. That the novel was written shortly before the author's death and that its entire writing is a wink to all its faithful readers, we could also get closer.
Go out through the front door, create literature to transgress, write like angels to end up protesting before the most purists who did not always recognize it in all its great magnitude.
And despite everything, this is a great novel where History becomes fantasy, eroticism and the soft symphony of a harp playing in the dim light on a slight Mediterranean current.
