The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
Few authors so markedly ambivalent as Thomas Hardy. Because poets sweat ink when they make their forays into the novel while most novelists hardly dare to step on a line due to manifest lyrical incapacity. So this English writer developed an unusual gift and managed, today ...
In the shadow of Andrea Camilleri and his mythical Montalbano, Italian authors such as Marco Vichi continue with the legacy of the dark police genre rooted in that notion of the sordid, assaulting all kinds of estates, offices and even police stations. No one is free from blemish, even a commissioner Bordelli tempted ...
With regard to "Carol", a novel by Patricia Highsmith presented under a pseudonym in 1952 as a detective novel with a lesbian theme, we are addressing today a leading author in the already openly recognized lesbian literature. Because Sarah Waters is one of the most dedicated feathers to the cause of ...
For those who understand that we certainly paint something in this world, life is usually to burn stages. And Gutierrez Aragón complies with the inscrutable dictates that guide the transition in cycles such as the change of partner in dances. Something like that Woody Allen we also go to ...
There is a type of literature for which a special sensitivity is required. Nor is it that I am convinced by feminine literature because that sounds more stale, to other times when women were associated with more frivolous readings. What about Carmen Santos, or María Dueñas or ...
The writer Marian Izaguirre has a special pulse for all her works. As if it were a surgical intervention, in each novel we enjoy that perfect framework that serves the cause of the most precise action. An action so soon moved by the most magnetic mystery, like ...
Venezuelan literature finds in the voices of the impetuous Karina Sainz or the already veteran Juan Carlos Méndez that new block of narrators in their particular exodus from which to review homelands of all kinds (talking about exile has a political component in which I don't feel like get in). ...
If there is a singular author in the current Spanish literary scene, that is Jesús Sánchez Adalid. Writer by necessity, judge for a while by profession and finally priest by vocation ... Although in addition we would also have to cite his contributions in the press of various kinds. Without a doubt he is a restless type ...
If at the time I included great modern playwrights in this blog, the kind whose work has become classic since the XNUMXth century, such as Samuel Beckett or Tennessee Williams, I couldn't help but bring Eugene O'Neill here as well. Because precisely he was a pioneer of those works ...
We all look at those fascinating reductions of reality that newspaper cartoons of guys like Quino, but also of Peridis, Ibáñez and the disappeared Forges or Mingote suppose (or supposed). In the magical synthesis of those little scenes of just two or three movements, the ...
In cases such as Sarah Waters or Jeanette Winterson, sexual liberation is undoubtedly a literary discharge of great creative magnitude. Worse luck was her predecessor Patricia Higsmith, who only opened directly to lesbianism in her novel "Carol", paradoxically a starting point for many others ...
The most elegant formal sophistication is not an obstacle to a parallel construction of ingenious plots. As much as many other authors try to contradict this balanced idea of literature. That is why the case of the Argentine Luisa Valenzuela, recognized throughout the world, invites you to continue in the ...