The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
Self-help, distance coaching or self-service therapy. The prospective literature towards the change or improvement of oneself finds in the writer Anthony Robbins (Tony for friends) an inexhaustible source towards professional success with the supposed solid foundations of the iron conviction of the will. The thing …
Publishing a first novel before the age of thirty is a firm declaration of intent from the writer who will live in you forever. Another thing is that fortune accompanies to make writing a trade or to achieve greater or lesser success. The case of Scotsman William Boyd maybe not ...
The most exported and recognized Japanese narrative in the West maintains a certain communion with the spiritual among the merely existential. Authors such as Murakami, Mishima or Yasunari Kawabata himself, whom I am quoting today, present us with very different stories but with a clearly identifiable background and with a singular taste for ...
Authors like Natsuo Kirino (Marioka Hashioka's pseudonym) exploit, surely without their intention, a strange virtue of the exotic. Because when the usual labels that associate genres with origin of the author, with cultural or sociological roots, are overcome, a very different scenario is enjoyed. And so when Natsuo ...
Having brought Valle Inclán to this space and not doing the same with Buero Vallejo was a sin pending atonement in this blog. Because they are both those practically novelistic playwrights. Authors whose works fascinate us from the stage, but who also preserve a large part of…
I bring to this space one of the most atypical writers of Spanish narrative: Juan Benet. An author capable of combining his work as a civil engineer with this sort of literary vocation that he masterfully developed in substance and especially in forms, as just a ...
The literary glory of the Hungarian Imre Kertész, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002, has its roots in the literary legacy of his compatriot Sándor Márai. Only in the case of Márai, his coincidence with who would be one of the most complete European narrators and chroniclers of the first ...
It sounds paradoxical, but the Marx of our time is an economist. I am referring to the Frenchman Thomas Piketty. In a way, the fact that the champion of a new communism is just that, an economist, seems like an assumption that capitalism has come to stay, disguising everything. But what it doesn't have to…
Carla Montero's novels transport us to scenes from that practically tangible past, places where memories of our elders still live, or sepia photographs in which simple gestures seem to outline great stories. And that is precisely why Carla achieves that wonderful fit between the mystery, the ...
Lo de Don DeLillo is an exceptional case in the world literary scene. Without a doubt we are before an existentialist, critical, profound, anthropological, sociological author. But to fit his always transcendental narrative pretension, DeLillo takes care of disguising his novels under different appearances of genres as disparate as science ...
Finnish Sofi Oksanen is more than just the stereotype of a committed writer. Because his literature is a stark contract with the truth, with a frankness that only exists in the depths of his characters loaded with obsessions and guilt. In its changing locations between historical fiction or ...
If there is a writer capable of composing sagas and more sagas in an incombustible way, that is Charlaine Harris. Its combination of a genre of mystery punctuated by the fantastic facilitates the exploration of all kinds of approaches towards plot that conquer young readers but that also offer enough ...