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If you want to talk about a crime novel, what is truly a Spanish crime novel, with its influences from American pioneers such as Hammett or Chandler and at the same time full of personality in its most indigenous register, we have no choice but to surrender to the figure from …
Bram Stoker can be considered to be the father of the vampire genre. But the truth is that his transmutation of the already existing Count Dracula as the origin of his masterpiece distorts that authorship. In the end, it can then be thought that it was Dracula himself who indirectly used Stoker to ...
Daphne du Maurier was a writer of great mysteries and delightfully unnerving thrillers. And I bring her here today because in a way she seems to me to be one of those great forgotten creators, at least for the general imagination of some lovers of the great mystery bestsellers who cannot ...
Since she began to publish her first books, the Colombian writer Laura Restrepo has always manifested herself as a writer of quiet books, of leisurely literature, with that taste or need to fill herself with experiences and new ideas with which to approach her highly-made books. strictly ...
If I recently spoke of Jude Deveraux as an outstanding writer of the most diverse romantic genre and complemented by many other genres, speaking of Lisa Kleypas is something similar only more restricted to a combination of romantic novel and historical setting. The Kleypas thing is to tackle a multitude of new ...
Literature oozes from the pores of a Louise Erdrich writer and bookseller. But in addition to literature as an absolute vital value, Erdrich shows a singular miscegenation towards that cultural blessing that is the mixture. Even more so if it is a hybrid as exotic as the Germanic with ...
Editorial successes always find immediate replicas in our hyper-connected world. The culture of cultures that is globalization is sometimes good, so that we all know about distant creations at the same time that it leaves a bittersweet taste of uniformity in music or literature. If Elisabet Benavent conquers the ...
Few male or female writers reach the level of literary genre on their own. Lindsey Davis is the Ancient Roman genre writer. Said like that it sounds grandiose. But there is no other way to qualify or label this English writer whose fascination with the Roman Empire has become ...
History and its possibilities to present the chronicle by diving into the facts, or to fictionalize intrahistories. Víctor Amela composes one of those bibliographies that reconcile fiction and non-fiction around an essential argument of the human, such as the historical. In the same way as other authors ...
Dirty realism has two aspects, the most nihilistic headed by Charles Bukowski or Pedro Juan Gutierrez and the second loaded with the greatest protest connotations, represented by Tobias Wolff. The difference is a kind of total denial or, on the contrary, of a proposal to fight against disenchantment, of ...
The case of the Scottish writer Peter May is the paradigm of the eclectic between the police and the new noir currents. A kind of reconciliation of the origins with its evolution. In May we find echoes of Chandler or Hammett as soon as we end up entering medical rooms ...
Bob Dylan and Patti Smith or how myths end up assaulting literature. Because today these two greats of music who wrote the notes of generations and generations in the changing twentieth century, are now legends that make their books transcendental visions of our world ...