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No, it's not that young writers are constantly emerging. It's more like I'm getting old. The day before yesterday, those born since 1980 were kids, upstarts in any field. Today they are thirty-somethings with a background that, in the case of Graham Moore, may include a career as a screenwriter for…
That many of the great current authors are tanned from the short narrative, is nothing new. In fact, that kind of great storytellers already enjoy that high capacity in their stories and stories. But luckily, misfortune, custom or love, the novel appears on the horizon as the ...
Dramaturgy is one of the most peculiar artistic expressions. The great plays are today timeless classics written from Euripides to the last great authors of the mid-twentieth century. Since then the theater has had to share space with the cinema or television and its great ...
The first half of the 20th century in Europe records an extensive plethora of transcendent authors as necessary chroniclers of a continent plunged into the darkness of the great world wars. I am referring to Thomas Mann, George Orwell, or in Spain the Baroja, Unamuno... writers all of them looking out for...
It will be a matter of due respect to so many masters of world literature born by Mother Russia. The thing is that after the Tolstoi, Dostoevsky or Chekhov, considering reading current Russian literature appears risky. Until you meet someone like Anna Starobinets and see that that strange chill ...
The narrative of the criminal in Spain is already a nostra thing distributed among writers. They are, from Alicia Giménez Bartlett to Dolores Redondo, through Eva García Sáenz or Susana Rodríguez Lezaún herself, who sprinkle our imagination with the blood of pending cases. Disturbing investigations loaded with ...
Now that I think about it, too late I give myself the task of reviewing an emblem of world literature such as Selma Lagerlöf. But it is never too late to make amends. So today I have to address my little tribute to this Swedish writer whose achievements were those first steps towards ...
One of the parts of the tandem has become loose and has begun to pedal independently. I am referring to Hans Rosenfeldt taking a detour towards new literary paths, now separated from Michael Hjorth. And the thing is, as I suspected, the four-handed literature thing is...
We can group types of writers (and we will not be right, but the point is to give play to our logical reason), according to their more chronic or more emotional side. In other words, on the one hand, there are the narrators who tell us stories and on the other we have those who tell us how...
That erotic literature has lately been run by female writers is something that was evidenced by the shadows of EL James. The funny thing is that this gender revision by the work and grace of female feathers is precisely for an uninhibited person who tackles everything, from suggestive filias to creepy ...
It is curious how the humanities are recovering their preferential place in education as technology advances and Artificial Intelligence appears (or rather lurks) as something that has come to supplant us as productive individuals in many areas. And I am not only referring to the humanistic as an academic agenda, where the ...
No fully convinced pessimist reaches 84, as was the case with Cioran. I say this because of the determination to point out this author as a recalcitrant nihilist whose negativity and fear for life make up in form and substance a narrative parallel to the condemnation of living. ...