The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
They don't have to be the best-selling books, or even the most popular. Nor should we insist on extracting narrative quality from the Bible or the Koran, the Torah or the Talmud, no matter how much their spiritual reach fills some types of believers or others... For me...
If there is a genre in which its authors undergo brilliant appearances and glittering successes, it is the romantic genre. From the great lady Danielle Steel Until recent incorporations such as Elisabet Benavent, a multitude of voices are adding successes that run like wildfire among fans of ...
The surname Brontë stands out in the literary world with its almost mystical aura (at times rather disconcerting fog) that makes it difficult to consider any of the sisters ahead of the others. Because Emily achieved that universality with her and Anne's Wuthering Heights, who died even before she was 30 in...
There are writers with an absolutely closed method that favors them in two respects: no novel started will end up abandoned in a drawer and the virtue of order and organization ends up serving them to face any literary challenge. So it is easy to understand that Carmen Martín Gaite, one of our most ...
There are those who come to short literature and stay. The fate of the short story writer is something like if Dante had never found his way out of hell. And there they stayed Dante on one side and Chimal on his, as if fascinated in that strange limbo of ...
The Portuguese genius José Saramago made his way as a fiction writer with his particular formula to narrate the social and political reality of Portugal and Spain under a transformative but recognizable prism. Resources masterfully employed such as continuous fables and metaphors, rich stories and absolutely brilliant characters rescued ...
Many of us still remember the irruption of the most combative Varoufakis in the midst of the greatest economic crisis that has been remembered since the crash of 29 (improving the global crisis of 2020 through the work and grace of the pandemic). Undoubtedly the result of an almost messianic vision was that of that ...
1916 - 1999… Morris West was one of those exotic names I read when I glanced over the spines of my parents' home library. And with my usual taste for the most erratic reading, I approached The Navigator, a story that predicted Robinsonian adventures, at ...
Some creative combinations are always enriching. The poet turned into a writer or vice versa, the musician turned into a poet who even ends up winning the Nobel Prize for Literature (nod to the Dylan case). In the case of John Berger, we must talk about the passage of the most physical images in painting ...
There are professions that always have something of a special vocation. It's like that of the child who voluntarily went to the goal at recess to become a goalkeeper... And of course, a child who chooses to be a goalkeeper can end up working as a police officer or a doctor and finally finding the job of a writer...
Trinidadian Naipaul was a fascinating ethnographic storyteller. Whether in fiction or non-fiction, his destiny as a writer seemed determined to that portrayal of peoples, especially those whose identity was removed. Peoples colonized, enslaved, dominated and subdued by their colonizers. The voice, …
I have always found the work of the illustrator fascinating in search of the best images for the current book. Because once he collects his notions after reading, he ends up awakening an imaginary that devastates even what was imagined by the creator of the narrative. I say it for ...