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There are characters who, for all of us who already had the use of reason between the 80s and 90s, were incorporated with all the law into the popular imagination. Terenci Moix was as good a writer as she was a singular character. A kind of mimicry between his profession and the materialization of his imagination ...
One of the most valued English writers of the XNUMXth century is Joseph Conrad. Although I have to say that I think he is an interesting writer, in my opinion it seems to me that he sometimes sinned in a certain obscurantism in his way of telling us his stories. Maybe that exercise of ...
English David Lodge is one of those great writers with more than half a century of career behind him, although buried by the maelstrom of the commercial. Because what is clear is that, beyond the important thing is the habit of reading, to always have ...
If there is a current adventure writer who still holds the adventure genre within the bestsellers, it is Clive Cussler. Like a modern Jules Verne, this author has led us through fascinating plots with adventure and mystery as backbones. The truth …
It is difficult to find thematic novelties in a literary quarry as prolific as the Nordic one in its aspect of the noir genre. Until you bump into Jens Lapidus. This Swedish author tells his stories from the Stockholm Black Trilogy always from the other side, from the perspective of the antiheroes, taking advantage of…
In the case of John Irving, the charm came at the fourth time. And the truth is that reaching the status of bestseller guarantees, at least, one thing: you have worked hard to get there. There are authors who reach the top with their first novel. And they do ...
As soon as we look at the work of Lauren Groff we discover the typical atypical American storyteller. A new Foster Wallace in love with estrangement as an alternative to uniformity and trends. One more writer in the necessary plethora of chroniclers against the dormidera as an extended literary resource. Symptom of ...
The best thing about Science Fiction is that in it we can find readings of all kinds. From cutting plots to philosophical in the case of dystopias, uchronies or post-apocalyptic proposals, to Space Operas that take us to new worlds, passing through an imaginary like that of Ernest Cline with ...
For Daniel Pennac, it is the same to face a youthful plot as to plunge into a sociological essay. Between both creative spaces, a whole sort of plot lines (including a very own black genre), through which this French author travels with the solvency of the writer convinced that not ...
That there are new times in literature is unquestionable. Genres spread and tastes multiplied. The generational labeling that was once practiced with academic intent sounds like an impossible exercise. The heritage of literature seems to be taking unpredictable paths in which the reader or more ...
Arriving stomping is a great guarantee of success. In the field of literature, achieving that triumphal entry is even more difficult than in any other field. You have to have talent, but also patience and a point of perfectionism. That talent that Belén Gopegui does have, cradled with the ...
Fantasy as a literary genre always finds the best guardians of each era so that the epic, the allegorical among exuberant approaches continue to recreate new worlds for readers eager for great projections towards new worlds. We are at the time of the veteran George RR Martín or Terry ...