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Since I read an old and extensive cookbook on chickpea a few years ago, I understood that the culinary also has its literature. Because if erotic literature ends up assaulting our emotions, the kitchen is also capable of awakening those vital drives between delight and ...
The current plethora of Colombian writers is one of the most profuse and recognized in the Spanish language. The issue could be linked to the worldwide success of a Gabriel García Márquez who would serve as an incentive for new generations of storytellers. But in the end, writing is more a matter of spontaneous appearance, ...
Sometimes it is more that the story to tell assails you to be necessarily told. That's what happened to a successful self-made writer Jeanette Walls from the open and poignant review of her own life. The American dream cannot be understood ...
In the literary there are two ways of narrating the disenchantment. An example might be Bukowski and all the dirty realism that surrounds him. Another form is that of Horacio Castellanos Moya, from whose disenchantment comes fierce criticism and satire and the story with a transforming intention. It is not a question ...
What about the filmmaker Woody Allen? Just revere ourselves before a type of fragile appearance and anodyne presence who ends up spreading his wit in a universe without parallel. But we also have the writer Woody Allen who occasionally indulges in new fictions on paper, tragicomedies of our days, thoughts, stories ...
The misunderstood genius occurs more commonly in other creative fields far from literature such as painting or music. I say this because perhaps in Giovanni Papini we have a Van Gogh. In demonstrating the genius evidence of Papini, Jorge Luis Borges himself put a lot of effort, ...
Among that select plethora of prolific Spanish authors, Juan Madrid acquires a special relevance. Because this brilliant author writes about everything and everything, combining themes and developing with special mastery between the police and black genres. Under the umbrella of his degree in Contemporary History and his performances as ...
The hybrid between the mystery and horror genres is already a fixed background in all bookstores thanks to authors such as Stephen King or Dean Koontz himself, without a doubt two great authors who share origins in the northeastern United States. Despite what it might seem, in ...
World War II had one of its most symbolic closings with the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun. But some years before this happened, another German of a very different political and social background did the same with his second wife. It was about Stefan Zweig, who ...
You want it not, growing up with the reference of one of the last great geniuses of literature like Gabriel García Márquez ends up spontaneously generating school. Perhaps that is why in Colombia good and interesting storytellers come out with that naturalness that goes through several generations of lovers of good ...
In the case of the journalist Carlos del Amor, it was to break away from the literary or end up in erotic cinema. Because certain surnames mark. And it will not be because he does not know first-hand the world of cinema in his journalistic tasks ... Beyond the bromilla (forgive me Carlos if one day ...
The books in search of that positive self always arouse misgivings even in those who subscribe this post. It seems that the reluctance comes from the interpretation of a book of this type as an intrusion into very own plots, or a surrender, an assumption of defeat ...