The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
The genres of Science Fiction, fantasy and terror found in Richard Matheson one of those authors capable of offering a diverse work that at times delved into suggestive fantasies; Or that it made the hair stand on end with that terror that is born of the unknown, that ...
Susan Sontag was an illustrious American writer of Jewish origins, a select but extensive group of narrators with Hebrew roots that includes from her contemporary Philip Roth to Paul Auster, through many other greats of literature made in the USA. Trying to pin Susan Sontag on…
As a total bestselling author, Antonio Garrido brings a perfect balance between historical fiction and mystery. In his case it is a kind of fascinating trick that tackles everything from style, to rhythm, plot and twists as that final narrator effect ...
To Caesar what is Caesar's, and to Erika Leonard Mitchell or her pseudonym EL James what is hers. And it is that the erotic novel owes James its resurgence and what is more important, its naturalization. For many years, and until very recently, ...
Daniel Defoe must have been a writer and only a writer. Because the truth is that his other political and business facets led him to misbehave. Both him and his extended family. But maybe it's all part of the same. It may be that precisely because of his writing vein he faced with ...
Although it is not appropriate to tell it in a literary blog, I would like to point out that Javier Pérez Andujar is that atypical and missed Catalan. The stereotype of dysfunctional Catalan for pure Catalanism. That strange being that we observe surviving against the current in these turbulent days of nationalism prescribed as a placebo for everyone...
We go there with Freud's most gifted student. And who surely surpassed him in his communication skills evidenced in so many good books. I am referring of course to Erich Fromm. An author who, through his essays and with a deep dissemination will, facilitated, and even today facilitates, the opportunity ...
The literary career of the veteran American writer Joan Didion was marked in her last years by tragedy. Because in the same way that we discover in the close example of a writer like Sergio del Molino a literature made placebo in his work “The Violet Hour”, in the case…
It never hurts to delve into humorous literature from time to time, a hybrid between fiction and reality that parodies, transforms, ridicules, satirizes or directly presents new worlds where the comic takes on a fundamental role. You have to laugh more, without a doubt. Ángel Sanchidrián is a parody cradled in the ...
In the case of Carmen María Machado, we can awaken a sensation of contrast between the literary genre and the narrative background. Because, curiously, Carmen is capable of choosing the most unsuspected fictional areas, and usually far from realism, to talk about very close aspects in our ...
In the section of this blog dedicated to the best books by countless authors, we usually select those who already have these three works on which to raise the podium of their best novels. But in the case of Joaquín Camps we make an exception similar to the one that ...
With the Sevillian writer Elisa Victoria it happens that I feel more marked that possible abyss of the leap from one generation to the next. But the thing is not going to highlight the differences to vindicate generation X or Z or the suit that he plays. I say it more for ...