There was a time when Fernando Schwartz, along with Maximum Prairie, He came into our homes with that desktop program called «Lo + Plus». And one keeps fond memories of the interviews and the different collaborators who participated there. In the typical game between presenters Pradero put the hooligan touch while Schwartz moved into his role of presenter more to use.
In those days Fernando Schwartz was also recognized as a presenter. And in this he continues to this day, with a novelistic vein that explodes with irregular cadence. It is curious, because it coincides with other cases such as those of Carmen Posadas placeholder image, Amelie Nothomb o Isabel Allende, his education as the son of a diplomat. And it is that being traveled from the cradle can awaken that taste for writing as the perfect crucible for the miscellany of experiences.
In the made in Schwartz bibliography we find a bit of everything. Historical scenarios or vicissitudes of international politics; more intimate or even existentialist plots; arguments that seek humor from satire; black novel or historiographic essay. The irregularity in his literary comings and goings is equated with a plot variability that always surprises but that at the same time maintains a personal stamp in the interiors of his characters, in the lively dialogues and in a precious but dynamic prose.
Top 3 recommended novels by Fernando Schwartz
Meneses in Skopelos
Meneses is a specialist in under-the-table diplomacy. With Schwartz's knowledge of the facts, we enter a parodic vision of the diplomatic world and its goings-on. From the delicacy of the forms and their euphemisms for the media and society in general, everything happens to the rhythm of other much less official guidelines ...
Patricio Meneses is a seriously atypical diplomat who the government turns to when it is necessary to solve a mess that does not admit solutions, let's say official, but slightly immoral when not frankly illegal. On this occasion, he has to recover three girls who have been kidnapped on the Greek island of Skopelos without anyone having yet demanded a ransom; They are the daughters of the president of the government and the foreign minister, as well as an Olympic swimmer full of gold medals.
Meneses embarks on a maddened and dangerous search, which takes him panting from Greece to Siberia, with several stops in between, each more risky. To do so, he enlists the help of a ruthless Russian colonel, his friend, and a mistress from his youth, whom he calls Melina Mercouri and sometimes Desdemona.
Let meneses go
Spanish castiza satire whips everything with that taste for muddying everything that flashes brilliance or points to delicacies. Lo de Meneses points to the notion of the superhero of international fixes from the sense of the antihero capable of disguising all the miseries of the world.
n a country in Equatorial Africa, Mazambezi, there is a bloody coup during which a hospital in the middle of the jungle is destroyed and its two doctors, four nurses and five nuns, all Spanish, put to the knife. In an attack on offended dignity, the Spanish Government breaks with Mazambezi.
Two years later, it is discovered that that country swims on a sea of ​​oil and in its interior, in addition, there are coltan mines. It is necessary to resume relations, and for this they send Meneses, a decisive diplomat, with the right scruples and very good relations with one of the most important men in Mazambezi.
Heroes of days ago
All liberation has that high point in which the human being is reconciled with the best of himself without mediating institutions, creeds or politics. In those moments when it seems that an amendment proposal is possible, a story like this can be admired with admiration ...
Two lovers, separated by misunderstanding and conflict, try to meet again in the France at the end of World War II, they try to find out if they will be able to forgive the sin that both have committed: the betrayal of their deepest beliefs, patriotism, courage and sacrifice that History demands of each one. Marie is a member of the French Resistance; Manuel is part of the mythical Nine, the company of 150 Spaniards who, in August 1944, were the first to enter Paris and provoke the surrender of the Germans.
La Nueve was real, even though its heroism took decades to be recognized in both Spain and France. This novel reflects, with the simplicity of great things, the courage with which its members behaved, the loves that drove them to sacrifice, the dedication with which they left their lives on the roads of France. This epic, together with the drama of the Resistance, is the backdrop against which Fernando Schwartz has woven with the force of a language that dominates Heroes of days ago, a love novel that reflects passion, drama and humor of everyday life and heroic moments.
