Houses begin with the foundation and in the craft of writing one begins with the story. Nowadays there are schools for everything. Yes, also to be a writer. The thing is that one does not decide to be a writer and train for it. One starts writing just because and ends up realizing that one is a writer from the first story.
En Juan Jacinto Munoz Rengel This paradigm of the self-taught narrator is outlined as the only possible one. The artifice of creativity training is an oxymoron like a string piano. Or at least as a starting point. Because the writer is born first and then it can be done, molded, formed ...
El fantasy genre It is usually a fertile landing space for young writers who begin, I repeat, because yes, to tell stories. And in my time, as in those of this author, fantasy was still based on small great books in front of the omnipresent screens of today with their tempting games taking over the leisure par excellence. How many potential writers will die today in front of bright screens ...
The point is that after the fantastic as an approach in which to capture even that touch between philosophical and existential of every young man with concerns, other interests end up that ride between genres with admirable fluidity. Because Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel is a writer by gift. This is how you can approach a crime novel to jump later to the essay or historical fiction, for example. Much to choose from ...
Top 3 best novels by Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel
The hypochondriac killer
Thinking is as necessary as it is harmful. Because by hitting the jar we can reach the disturbing doubt about how our heart hangs in our chest, to cite something that is certainly hypochondriacal. And of course, even a criminal can have his worries between murders. Because the lives of others hang by a thread in front of him. What could end up happening to yourself?
Mr. Y. must fulfill his last assignment as a professional assassin, but to achieve it he will have to overcome a serious obstacle: he has only one day to live. In reality, the enigmatic hit man who goes by the initials MY has been dying for years, from the moment he came to this world. So many diseases haunt him that anyone could consider it a medical miracle. Now, commissioned by a shadowy mystery client, he must kill the elusive Eduardo Blaisten before he is struck by a terminal stroke or gangrenous ulcer or a worsening of his Occupational Spasm Syndrome.
His incomprehensible bad luck will frustrate, one after another, all his murder attempts, and establish a magical connection between his own hardships and the great physical, psychological and imaginary evils that tortured Poe, Proust, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Molière, Kant and the like. rest of the illustrious hypochondriacs in the history of literature and thought.
Mr. Königsberg's capacity to love
Would it be possible to imagine a conjunction of circumstances that caused the survival of the apparently less fit individual? Why does nature need not only the boldest specimens, but also the cowardly or selfish or timid or weak?
Mr. Königsberg has a difficult character: he is surly, hermetic, lonely, he does not think like others nor does he need to, his days are marked by iron routines, he does not usually like him, nor is he the most attractive man in the world. But he has determination. And when something gets between his eyebrows, behind his big square-lensed glasses, he knows how to love like no one else.
When everything changes and sinks around him, he will remain unmoved. Where others succumb, he will overcome vicissitudes without great effort. When the entire planet is transformed, not once but several times, not even the wildest turns will alter the immutability of Mr. Königsberg one iota.
And it is that not even the gender changes of the new book by Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel, which will
novel-Bartleby to fantasy, to science fiction, to pulp, post-apocalyptic literature or feminist utopia, will be able to alter it. None of those cataclysms. Because it is not possible to find a more bomb-proof protagonist.
A history of lies
The old myths of our civilization, the atavistic fears of our human condition. Everything is based on fiction or at least on the most imaginative notion of the world. Due to ignorance of the unknown in the first eras and sometimes due to vice today, the lie explains everything because it is at the bottom of every truth that falters.
"A story of the lie" is, against all odds, a risky bet to reveal the truth of the lie, to tirelessly follow its tracks to the last nook where it hides or shows itself: because sometimes the lie is elusive and dark , but in many others it is exposed before us thunderous and dazzling.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel traces, throughout these pages, its presence from its first appearance in history -which may be precisely the appearance of history itself- to its hegemonic position in our contemporary societies to find its authentic meaning, its uses and abuses, its inextricable relationship with human nature. If this is not, itself, another lie.
