The 3 best books by Jorge Comensal

Put to writing, when one has read as much as Jorge Comensal, it should never be easy to subscribe to a genre, join a style or surrender to the task of abounding in what has already been discussed. That is why Jorge Comensal is not even avant-garde. Jorge writes for him after brushing off all kinds of reading.

The point is that reading, as learning for the writer, stands out in Comensal as overflowing water in the spring of literature. It is not about offering novels that are sophisticated in form or complex in substance. It is rather daring with the unexpected in the form and openly stripping the characters in the background.

This is how this Mexican writer is giving birth to a good selection of stories that his compatriot would like Juan Rulfo for his marvelous but concise literary production. Although sometimes it is better to round up a few books to the inaccessible than to exhaust yourself in an unapproachable bibliography. About Comensal we don't know where he will break. Meanwhile we can enjoy his stories full of vitality in all its possibilities and meanings.

Top 3 recommended books by Jorge Comensal

This emptiness that boils

Every scientist hides a frustrated philosopher. Because numbers and their formulas can explain almost everything. While metaphysics or epistemology don't clarify shit about what happens in life. It is better to surrender to physics than to logic...

Karina is twenty-five years old, a physicist working on a quantum theory of gravity. On the night of September 15, 2030, she finds her grandmother unconscious of her on the floor of her apartment, inexplicably drunk. Upon coming to, Rebeca mistakes her granddaughter for a ghost from the past and reveals a disturbing secret about the death of her parents eighteen years ago.

Rebeca's indiscretion seems related to the recent fire in the Bosque de Chapultepec; The flames devastated the Dolores Pantheon, where Karina's parents are buried, and caused the death of almost all the animals in the zoo, which triggered an unusual animal movement in the city. With the help of Silverio, a cunning and reckless guardian of the pantheon, Karina will look at the truth hidden under the earth.

In Este emptiness that boils, time advances and retreats, expands and contracts, to weave a story of fractal suspense. A recalcitrant mystery constitutes the center of gravity around which fundamental issues of our reality revolve, such as the environmental crisis, family conflicts, addictions, fanaticism and the bond of humanity with the other beings that inhabit the planet.

This emptiness that boils

mutations

Hoarseness has its point in favor for a friendlier coexistence. Whether you or your partner suffer from it, a few days of silence come as no surprise. The metaphor or analogy that can be detached from the muteness towards the zero resolution of the dialogue is what scares them, in the end.

Hence, Comensal leads this story with contradictory feelings. He who is silent does not grant. And if others don't catch up with sign language, there's little you can do to show it. The last hope is a parrot. Of course, with animals you can always talk...

Ramón Martínez is a successful lawyer, a convinced atheist and a family man like any other. But everything changes the day that Ramón has to undergo surgery and loses his tongue -and with it the ability to speak- and a silent tragicomedy begins for him.

Carmela, Ramón's wife, will begin to have daily arguments with a husband who cannot answer her; Paulina and Mateo, their teenage children, will have to face the new situation while dealing with their own obsessions (obesity and onanism). Elodia, the superstitious assistant, seeks a miracle cure for her boss, who goes to therapy with Teresa, a psychoanalyst, who grows marijuana in her attic.

In the midst of all this hubbub, Benito is the new member of the family: a parrot of an endangered species with whom, paradoxically, Ramón communicates better than with his loved ones and who is capable of swearing and yelling as loud as possible. that Ramon can't.

Told with a tender humor and sometimes a little black, this tragicomedy shows us a family like any other: with its day to day, with its problems, with its dose of love and laughter, and also, as in life itself, with its dose of bad luck and tears. And with a parrot.

The mutations of Jorge Comensal

junkies of letters

You have to assume it. Reading does not always provide a greater capacity for discernment, greater empathy or an easier capacity for synthesis. Depending on who reads, what they read and how they read, things can be catastrophic. In the best (and in the majority) of cases it will be a kind catastrophe and even necessary for the established order for sheep and others. But in the worst hands things get complicated...

The history of reading is plagued with overdoses: Saint Paul, Don Quixote, Sor Juana, Emma Bovary, Adolf Hitler. I have gathered dozens of cases in a notebook that I will not exhaustively pour out here to prevent this essay from becoming a cabinet of curiosities. I want, like all of us who have been following in Montaigne's footsteps, to make myself understand —the essay as an act of cannibalistic narcissism. Why do I aspire to read it all? Here I am looking for an answer that may serve as a mirror for other insatiable, compulsive readers.

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