When one dares to script the shocking book “Intemperie”, by Jesus Carrasco, in the brilliant way in which Daniel Remón did it, without a doubt we must give him a vote of confidence in his novelistic forays.
Because Daniel managed to convey much of what was narrated in that odyssey of the mundane that is "Intemperie" with that beat of life and fear, of the lap abandoned by harsh reality, of magical realism to force as the only way of survival...
That is why a recent narrative takeoff like that of Daniel Remón is very safe bet as an award-winning screenwriter capable of magical translations from paper to the screen. The point is to approach his creations little by little, as they come out once encouraged to be the first to tell stories that can finally be scripted in the scenarios of our imagination.
Recommended books by Daniel Remón
Literature
As soon as you have children and you dare to tell them stories that come up on the fly, you discover that things always get complicated. When we imagine, children always ask for more. And sometimes they are the ones who end up finishing the stories...
One night, Teo, a three-year-old boy, asks his uncle Daniel to tell him a story. But not just any story, but one that includes a boy named Teo, a red car, a good and a bad witch, a monster, a suitcase and a lot of money. Mixing the Madrid of confinement with elements typical of children's classics, the narrator invites his nephew on a formidable journey that will take him to London, a lost island in the Philippines and an unpopulated village in Aragon. A puzzle in which the characters pursue their desires while fleeing from a monster with an unpronounceable name.
Daniel Remón has written a unique, brilliant, imaginative and profound novel. Half homage to books, half autobiography, Literature functions as an impossible cross between The Princess Bride and Ordesa. A story within a soap opera within a family saga—that of Remón himself—within a reflection on the craft of writing. A love letter to a child and to all the children we once were.
Science fiction
Love by definition is science fiction. Because it is the most unapproachable word, the universe without boundaries of any kind or vectors that explain it. That's why loving each other can be in any way, under any affiliation. The point is to compose the most extraordinary of stories.
Science fiction is a love story. There are no alternative futures, spaceships or time travel in it. What there is are a handful of fragments in which the narrator, film scriptwriter and screenwriting professor, remembers his last relationship. Through various genres (romantic comedy, film, essay, drama, fantasy and, of course, science fiction), we witness an autopsy similar to the one we have all practiced at some point after a breakup: a mix of memory and myth , analysis and pure speculation.
Science fiction is the second novel by screenwriter and writer Daniel Remón (Goya 2020 for best script adapted for Intemperie) after his surprising debut, Literature, where he already gave the keys to his style: an agile style inherited from cinema and a tender and with a lot of humor With an ability to portray the intimacy of the couple that recalls, at times, Woody Allen and Marta Jiménez Serrano, Remón analyzes the invisible gears of love, as well as other themes, such as loss, grief or the act of writing.
