I like new authors who enter like an elephant in a china shop. Precisely because literature needs that capacity for surprise, that twist and that rethinking of stereotypes by narrative genres. If not, things start to feel like a flat narrative. Even more so in popular genres aimed at mass consumption and best-selling fiction.
It is clear that this transgressive point requires a more common wardrobe. I mean, welcome to the crime novels or suspense, clinging to the canons, with reverential procedure, so that the authors continue racking their brains in search of easily recognizable arguments to place them on their corresponding shelf. But that grace of the novel, the misplaced and the surprise always comes from a creative and imaginative point capable of charting new paths or at least changing the focus.
If you have to give a traditional and acidic touch to noir, then you give it. And so, at times we laugh while a dark storm hangs over the characters in the story. Paradoxical like life itself. Surely in the works of Fernando Repiso you will find, and we will find in the new things that come out, that new way of composing, noir black on white, settings full of surprising colors.
Top recommended novels by Fernando Repiso
the needles of the night
When one thinks of his hero, he also has to carry his defects and particularities that make him human. The more eccentricities, the more he will resemble us from the inside out. Because mediocrity and normality are the great inventions of civilized humanity.
So every uncivilized hero, with his vices and secrets, can approach the idea of ​​undoing criminal wrongs with plausibility. At the height of this protagonist we have his nemesis who is not so much. It is the good thing about well-narrated appearances and that game of light and shadow that slides when one narrates with the solvency of referring to the amazing reality when it manifests itself in all its delusional crudeness.
After an intense session of sex and drugs, inspector Iván de Pablos receives a call. The owner of the gay sauna in Seville that he usually frequents has found a young man dead in one of the cabins. The boy, naked and with the appearance of being asleep, has received several punctures, perhaps the result of a sexual practice, and they have amputated a toe. The coroner, Dr. Carlos Sepúlveda, coincidentally a partner of his ex-wife, ruled that it was a heart attack. Iván trusts his word, but his instinct does not finish seeing the case clearly. For this reason, he will not cease to investigate all the facts surrounding this death.
The policeman, questioned about his addictions and how he lives his homosexuality, will end up discovering a dark plot, which will lead to more murders linked to the city's nightlife, and an unexpected criminal.
6 women 6
With its title of bullfighting evocation, this novel plays the most orchestrated confusion. Because nothing is casual except for a few things, as that one would say… The nod to family or friends reunions, to posture and happiness made a story of our lives in an after-meal conversation. Until that storm of pending accounts, grudges and secrets necessary to be able to meet again the next time at the same table, the same people, avoiding, if possible, the imminent tragedy...
Seville. A weekend. A heat wave. Four sisters get together, as they have every year for twenty years, to commemorate the death of their parents in a collapsing family home.
For this very special occasion, Irene, Laura, Beatriz and Gloria invite readers to a dinner for which they have cooked dishes based on family memories, open wounds, deceptive offers, memory games, a few lies and a few stockings. truths.
The dressing is provided by Gema and Tita: one is dead, the other barely lives. The garnish is served by an adulterous husband, a wayward teenager, a camel who is, at the same time, a bird in love, and an obscure friend of the family who has invited himself to dinner with the intention of breaking the dishes and setting the table. upside down. For dessert, the menu includes a lost gun, a necklace that no longer glows, and a homemade Ouija board. Come and read. Dinner is going to start.
