The 3 best books by the brilliant Azorín

Possibly the most accurate pseudonym in Spanish literature of all time. I dare say that based on the simplicity and musicality of AzorinAnyone, however profane in the literary field, associates this alias with that of the outstanding writer. And is that memorizing José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruiz involves a difficulty that the author was able to mitigate with a shortened nickname, an ingenious marketing decision when marketing did not yet exist.

After going through works signed as José Martínez Ruiz that sounded mediocre or other aliases such as Cándido or Arhimán, pseudonyms more oriented to the essay or to the journalistic, the author settled his final decision in the signature that would give him the glory and universality of the lyrics Spanish.

Approaching Azorín and not talking about the generation of 98 is an act of academic incorrectness. But if you usually read me around here you will already know that the labeling and the organization of a creative field has always seemed absurd to me, beyond a chronological or librarian labeling.

As much as a plethora of authors coexist with the same circumstances, however much one wants to try to group authors inspired by a social and political situation, the mere idea of ​​grouping limits the creative and sticks to the need to label to study and analyze .

The authors themselves officially sponsored by this current insisted on denying such a condition. But the academic is stubborn in its desire to create fields and subjects of study.

The point is that Azorín maintained friendship with Pio Baroja, with Unamuno or with Valle-Inclan. The truth is that they got together in chat rooms to discuss the human and the divine, to get full of wine if he played or to discuss like the garulos of Goya's clubs. And that's all about them as a group, with their works considered in particular being what is truly relevant.

And in Azorín, with its enviable longevity, we find an extensive work to enjoy without further conditioning ...

Top 3 recommended books by Azorín

The will

Labeled as one of the generative works of the current of 98 in its prose aspect, this novel with which starts a fascinating trilogy of great subjective impact on the times lived by the Spain of the moment, contributes that feeling of the writer dedicated to the cause of the individualism, of thinking to try to elucidate what may be left of dignity in a miserable environment dressed in tinsel.

Of nihilistic, defeatist inspiration, in La will we can see that brilliant and melancholic disenchantment that transcends the merely circumstantial and ends up delving into the existential, in literature as the philosophy of the characters, in studied psychological profiles that move the plot by a sort of impressionism made prose.

Don Quixote's route

Despite the nature of the journalistic chronicle of the set, its literary and narrative inspiration makes this work one of the most interesting of Azorín.

Under the influence of the universal character of Don Quixote, Azorín seemed to get on his particular mount to revisit scenarios and establish parallels that were sometimes comical and sometimes tragic.

In a boast about the knowledge of the masterpiece of Cervantes and spinning with historical aspects of the country, Azorín recreated himself in idiosyncrasy, in the old history and the sensation of total decay of the national sentiment, with an irony that shows us the great paradoxes of a country bent on impossible and grotesque old glories.

Castilla

Azorín was a landscaper of the human. A soul capable of portraying the moment and the deepest reality. When we read this work that moves between realism and a kind of magic of time, we enjoy the experience of capturing the moment on an intellectual level, like seeing a painting that could gain movement in our imagination while we do not stop contemplating the entire setting.

Details that address simple life, but end up configuring the essence of the soul of that people so often used as a foundation for revolutions, ideologies and other impossible groups... One of the most brilliant literary expositions about what we are from the Pyrenees down to the world.