We are approaching today Eloy Morenowhoever he was first big hit of a freelance writer in Spain. A new trend that would later be followed by others also already recognized and even exalted as Eva Garcia Saenz, Javier Castillo o Daniel Cid.
Because… Who does not remember that fascinating book «The green gel pen«? I do not know the sales figures, but in cases like the one in this book, which almost all readers ended up reading, we enter a democratizing field of culture. A new game board in which critics and publishers lose their purchasing power for once. A true example that word of mouth can outperform monstrous editorial promotions.
Then comes the moment when every author finally enters the wheel of the industry. It's natural. But the example is there, and it never hurts to stimulate many other budding writers who dream of a stroke of luck to make their work known to the masses.
The question is to contribute something different, as did Eloy Moreno. Publishing a book here or there is not always the most important thing. The fundamental thing is what you count or how you count it. Bottom or form have to break patterns or appear at the right time. With the green gel pen, Eloy wrote a metaphorical story, an allegory of our days, a brilliant account of today's man trapped in his time and his routines.
And actually, Eloy Moreno continues to offer us glimpses of that particular mark that decomposes our reality to make us see things differently, revealing past aspects on tiptoe about the essence of our way of life. Entertaining and dynamic novels in their form and with a succulent flavor in their background.
Top 3 recommended books by Eloy Moreno
The green gel pen
When the Espasa publishing house opted for this novel, it knew that it had everything to win. If its author had achieved an unusual level of impact through self-promotion, what could they not do? And so it was… We all ended up reading this book because our brother-in-law was surprised by it or because our own wife ignored all our nightly prayers in bed. So we started reading.
And it turned out that the first part led us to the paradise of childhood, perhaps a trick to keep us that sweet taste of freedom never conquered again. then we discovered that the inhabitant of the narrated childhood is suddenly out of place and a detail as insignificant as the loss of his favorite pen leads him to flee from himself in a reality that has him annulled.
Reality is contracting on a character and guides us through a suffocating sensation of a world that also threatens to close in on us. A book to spread the example of its poor protagonist, a brilliant pessimistic metaphor to wake us up and make us reconnect with that child we were.
invisible
The childhood dream-desire to make yourself invisible has its foundation, and its reflection in adulthood is an aspect to consider from very different angles. As we say, everything starts from childhood, probably from the power of some superhero capable of becoming invisible in order to surprise evildoers and others.
The matter is taking other paths as it grows. There are those who even wanted to be invisible to sneak into the bedroom of their beloved (what immorality!) 🙂 But in the matter of invisibility there is also an emotional background. Living in society makes us claim the power of invisibility to make discretionary use. At very different times we would like to lose ourselves in the crowd and at other times we would like to stand out from the mediocrity.
There are days when we admire the leader, his radiant visibility, his ability to attract all eyes with his powerful figure. Others, on the other hand, would like to leave the baton of our circumstances to go completely unnoticed. And the power in the end may lie in the fair visibility of what we are. When they look at us and admire us when we represent our essence. Sometimes we have to observe and why not learn.
At other times we have to claim the attention of others to make them aware of our truth, our intentions. The trick lies in that balance, in taking advantage of the game of masks. And rest assured that the best disguise is one of oneself. Eloy Moreno presents us in this book Invisible an interesting process towards that knowledge of the power of invisibility. When we were children it was all an illusion... and yet there was some real power in it.
That is why Eloy Moreno revisits childhood to build an allegory that goes beyond childhood. What is clear is that we are still children, only that we forget the essential thing, the use of our powers. A child still has time to turn his reality around. Knowing the power of invisibility with its unpredictable dysfunctions and imbalances that operate in the opposite direction to the desired one, only being children can we continue trying.
What i found under the sofa
A title for the author's second novel that seemed to link with the search for the pen of its previous protagonist, but that finally broke through different literary spaces. After the great success of a debut feature, the writer's stage fright must be terrifying. And yet this novel immediately shows that the guy behind his pen was not a stroke of luck or an attack of unforeseen muses.
The Eloy Moreno thing is creative genius, it is great ideas and fresh perspectives between the existential and the mundane with a nod to childhood, fears and so many internal aspects that its reading supposes an introspection from the empathy of fair descriptions and time narrative more alive than ever falls into philosophical rambling or morality.
The division of ideas between various characters helps in this idea of ​​plot lightness. On this occasion, the novel takes on social overtones of disappointment and frustration in the face of a situation of social instability that seems to have come to stay.
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when it was fun
Immortality would not make sense because magic is always in the first few times. The rest is wandering around the world as in limbo, as in purgatory. The point is that there are always possibilities for new times if one is willing to never stop learning. But as time passes, the most authentic first times cling to us as memories of what will never be again, turning out to be the most authentic.
In those we walk, overcoming contradictions to be able to continue finding meaning in what we do. Which, of course, always is.
The question, for a writer of essences like Eloy Moreno, is to find the substance that binds the complicated evolution of the world. His writing is enveloping, to entertain us in the search for our own motives from the reflection of his characters. His mission is to find that spark towards consciousness as a balance between reason and emotions. Readers from all over the world find in his stories a kind of placebo. Because finding in others, protagonists in this case, scapegoats for their own miseries, ends up clearing vital horizons.
«Dear reader, dear reader, the novel you are about to start is an uncomfortable story, perhaps the most uncomfortable I have written to date. A story that is only understood after a certain age or a certain moment in life. That is why we have decided to indicate it.
When reading it, you may find those ghosts that have always been by your side but that you have not wanted to see. But it is also possible that the opposite happens: that you leave this story with the happiness of someone who knows how to value what he has.
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