The pull of the public figure, especially in the case of journalists from large media, derives on many occasions in this transition from the journalistic to the literary. One of the most emblematic cases is that of the journalist Maxim Orchard, but the list extends to many more here or in any corner of the world, from Vazquez Montalban even the american Tom wolfe, who connected the whole of his work as a journalistic narrative.
However, many are those who arrive and not so many who remain. Once the inertia of the media pull is taken advantage of, the readers are the ones who end up selecting what is really good from the mere media phenomenon.
And that's where an author like Mara Torres placeholder image, already confirmed as an interesting writer who began in the literary world as a way of capturing her experiences in an emblematic program such as Hablar por habla, where people reveal their most varied realities between the night waves of a confident radio.
Since then, Mara Torres has lavished on essays, stories and novels, composing an intimate bibliography that overflows with humanity from a young age, from that space of personal anecdote with which she fills her characters with life or chronicles of passionate intrahistories towards the concept of our lifestyle in society.
Top 3 recommended books by Mara Torres
The imaginary life
Mara Torres' leap into the novel was a final demonstration of that harmony between inspiration and empathy. Nothing better to meet someone than to expose them to a fundamental transition, to an event that modifies their daily existence and makes them rethink everything about the fundamentals of living.
A novel in which a great process of absorption is guessed from the stories of so many listeners who transferred their concerns and moments of loneliness to the author, which after all are all those in which life invites us to see it from the plane of the new and the unknown.
Nata breaks up with her partner, Beto. And such that if it were a guest who calls a nightly program and takes a deep breath when she hangs up and has already expelled her loneliness, we discover the difficult road to rebuilding, with the possible rewards that in the end can be more intense and make more sense. to everything. You just need to find a new support like Fortunata to dare to fly again.
Happy days
Throughout life there are simply happy birthdays, those of childhood, as soon as it is accompanied by some light. Later, others arrive who give you more thoughtfulness, some in which you resume that happiness and others in which you forget that you have a birthday.
According to this book Happy days by Mara Torres, the cycle that marks animic transitions is something almost mathematical fixed at five years, half a decade. A very interesting theory from which to weave a plot about the evolution of identity.
As we establish reference points in our passing through this world, what this novel establishes seems to me an extraordinary idea. To develop this fictionalized theory we get under the skin of Miguel who, after a call from his friend Claudia, climbs onto that retrospective path.
And this is how we discover how variable our identity is, the contradiction that ultimately guides our steps. What we were, specifically what Miguel was, is something that will never happen again. And the fundamental thing is to discover on which birthday he was happiest to consider when he most faithfully followed the dictates of his heart.
Happy days can occur beyond childhood (self-appreciation), but they will always be found in those moments in which we respond and act in a way more in line with the inertia of our soul.
Miguel is a reflection of a life easily recognizable by all of us: friendships that were considered eternal, student times, the discovery of so many things, frustrations and overcoming… so many and so many things. In the end, the important thing, as they say, is to tell it. And Mara Torres does it wonderfully.
Without you. Four glances from the absence
Imaginary life, that other great novel by the author, draws directly from these fractions of worlds and lives taken directly from the most intimate reality.
The four stories in this book acquire the special brilliance of that absence that hangs on the memories of the lives of very special protagonists and of how things are undertaken "without you." How to live without Dulce Chacón or without Buero Vallejo? Not in the general sense of loss of temper, but in the particular sense of those closest to him.
Living for Inma Chacón or Victoria Rodriguez, without the support of the captivating and brilliant personality of people like Dulce Chacón or Antonio Buero Vallejo. Living for Veva without his father Javier Tusell or for Alejandro Pelayo without his musical soul Mayte Gutiérrez ...
