There are cinematographic authors and their narrative proposals halfway between the literary and the cinematographic. Neil Gaiman He is one of those writers who script novels and books, who write very visual stories. The origins mark, and Neil Gaiman landed in the novel by creating a comic version of him: T (be careful with the serial version on Netflix), of such explosive success that, in some way, it must have led him to consider his leap to new literary formats that keep those images of the fantastic or the mythological alive.
His move to literature was successful to such an extent that he has already won several Hugo awards, the most prestigious in the Anglo-Saxon field for fantasy and science fiction.
An incorporation into the fantasy genre very much to take into account then and that moves with success between juvenile or adult fantasy or even incursions into mythological aspects inserted in the popular imagination for years, as is the case with his latest proposal, Nordic myths.
Without leaving this new fertile field of the novel, Neil Gaiman continues with his passion for scripts, animation, graphic novels and the fantastic as a tool to develop in very diverse creative fields.
3 recommended books by Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Gaiman has an exceptional virtue to integrate the everyday and the fantastic, the epic and the dreamlike. This novel moves between genres with a fantastic background tinged with existential.
The set, for readers who know how to indulge in these narratives of images and ideas, of timeless leaps and realities that end up surrendering to the fantastic, is truly suggestive and exciting.
Synopsis: Life in prison is hard. But there is always a ray of hope if you know that, when you leave, a woman who loves you awaits you, a friend who loves you, a job you adore, ... All that is what Sombra wants, who is about to leave jail ... But one day they tell him that his wife and his best friend have died in a car accident.
Then, hired by a strange elderly scam expert who goes by the name of Wednesday, Sombra begins an endless journey across America, haunted by the spirit of his wife, in which he discovers the boundary between human and human. the divine, and that the rules that govern the world of men are not the same with which the gods run the world.
Neil Gaiman come back with «American Gods»To give the best of himself and create a story in which gods and heroes shake hands, in which the fate of the very soul of North America is at stake.
Coraline
Coraline is a new Alice approaching wonderland, perhaps a Dorothy Gale about to be transported by a cyclone. For me this novel drinks from Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz, but of course, only in the most basic ideology, the one that ends up turning reality towards something that can be as fantastic as it is dark and gloomy at times.
Synopsis: The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring ... when Coraline He walks through one of the doors of his family's new house, he finds that there is another house strangely similar to his (although the new one is definitely better). At first, everything seems wonderful: the food is tastier than the one at home and the toy drawer is full of little paper angels that fly by themselves and of dinosaur skulls that seem to be alive and crawl around, chattering their teeth.
But it turns out that there is another mother who lives there, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and become their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to face them with all her ingenuity and the tools she can find, if she is to be saved and return to her normal life.
Nordic myths
Neil Gaiman approaches that icy, blue world. Norse mythology has a special point of connection with the atavistic of the human being.
Synopsis: Some theories suggest that these northern European settlers already knew the Americas before Columbus. From there to all the construction of deities, powers and mysteries buried between ice and snow. One of the differentiating points with respect to mythologies such as the Greek is the imperfect nature that Gaiman points out in this work.
Too many earthly gods who allow themselves to be governed by violent or sexual drives, men as demigods given to war for war and the display of strength and power. And in that composition less lyrical than Greek mythology, resides a special charm.
Fantastic literature that brings us closer to other Olympics, between alcohol and physical passion. It seems as if the Norse gods have discovered that true pleasures are to be found on Earth.
Thanks to this book, we review the heterogeneous narrative composition that is involved in entering these mythological references born of the cold. And we enjoy a chilling tale of desire, ambition and power through a harsh land where surviving circumstances seems the only motive for mortals and immortals.
An encounter between humans and legends, as if both shared that silent space where the icy currents of the North Pole circulate.
Scenarios from which fantasy emerges amid the harshness of a landscape as magnetizing as it is desolate, between ancient forests, wild beasts and the frozen steppe as any way to undertake any journey. The mjolnir or hammer of Thor as a symbol of that hardness, of souls and ice.
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