I have to confess that when I started writing my first stories, when I grew up I wanted to be like Oscar Sipan.
It is not that I have been with him for a long time, in fact a little over a year, but his gift struck me since he won a youth literary contest to which I presented myself with more pain than glory.
So, at one time or another, it was fair to bring in what for me is one of the most remarkable people from Huesca today.
Determining what it is that caught my attention so much about this author is not an easy task. It is his way of leading you between his stories, that damn and enviable ability to find the puns that suddenly transform a scene, that use of language as if it were suddenly his alone, as if only he was capable of constantly discovering metaphors and twists that embellish the form towards the concept and that give continuity to the knot of the story as soft strokes that always anticipate something better.
Without a doubt, a virtuoso whom I have always admired in silence, as good writers who have something to tell you are admired.
3 best books by Oscar Sipán
Invented hotel guide
The truth is that the illustrations that usually accompany Oscar Sipán's books already offer that first sensation of facing a world under another prism. The melancholic touch of sepia ocher and the fantasy of Oscar SanmartÃn's imagination anticipate unpredictable journeys. And that is what happens with this book of stories. Passing souls that inhabit fleeting hotels, all phantasmagorical presences of how ephemeral it is to live.
Summary: Ludovic Sindone, the protagonist of this wonderfully illustrated book by Óscar SanmartÃn, travels through the fantastic cities of Alesia, Blonembun and Croatan and stays in their hotels.
Ludovic describes cities and hotels, mixes with their inhabitants and with the clients of the nonexistent lodgings he visits, and tells the stories of those who before him, occupied his rooms, sometimes invented beings, and other real ones.
Defeat notices
Sadness has always been a great well from which to extract the beauty of longing, the ancient aroma of the flowers of paradise lost, the narrow temperance to continue searching for a horizon on which the echo of the abyss clears. A great faculty of Sipán is to endow the strangeness with beauty, with lyricism. This book is a good example ...
Summary: The ten stories that make up this book, of very variable length, are really defeat notices or defeats proper. The fundamental theme is human relationships, particularly love ones.
Sipán has a very wise way of showing the lack of love, the breakups, the moments before or immediately after that cataclysm that breaks us in two and forces us to search, with the anxiety of a drug addict, something that will entertain us in pain and encourage us to get hooked on life again. His way of narrating these types of situations is beautiful.
In fact, I think they are the primary situations of most of these stories, a rupture (or the threat of it) pushes the protagonist to do what is narrated in the story, from a film in Los Monegros to the search for the grave of an American author who is buried in a small town in Alicante. Oscar Sipan He is a writer capable of sharpening any subject because he has the ability to see beyond what really exists in reality. From that reality, his reality, he obtains the material for his stories.
Defeat notices, arises from what he calls sentimental tsunami, a giant wave that swept his life again two years ago. That is why heartbreak is present in most of the stories. That is why the stories of Oscar Sipan they contain drops of the essence of your soul.
A good, restless soul, who continually questions the world around him. They are stories that show us the parallel reality, in which it introduces the reader naturally, in an easy way.
Concessions to the devil
It's been a few years since I got this first Oscar Sipán novel. And in her I found a successful transition, but a transition at the end of the day.
An intention to prolong the magic of the brief in a more solid prose. To weave together all that transmission power, the author launched into character narration. Some close characters who share a neighborhood but who are light years apart in their most intimate plots. In the contrast lies the magic. And about that, Don Oscar Sipán knows a lot about the magic of writing.
Summary: While we try to kill time, before time kills us, as Nacho Vegas says, we make risky decisions, we make mistakes, we give concessions to the devil. A jeweler with a reputation as a womanizer, a mature woman, a lost pensioner, a former professional cyclist, two writers and a marked girl are the characters that inhabit the first novel of Oscar Sipan.
