About journalism and literature as parallel or tangential paths is something more than evident. It is natural that synergies occur between those who dedicate themselves to portraying reality through articles and columns in the written press to finally opt for narrative as a natural desire to tell stories, more or less close to reality.
pillar eyre She is one of those journalists with a vocation who finally made the leap to fiction, or rather to a combination, a fictionalized realism in which she manages to narrate personal aspects seasoned with that aftertaste of a novel that allows the author to give vital testimony at the same time that disguises everything as suggestive literature.
Fundamental themes such as love and humor, defeats, losses and everything that hangs over every person who raves through this valley of tears ...
However Pilar also wrote books in which she addressed the journalistic essay, the biographical through front-line characters, from the most famous to the most controversial, or the social chronicle. Without a doubt, the origin of his fiction proposal came from these first non-fiction books.
3 recommended novels by Pilar Eyre
My favorite color is green
Who does this title not sound like? Beyond being a finalist for the 2014 Planet award, the suggestive nature of the title caught the attention of many. But the most curious thing is what it integrates, what it is composed of.
A love close to the impossible moves the whole plot. It is not a romantic proposal in the rosiest sense, but rather in its deepest aspect, reminiscent of that classic romanticism of the impossible, of the unrealizable.
Summary: Pilar Eyre, a mature journalist still in the grip of a great passion for life, meets, during a summer on the Costa Brava, Sébastien, a very attractive French war correspondent. An unexpected love arises between them that leads them to live three days of intense erotic and sentimental relationship.
When Sébastien suddenly disappears, Pilar desperately searches for him, following the ambiguous clues that the journalist has left behind, but the results are increasingly surprising and mysterious. This is not a beautiful twilight love story, this is a beautiful love story between a woman who dares to go to the limit and a man kidnapped by unforeseen feelings. My favorite color is seeing you is a real adventure. Let's tiptoe closer and look through the keyhole: there is a naked woman in there.
Nomeolvides
Being a finalist of the Planet must have a special taste, and in part contradictory for that of touching limbo ... But the exercise of sublimation that this novel is is curious. Pilar part of that celebration as a finalist to translate a hasty alter ego into a fascinating story.
Summary: That night in which he was a finalist for the Planeta Prize with a novel full of love, passion and adventure alongside Sebastien, the man she had met another magical summer night, Pilar Eyre made a decision: she would not abandon her incessant search for love from French.
The capricious fate wanted them to meet again and try to guide their steps together, but a surprising twist of chance will write a new page in this beautiful love story. As we met her in My favorite color is seeing you, Pilar once again undresses in front of the reader and traps him in a new funny, endearing and heartbreakingly human novel.
His adventures after being a finalist for the Planet, his love for Sebastien, his peculiar friendship and family relationships and all his attempts to find the elixir of eternal youth are masterfully reflected in Forget-me-not, a novel as funny and as true as his own author.
A love from the east
Sensuality as a set of sensations, smells, essences in the background and in the forms. But also sensuality as a complete surrender to the senses, to the emotions surrendered to passion. A story reminiscent of Anthony Gala.
Summary: Pilar Eyre immerses us in the intimate and secret biography of a woman of innocent and refined sensuality who, arrived in Spain in the seventies from her native Manila, will end up becoming a prominent figure in the high society of the time. Passionate, free, funny and a great lover of pleasures, Muriel will star in a fiery and tortuous love story with a handsome and seductive artist who struggles to climb to success.
In the tradition of the best roman à clef, this pulsating narrative hides under its fictional mask very recognizable characters whom the author skilfully undresses with her pen. Full of unpublished details, captivating anecdotes, laughter and tears, it is a book that will engage the reader from beginning to end with a story as surprising as it is scandalous.
Other recommended books by Pilar Eyre
Of love and war
From the antagonistic in search of the most passionate synthesis. From the deep darkness, only beings of light are capable of reaching the surface where love can still be cultivated.
In February 1939, the Spanish civil war gave its last bites. When an Italian bombardment takes the lives of young Román's parents, it also cripples his ability to love. Despite not being in love, he marries Beatriz, a young woman from a well-to-do family with whom he will have a son. But everything is turned upside down when he has to flee to France. There he meets Teresa, a young communist with whom he begins a relationship full of secrets.
In Barcelona, Beatriz's family tries to protect her from Román's "red" past, of whom they have no news, and they fake his death. She has created a law firm and started a new life. But when Román, after a few years of tortuous exile, obtains his freedom and his passport, he feels that his heart has been full of ashes for a long time and he embarks on a trip to Spain in search of himself and his true life, without knowing what he will find. upon arrival in Barcelona.
