The most recognized writers of the twentieth century are necessarily oriented to the feminist claim in their cultural field, since culture is the ram for changes of any kind. The female assault on literature was already coming from behind, but it was still due to the naturalization of open spaces in all types of social circles.
Taylor caldwell She went through the same trance of having to hide behind male pseudonyms to gain the endorsement and prestige with which to finally present herself as the female writer, undoubtedly as capable as any other male author (it sounds violent until the evidence is cited). From Simone de Beauvoir but also Lucia BerlinTo cite two thematically antagonistic figures of the end of the millennium, the feminine in literature strongly pushed towards equality.
Taylor Caldwell went through Marcus Holland or Max Reiner before "coming out of the closet" and revealing herself as a writer who combined the historical genre with her taste for family sagas, that kind of particular drifts that make up the intra-stories with which the world ends up moving in each phase of our evolution (or involution, depending on how you look at it). And the truth is that his prestige was always on the rise.
For an author focused on historical fiction, her narrative proposals always advance at a frenetic pace, without falling into the easy erudition of those who know what is narrated or the indoctrinating will of those who seek something more than telling an exciting story in a historical situation. attractive.
Delving into the work of Taylor Caldwell always means enjoying a historical genre that balances, as its greatest virtue, the descriptive and the fictional, in a set that ultimately involves the sifting of straw that is often missed in this type of usually longer novels. Something like finding the perfect number of pages so that each reading stroke immerses us with the same intensity as what we read the day before.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Taylor Caldwell
I, Judas
My first approach to this author was due to this novel. The twisted and eccentric characters in History have always caught my attention the most. Knowing the reasons that lead to evil helps to know the nature of the human being in its most complete dimension.
And the truth is that I enjoyed it like a dwarf. Because from a novel with historical overtones, you always expect the whole part, the development with a point of brilliance from the investigative author. In this book everything is so perfectly integrated that at no time do you find that egocentric boast.
Everything that is told serves the cause of the knot and the end of the story. Humanizing Judas, an arduous task undertaken by Taylor under the idea of a diary of Judas himself, rescued from the now lost Library of Alexandria by an ancient Egyptian monk.
When you consider that what we know of Judas may be an interested narrative twisted to seek an antagonist to the Christian cause, the reading acquires some epic overtones in which you need to continue reading to know the deepest truth of a fundamental character of the Christian imaginary who, suddenly, everything upsets ...
The legend of Atlantis
Taylor's narrative capacity borders on the impossible when it is ruled that his first draft was written at the age of twelve in a kind of childhood trance. You never know completely ... myths and legends surround diverse characters with their doubts and their shadows.
But… what if it was true? What if that mysterious dizzying cadence of this author is due to the fact that her wickers are raised from a childhood in which the priority is to tell something without paying much attention to the forms? Considering that different wording in the historical genre, lighter and more intense, the myth may be true.
The point is that this novel takes us to that time suspended in the memory of Greek legends, that moment in which the prosperous lost island brimmed with life and from which the world was ruled.
Physicians of bodies and souls
The exegete revisionism of the Christian sacred texts was not stopped in the figure of Judas Iscariot. The Evangelist Luke was always the most puzzling of the 4 Evangelists.
Scholars cite some gaps between writing and research on the character that raise doubts. And wherever there may be a doubt about the sacred, a good writer will always appear wanting to abound in the apocryphal notion of everything that surrounds Christianity.
But the most curious thing about this story is that you are not looking for a tabloid novel in the sense of a revealing bestseller that ultimately turns to soda.
Here the question is to delve deeper into this mysterious Lucas who seems to hide some secret and who finally, following in his footsteps, we reveal as a nebulous and magnetic legend of one of the first doctors.
Definitely a passionate writer. (+) When you start reading his works, you want to finish reading with a bang; But at the same time you wish I didn't finish the book.
The historical quotes in its content give it a very own touch of reality of the characters.