Authors like Arturo Perez Reverte o Felipe Benitez Reyes and some others are lavish on social networks with the naturalness of someone who does not have a community manager or need one. And the matter seen like this is something else.
Because sometimes, in addition to expressing your opinion with the necessary clarity these days, these writers even get involved for better or for worse with anyone. In the end, an authenticity emerges, and in the end an echo, never imagined by the most ingenious interaction in networks of the CM on duty.
But that is not why the RRSS is why I bring Don Felipe Benítez Reyes here today, but rather because of his vast trajectory, a narrative channel drawn between meanders that irrigates all literary spaces from the novel or the story to the essay, through poetry and even the theater script.
Of course, with our usual fixation, we will stick with the fictional prose aspect, but it is worth at least mentioning the rest of the crops so that there is due record.
With this creative background, the novels of Benítez Reyes offer a polychromatic universe where we find humor and parody but also existential streaks from that realism clinging to the everyday as the setting where to synchronize the most accurate philosophical visions of the world: survival, happiness, attempts of truth, love and the evolution of time on stage of the human being.
Of everything and everything with that accurate story of the writer who is above all a maker of lives and a storyteller.
Top 3 recommended novels by Felipe Benítez Reyes
Chance and vice versa
Novels with a single protagonist, or at least markedly main, have the difficulty of their writing and the power, if the best knot is managed, to elevate the characters to that olympus of literature to which the author ends up ascending by default .
Benitez Reyes is a lot of essential protagonists. And that specialization is evident in an exquisite characterization where we all have room to change skin with them. "We can't even suspect the places where life is capable of hiding when we hustlers go out looking for life."
With reflections of this type we are presented with the protagonist of this novel: an eternal needy who grows up in a hostile environment and who is adjusting to a reality that fascinates and misses him in equal measure.
Born in a southern town marked by the presence of a North American military base, our hero will have many jobs, he will know the vagaries of good fortune and adversity, fulfilled chimeras and failed dreams, drift and course. In the background, the shadowy Francoist Spain, the equivocal and adventurous years of the Transition and our present of opportunists disguised as redeemers.
In his long-awaited new novel, Benítez Reyes draws a character that will remain engraved in the reader's memory: a perpetual survivor, a servant of many masters; a melancholic optimist who is not afraid of bad luck. This is a story of contrasts: joyful and chilling, realistic and enigmatic, fast-paced and thoughtful, hilarious at times and at times chilling. Like life itself.
The world's boyfriend
The narrow border between the insane and the genius, between the extravagant and the delusional, is always a matter of perspectives. Literature has always been the best way to elucidate who is who in this world in constant masquerade.
The pen of Benitez Reyes as in the past they could be salinger, kennedy toole or the very Cervantes is in charge of introducing us to the genius attacked as a grotesque, the delirious protagonist capable of glory and hell as the same composition of place, depending on the possible mutable morality.
The protagonist of this novel, Walter Arias, is a mixture of a surrealist philosopher and an anti-Freudian psychoanalyst, a romantic and a sexual obsessive, a harlequin and a monster, a moralist and a criminal. Finally, a mixture of everything that cannot and should not be mixed.
"My thinking oscillates between Descartes and the Baron of Munchausen", confesses Walter Arias, forerunner of the philosophical movement called Walterism, one of the least spiritual spiritual currents of all the past millennium knew. Mocking and ruthless, visionary and thoughtful, humorous and macabre, Walter Arias tells us the ups and downs of his life - his courtship with the world - throughout a hilarious thriller picaresque and metaphysical.
Mirage Market
Corina and Jacob have always lived off organizing art thefts. When they are considered retired from the profession due to their advanced age and lack of offers, they receive an unforeseen commission from a libertine Mexican with mystical tendencies who dreams of building a prism to see the face of God. The commission consists of carrying out the theft of the presumed relics of the Magi that are conserved in the German cathedral of Cologne.
From there, Benítez Reyes traces a subtle, though hilarious and devastating parody of the esoteric intrigue novels, their truculence and their wild peculiarities. But Mirage Market it transcends mere parody to offer us a diagnosis of the fragility of our thinking, of the traps of the imagination, of the need to invent life for ourselves to make life come true. And it is in this psychological area where this story full of surprising twists and an unexpected ending acquires a disturbing meaning.
Through enveloping prose and dazzling inventiveness, Benítez Reyes leads us into a territory of fascination and appearances, full of unusual characters and unexpected situations.
I have almost all the books of Felipe Benítez Reyes, as the world's boyfriend none
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