The best books of Arturo Pérez Reverte

Books by Arturo Pérez Reverte

It is always a good time to offer a general perspective on the extensive bibliography of this academic of the language, capable of combining the most exquisite language with the most frenetic action, a great way to enrich language and entertain manifested in all of Don Arturo's work. Pérez Reverte. ...

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Line of fire, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

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For a writer of historical fictions, where fiction outweighs the informativeness of history, it is impossible to abstract from civil wars as a setting and argument. Because in that museum of horrors that is every fratricidal confrontation, the most transcendent intrahistory ends up emerging, the flashes of ...

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The Cyclops Cave, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

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The new aphorisms grow like mushrooms on Twitter, in the humid heat of the fiery haters; or from the studied notes of the most enlightened of the place. On the other side of this social network we find honorable digital visitors like Arturo Pérez Reverte. Perhaps at times out of place, ...

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Sidi, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

Sidi, by Pérez Reverte

The paradoxical figure of El Cid as the emblem of the Reconquest comes to Don Arturo Pérez Reverte's hair to dismantle the myth for a while, in the unifying sense of official history. Because precisely that, myths and legends always have their loopholes, their dark sides. On …

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A history of Spain, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

A history of Spain, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

Recently I was listening to an interview with Don Arturo Pérez Reverte addressing the issue of nationalities, the feeling of belonging, flags and those who cover themselves with them. The sense of being Spanish is today intoxicated by perceptions, ideologies, complexes and a long shadow of suspicion on ...

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Tough dogs don't dance, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

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With the last vibrations of Eva, his previous novel in the Falcó series, still reverberating in our reading memory, Pérez Reverte bursts in with a transitional novel between Falcó's proposals and what comes next. Be that as it may, this novel is presented as a fable with a strong symbolic charge ...

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Eva, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

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Lorenzo Falcó is already another of those star characters that Arturo Pérez Reverte has successfully built for Hispanic literature. Of course, this wicked, cynical and opportunistic guy has nothing to do with the glorious Alatriste, but he is the sign of the times. The hero yields the witness ...

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