Historical novel reviews
Most of the great stories, epic and transformative, transcendental and revolutionary but always very human, start from necessity in the face of imposition, rebellion or exile in defense of ideals. Almost everything worth telling happens when the human being gives that ...
In a straight line from Puerto Rico to Miami and reaching a third vertex that reaches the Bermuda Islands in the jaws of the North Atlantic. The roughness of the sea, the unpredictable weather and some probable phenomenon of terrestrial magnetism have ended up supporting the myth about the incidences of ...
It is curious that the one who best immerses us in fascinating settings in the history of Japan is David B. Gil. Great current Japanese writers such as Murakami or Kenzaburo Oe achieve a very special literary mix. And yet it is David who ends up storming the bookstores with historical fictions about that world ...
Between 1945 and 1946 the famous hearings of the Nuremberg trials were held. The recent atrocity of Nazism required that immediate action that lasted for many months and that served as a kind of universal jurisprudence for the harshest consideration of war crimes; ...
Elia Barceló's versatility makes a retrospective of her work a complete bibliographic reference. Under the same authorship, we find a diversity of proposals that show a brilliant capacity. From its beginnings in science fiction to its transitions between historical fiction, the ...
Can prehistory be part of the historical novel genre? Beyond the fictions oriented to the fantastic, the time of the proto-men is plunged into cabal from the small glimpses that science can offer on that distant anthropology of the days of the caves. The question is ...
For more than three hundred years, the Romanovs ruled the Russia of the tsars first and later under their later denomination as emperors. But really everything was the same, absolutism around a servile aristocracy. And precisely in this oppressive scenario until the bloody final revolution of 1917, it is also ...
The suggestive mixture of the historical and the intrahistoric seduces any reader with that theatricality of what was witnessed in the first person to become, precisely, a more complete History. The survivors of any nearby period, but subjected to very different circumstances, are those theater characters who intervene very closely ...
The usual unfolding of John Banville and his pseudonym Benjamin Black comes with this novel to a kind of synthesis with a work that, under the signature of his alias, offers a double reading of historical fiction or noir. Thus, the Irish writer summarizes this double plot line ...
What has already been revealed as a historical trilogy finds, under this obvious title of continuation to La Villa de las Telas, now finds a first continuation barely three years apart so that we keep the characters, surroundings and circumstances fresh. Despite not being the plot of ...
Nothing better than a title composed as an ambiguous metaphor to awaken that curiosity about the image represented. It is about knowing how to offer an elusive idea or concept for reason that invites you to read to unravel its nature. Irene Gracia introduces us to «The Boreal Lovers». And immediately ...
Lo de Gisbert Haefs is a life devoted to literature both in the translation of very disparate authors and in an own bibliography rich in its obvious eclectic references and diverse in its ability to address very different genres. This time we approach a historical novel about ...