Life not only passes as frames shortly before the veil of the shocking final light (if something like that really happens, beyond famous speculations about the moment of death). In fact, our film assails us at the most unexpected moments. It can happen behind the wheel to draw us …
It's been a while since heartbreak left romanticism to make an appointment at the psychiatrist, like every neighbor's son. Narrating that raw heartbreak takes on another dimension in the hands of Daria Bignardi. Because it is about undressing miseries that they leave in cold solitude before a Universe that …
It is very likely that the worst is not hell and that heaven is not so bad. When in doubt, purgatory may even have a bit of everything for those who do not end up deciding. Something of impossible desires or obsessive fears; of skinless passions...
In the Harry Quebert series, closed with this case of Alaska Sanders, there is a diabolical balance, a dilemma (I understand that especially for the author himself). Because in the three books the plots of the cases to be investigated coexist in parallel with that vision of the writer, Marcus Goldman, who…
The man of the news that Vicente Vallés is for so many viewers, arrives with a novel that could well be presented as a fully current story with which to start the headline of the newscast on duty. Because the thing goes from Russia and from that exhausting cold war staged today to …
In its inexhaustible debt with the XNUMXth century. A time increasingly loaded with great stories as we move away in time, Modiano leads us through a plot that recreates that nostalgic notion of the ephemeral. In the idea of the possible trace that we can, or…
Posts to tackle a biography or at least a semblance of the passage through the world of the character in turn, better to entrust the matter to a novelist than to a renowned biographer. And no one better than James Ellroy to transcribe those snippets of life between some lights and many shadows… About…
It could be that Ignatius Reilly was an ad hoc incarnation of Don Quixote. At least in his notion of the madman stuck in the scene of the fight against windmills made giant by the overflowing imagination. And without a doubt Barry Cohen, the protagonist of this story by Gary Shteyngart, has a lot…
The cold is capable of freezing time in a place like Iceland, already shaped by its nature as an island suspended in the North Atlantic, equidistant between Europe and America. What has been a singular geographical accident to narrate the ordinary with exceptionality for the rest...
Every tree has its fruit. From the apple tree with its ancient temptations, enough to throw us out of paradise, to the common fig tree with its uncommon fruits loaded with symbolism between the erotic and the sacred, depending on how you look at it and, above all, depending on who is looking at it... A story in the …
The detective genre can offer pleasant surprises in that kind of reinvention that invokes literature from its very essence towards narrative evolution. Even more so if at the helm of the voyage we find an author like Elia Barceló. Once it is assumed that every reinvention brings surprise and new powers...
The issue of social networks and their abysses fictionalized from a fresh perspective. Because not everything can be abysses around social networks. In fact, I would like to have seen this current world of ours confined without a bad whatsapp with which to chat in a group or a …