Historical novel reviews
There are things that despite their inert nature, accumulate life. This is the case of those galena radios that broke in at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, when we can see them in a museum or during an exhibition, or even in the home of one of those privileged people who still have a copy, ...
What could happen to a missing woman for twenty years? If the approach is already suggestive from the perspective of a society like ours, the matter takes a sinister turn if we locate the plot in Indonesia. In this country where religion and government intertwine until complete confusion, ...
The Oresteia has that immortal point of work. Its immaculate conservation from ancient Greece until today, make it a link with the origin of our civilization, a channel of communication with that world in which it all began. And as the Latin quote reads: «Nihil novum sub ...
If recently I was talking about the book Nordic Myths, by Neil Gaiman, with its intermingling point of mythology and literature, this time it is the turn of the book The Wolf's Smile, a work entirely of fiction about one of the most unique historical periods in Europe. from the extreme north. Run …
In the singular, decadent and transformative space of the interwar period in Europe, the writers and weight of the moment passed through their pages personal regrets, political disagreements and deformed social portraits. It seems as if only they, the creators and artists could know that they lived in a parenthesis of pessimism ...
The Flanders War fictionalized in its most interesting details. Under the real history of that eighty-year war (they would not spend arrows ...), germinated since the abdication of Carlos V in his son Felipe II the prudent (perhaps prudence as a euphemism for weakness), because this king was ...
The life and work of the Spartan people is always exciting. His arrival to this day as the best army of warriors, educated for battle from the cradle, is used as an emblem of effort, austerity and the fight and defense of all causes. Therefore, it always turns out ...
The effervescent decade of the sixties in much of the Western world was not so in a Spain weighed down for decades by Francoism. At the time I already reviewed the novel "Today is bad but tomorrow is mine", by Salvador Compán, and which presented the constricted space ...
In the days of World War II, the identity of those who were first hated, then repudiated, and finally sought out ended up reeling between feelings of guilt and misunderstanding. European citizens of any country were torn between belonging to an unfortunate origin such as the Jewish people, and conscience ...
The family can be that space full of unspeakable secrets hidden between habit, routine and the passage of time. Felicity, a recent graduate in medicine, is about to orient her medical vocation towards humanitarian tasks. She is young and impulsive, and maintains the kind ideal of helping others, ...
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 ...
Those of one side and those of another, the national martyrs or the red martyrs. Sometimes it seems that the question is to discern who killed more or more viciously. Justice is not a question of quantifying but of making reparations, and we are still working on it today. But in …