Historical novel reviews
There was a time when poetry prevailed in consideration over prose. Walter Scott dreamed of being an ingenious poet, but he dedicated himself to reconciling waiting for lyrical muses with writing novels, a task for which he finally had to admit that he was more ...
The fascinating story of Plautilla Bricci, the first modern female architect, in 1624th century Rome. One day in XNUMX a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a chimerical creature, a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, called the Briccio, …
The most established facts in the popular imagination hang from the thread of the official chronicles. History shapes national livelihoods and legends; all pasted under the umbrella of the patriotic sense of the day. And yet we can all intuit that there will be more or less certain things. Because the epic is always...
There are authors in whom, beyond their work dedicated to their readers, they end up transcending their figure dedicated to that cooker of opinions that are the media and social networks. It happens for example with Javier Marías, Arturo Pérez Reverte or even with Juan Marsé. And something similar happens...
Orphan of both parents from a very young age, Bernard Cornwell can be said to be the prototype of a self-made writer. Although it is a more practical than romantic consideration. The truth is that he became a writer out of necessity once he moved to the United States, entrusting his destiny ...
When a historian decides to write a historical novel, the arguments shoot up to infinity. This is the case of José Luis Corral, an Aragonese author who dedicates himself profusely to the genre of historical fiction, alternating it with publications of a purely informative nature as a good scholar in his area. Environment …
Only a persistent semiologist can write two novels like Foucault's Pendulum or The Island of the Day Before and not perish in the attempt. Umberto Eco knew so much about communication and symbols in the history of humanity, that he ended up spilling wisdom everywhere in these two ...
There was a time when Europe was an uncomfortable world to be born in, where children came into the world amidst nostalgia, uprooting, alienation and even the fear of their parents. Today the matter has shifted to other parts of the planet. The question is to take that view ...
Hildegarda's personality introduces us to the misty space of legend. Only there can the myths of saints and witches inhabit with the same relevance in our days. Because today a miracle to recover a blind man has the same trickery as a spell capable of ...
It will be up to Luperca, the kind she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus. The point is that the incontrovertible legend fits perfectly into a part of the vision of the Roman Empire as an implacable but organized culture, with an instinct for survival and even perpetuation. Because there was no other civilization ...
1917 - 2013… Once this enormous writer has left, no one will be able to know when he reached that transcendental wisdom that he displayed in any interview or conversation, and that was even better reflected in so many books. The important thing now is to recognize the evidence, ...
As always, literature to the rescue of History. Nothing would be of learning about our past without the necessary screening of literature. Because historical fiction goes beyond the chronicles that underpin the events and their dates for devout believers in the officers. Nélida Piñón offers us ...