Historical novel reviews
The rare birds and their synergies to implode the world. Because in the eccentricities there is that naked truth, without restrictions or trompe l'oeils. A vision of Shakespeare as taken out of the main focus to trace the impossible line of anecdotes, of the experiences that masterpieces can provoke or ...
The María Dueñas phenomenon represented a whole emergence of novelists devoted to the cause of the recent past, between the nineteenth century or even the nostalgic of the first twentieth century (I dare not say twenty-mononic). But when the real one, the precursor in Spain of all that recent epic of our ancestors ...
Jorge Molist's historical fictions always have that epic aftertaste that goes beyond merely referring to battles or conquests towards the essentially human. Because beyond the current profile of the king or queen of yore, what readers of historical novels long for is recreation more ...
The ladies of the Spanish thriller move alternately in search of the best seller that always convinces the most impatient readers. For more tracks, both ladies are awarded with two recent Planeta Awards (let's not be naive either, with their undeniable concession to the commercial for greater security in ...
The thing is about manuscripts. Nothing better for this than reinventing a great like Fernando de Rojas to end up giving a metaliterary residue to a plot that in its most natural aspect also dazzles the reader. Luis García Jambrina's efforts in this series are already bearing fruit ...
In Gonzalo Giner's bibliography we enjoy one of the most fascinating historical fictions on the national scene. Because the search for suggestive narrative arguments always prevails over the setting, already perfectly documented. On this occasion, as often happens in the narrative evolution of Gonzalo Giner, the ...
Naples, 1946. The Italian Communist Party manages to transfer seventy thousand children in order to temporarily stay with northern families and experience a different life away from the misery that surrounds them. Little Amerigo is forced to leave his neighborhood and climbs into a ...
In the wide space of historical fiction, Marcos Chicot is one of the most experienced narrators with his particular plots of maximum tension. The question for Chicot is to achieve narrative alchemy. Thus, on the one hand strictly respecting scenarios but also using them to further enhance that ...
Welcome to the transformation of this German bestselling author of the black genre into Anne Jacobs the great feminist storyteller in a historical key. The barbaric comparison comes in handy to delve into the new of a capable Charlotte Link, in light of her new success in the fiction genre ...
The defeat of Nazi Germany sounded like a well-justified punishment. And based on this, black pages of an atrocious world continued to be written. A world that advanced in parallel with the spirit of liberation, its music and its parades. Maybe that's why this novel appears so original, because almost ...
In a way, Pierre Lemaitre is the French Arturo Pérez Reverte for his versatility. Convincing and fast-paced in black genre plots with the ambition of portraying our underworld; disturbing in its realism determined to expose so many miseries; fascinating in historical fictions with a transcendent vocation from the juiciest intrahistories. ...
Things must have been otherwise, no doubt. Feminism should not have been a self-defense movement, forced by circumstances that have occurred since the dawn of time. But every culture, every civilization always advanced with the ballast of the feminine as something "complementary" at best ...