Reviews of current novels
If there really is a female literature, then this book is a male literature raised in absolute equidistance with respect to that other narrative for women that presents stories about heartbreak and disagreement, about female resilience in the face of any adversity. Because in the end we are so equal that, in the face of defeat, ...
As a playwright, Sam Shepard knew how to transfer the most splendid art of the monologue to this novel. The history of theater, as a scenic art, is determined by great soliloquies that point to immortality from the simplicity of the character, of the human faced with his destiny. From the Greeks to Shakespeare, Calderón de la ...
The consequences of being weird, the border between genius and madness or between eccentricity and freakiness. The tormented final reality that had already been announced by the lightning bolts of madness. Before the hurricane he tells us the story of Curro, currently admitted to a center ...
These are times when alienation is reborn with greater vigor than ever. If in its origins alienation was considered a consequence of the chain work typical of the Industrial Revolution, today alienation has gained in sophistication and appears after newspeak, post-truth and ...
Literature sometimes takes indecipherable paths. Perhaps it is a search for de-labeling by the author on duty, or a desire to explore new languages in a world in which every term seems hackneyed, worn, manipulated towards post-truth ... And the young woman walks with that intention ...
Death and what it means for those who still remain. The mourning and the feeling that the loss devastates the future, establishing a past that takes on a look of painful melancholy, of idealization of details that are simple, overlooked, undervalued. An anecdotal caress that will never return, ...
Literature, or rather the narrative capacity of a writer, can manage to summarize two distant lives, present a mirror from which we are offered a progressive fusion between two symmetrical souls. The mirror in this case is established between two very different temporary spaces. On the one hand we know ...
A singularly paradoxical aspect in the transition to maturity is that feeling that those who accompanied you in a happy time may end up being distant light years from you, your way of thinking or your way of seeing the world. Much has been written about this paradox. I …
Romane is still confident in the possible recomposition of the human race. She is a stubborn young woman, determined to discover the irrational lion that we all carry inside. Our own ego is the worst lion, only that the fable in this case has little of a happy ending. Raphaëlle Giordano, expert in novels with ...
The biggest mystery can be ourselves. That is one of the basic notions that can awaken this novel that is shaping up to be a psychological thriller towards the mysteries of its characters. Two men face to face, Inspector Jorge Driza and the husband of an assault victim, Be. ...
The highest paid detective in the world would be the one who really found out what's wrong with us. Among the most atypical eccentricities in the world, those that drive our will among so many and variable stimuli ends up being a mystery worthy of official investigation. A psychiatrist could be the alternative, but the detective ...
A new trip to the idealized New Zealand of the writer Sarah Lark. Nothing more exotic for a European than the very antipodes. A setting that Christinane, the author behind the pseudonym, discovered with fascination and which she has so many times transformed into a setting for her novels. In this new installment ...