Reviews of current novels
In liquid cities the contour of reality is distorted by the waves of the impact of each new concept. Marta Rebón invites us to visit these cities, inhabited by wise souls, capable of living in the midst of that sensation of a mutable world, at the whim of the reverberation of ...
In the cinema we already have several examples of sublimation of the harsh reality to protect the most vulnerable people. Billy Elliot or Life is Beautiful are two good examples. I had yet to find, in the recent narrative, some parallelism of that emotional intention of placebo against reality. ...
The new rich and their accommodation in the new reality. In our current world the social strata are reduced to the availability of economic resources. A nouveau riche is always welcome in influential class circles, at least on the surface. No one can deprive a new rich to become ...
It cannot be said that My Black Past, the second part of Como agua para chocolate, is a hasty novel, the result of the success of the previous novel. Almost 20 years separate both narrative proposals. A continuation macerated over the years, a reinterpretation of the deepest vital drives since ...
We are warned that the past can never be covered, or covered, or of course forgotten ... The past is a dead person that cannot be buried, an old ghost that cannot be cremated. If the past had those critical moments in which everything turned into what ...
The variable temperaments of siblings is something that never ceases to amaze those of us who are parents. But beyond an external psychological analysis, this book Sisters Lazos Infinitos talks about the connection between siblings, in this case between the four protagonists of the story: ...
The versatile Enrique Vila-Matas offers us the latest in the mosaic of his literary creation. Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider is the story of a writer, that kind of magic mirror in which the author has no choice but to recognize part of himself left in the protagonist ...
Our relationship with death leads us to a kind of fatal coexistence where each one assumes the countdown in the best way he can. Dying is the ultimate Contradiction, and Jostein Gaarder knows it. The protagonist of this new story by the great author is in a particular ...
The XIII Tusquets Editores de Novela Award 2017 brings us a unique story. The man secluded in nature, or liberated from society in it. A Robinson of whom we will soon want to know his reasons for isolation. The Mute wanders in his particular kingdom of nothingness, of emptiness ...
Nothing more hyperbolic and macabre than considering killing your father. But Águeda is like that. It is not a role that you have had to play. It's just a matter of monotony and boredom, of a badly managed pregnancy, the tedium of an insignificant life and the strange and ...
The maxim that the second is the first of the losers is not fulfilled in the case of the Planet award. Both the economic accolade and the media coverage are an incentive for a writer of great projection such as Cristina López Barrio. In the shadow of Javier Sierra, ...
The life of Hans Schnier has stopped for the reader. In the absence of an introspection exercise of his own, the now-defunct Heinrich Böll offers us a glimpse into the detained life of this unique character Hans Schnier. The truth is that the ...