Reviews of current novels
The recent past has the advantage that it still preserves many of the spaces between which its scenes took place. In the worst case, when these places are lost, there are always the people who offer testimonies of what was. And if some of these testimonies, saved in ...
When someone like Nickolas Butler set out to write one of those life stories, in which we know the characters from infancy to full maturity, he was running a natural risk of falling into the naive when it came to the first narrative of ages. children respects. ...
In 1916, the Somme region of France was bathed in blood as one of the bloodiest scenes of the First World War. In 1971 the well-known battle claimed its last victims. A couple jumped into the air when stepping on a grenade from that scene. The past was manifesting ...
Since Don Quixote, novels about quirky characters who undertake a real journey and another parallel presentation of their personalities and their special way of seeing the world, have been lavished as a good argument on which to extend in a plot. In the case of the book ...
Existence can hurt. Setbacks can provoke that feeling of a world that concentrates a somatized pain every new day. This novel is about how the people of Holt cope with pain, The Song of the Plains, by Kent Haruf. True humanity, as a kind of ...
After reading a Spanish-style road novel: Tierra de campos, by David Trueba, we jump to other of those plots at the wheel of Héroes de la frontera. Without a doubt, these types of stories are a complete success when it comes to tuning in with the reader. The times …
It has always been said that there is nothing worse than feeling alone being around people. That kind of melancholic admiration for the lives of others, awash in the complete sensation of lack or absence, can be brutally paradoxical. But it is also said that the definition of melancholy is: ...
In my complete opinion, I consider that literary alter egos were rightly invented to be freer. As an eternal budding writer, I confess that a multitude of alter egos circulate like bastard offspring (interesting cacophony) through many of my books. The point is that the author's cameo between its pages ...
Empty Spain, Sergio del Molino's previous book, presented us with a devastated, rather than devastating, perspective on the evolution of a country that went from economic misery to a kind of moral misery. And I highlight the devastated perspective because the exodus of the people from the ...
That the world of art is in an unprecedented drift is an impression that I have contrasted on many occasions with many other laymen like myself. But the main question is that ... Are the impressions of the connoisseurs worth more about any artistic manifestation? Does it happen ...
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa is a writer for whom I profess a special affection. His narrative agility and his tendency to tell attractive stories, profusely documented on his settings around the world, always seemed fascinating to me. If we add his story of live rhythm, handling a rich language and with characters constructed in detail, ...
The fraternal ties serve as the first reference to the contradictory spirit of the human being. Sibling love is soon interspersed with disputes over identity and egos. Of course, in the long run, the search for that identity ends up intermingling between those who share direct origin ...