Reviews of current novels
Swifts fly nonstop for months. They do not stop at all because they are able to meet all your vital demands in constant flight. Which confirms in some way what the wonderful sensation of fullness of flight can suppose for a living being. Aramburu may take ...
We already know that Julia Navarro does it in a big way in substance and form. Because although he has lowered the bar in terms of the volume of his previous novel that exceeded 1.100 pages "You will not kill", also in this story it exceeds those 400 pages that point to ...
The former footballer and philosopher Jorge Valdano already said. There are people, like himself, who talk non-stop when they get nervous. And of course, going to the doctor is a time when nerves surface. If you add to that the discomfort of going to exhibit ...
In a world of evident emotional matriarchy, the relationship in both directions of parents and children has that point of alienating contention, of silence due to incapacity and isolation as a defense system. Even with that, the latency of all those emotions as strangely rooted offers unsuspected flashes of drama, ...
The novel also brings warmth and shelter from the growing hostilities of our world. Beyond the desire for a black genre that reflects those spaces of reality where our demons live, it never hurts to let ourselves be carried away by a story that gives us peace or at least comforting ...
The human being exposed to the temptations of the devil made psychopathy. You cannot believe in the redemption of sins on earth, not of all at least. In the well where the worst instincts end up cooking and pushing like onslaught of lava that will destroy everything, they coexist ...
If I recently talked about the now deceased American writer David Foster Wallace, it is worth mentioning who could have been part of his inspiration: Thomas Pynchon. Because it is difficult for me to assume that good old Wallace, with his tendency to destructure the real towards a...
Perhaps it is one of the most intense contradictions to riding, as they say. I am referring to the paradoxical and progressive experience of wanting to grow up. Because as soon as you want to later, you want to return to that time when so many authentic things are abandoned ... And Pilar Quintana too ...
Current storytellers such as Colson Whitehead or Brit Bennett are very proud of the racial connotations as an argument. It is about abounding in that awareness of difference as something natural. Even more so from the stridency of considering the opposite. Michael Jackson didn't want to be black, they all ...
The Dutch writer Tommy Wieringa takes us into a true story about those stowaway children of the XNUMXst century. People of any age in search of a denied future. The old notion of borders as that ultimate nonsense, when one is able to deny the right to ...
Crapulas untimely. The typical effect between Mr Hyde and Dorian Gray that anyone over 40 years of age can suffer when they return to the alcoholic splendors of the night after having missed a few years of raising children, of Sunday hobbies never suspected before reaching ...
Edurne Portela was very successful in expanding on the magical contradiction of our towns focused on her representative Pueblo Chico. Because from each of those places where we come from, we carry with us a telluric magnetism that on our return makes us inhabit the present and the past. So all that ...