Reviews of current novels
If it was a matter of breaking taboos on mental illness, Emmanuel Carrère has done his part with this brutally sincere play. Only, on his inscrutable path towards the abyss, Carrère takes advantage of precisely that darkness to make us volatile, rambling and disturbing. Order and chaos are formally replaced and ...
The extrasensory is an emotion scattered uncontrollably on reality, a madness fit full of passions, sensations of ecstatic fullness or even air emptiness. Water is a challenge for the senses. As soon as it passes as a whisper of a stream as if it becomes a violent ...
It must not be easy to be Risto Mejide and launch into writing a novel. Because everyone expects from him a point of confusion and creative eccentricity. And of course considering a plot with its beginning, its middle and its ending is like thinking about pulling the missionary's position in ...
To get to this title, its author omits everything that Alicia had to do to get to that country. But Elena Medel is right to blur everything before Wonderland. because the country, the allegory, melt into squalor and Alicia could never fit into a ...
It all started with an industrial revolution and a strong vindication of the working class against the machine, Marx willing. But it turns out that the machine learned and began to pull off subterfuges, trompe l'oeils, deceptions and a rampant individualism ideal for the dissolution of common wills. Today the machine ...
The 2021 Nadal Novel Prize is the definitive recognition as a narrator of a Najat El Hachmi who makes literature that transmission belt of the sociological and the chronic to always transfer relevant notions about the underground of moral changes capable of pointing towards new horizons . ...
A novel is made up of as many intra-stories and therefore potential ramifications as characters inhabit it. Javier Marías knows this well, determined to recover a Tomás Nevinson from that nebula of potential protagonists at the mercy of the narrator's imagination. And so that of Berta Isla points to ...
The sordid, the most tacky part of the world, that swamp under all the good intentions of the world, wakes up its stench as we get older. Still saved by innocence waiting in that of awakening to cynicism, the last drops of hope lift the refuge. It's about that ...
In recent American literature, many authors have visited the American dream as an argument to also offer its shadows and deformities. The result is that more complete notion of any society through reality in raw, dirty or raw ... And Chuck Palahniuk ...
Once the sky of the writer's profession has been touched (perhaps in the most unexpected and therefore authentic way), each new Landero novel is a prayer for his legion of faithful readers. Basically (although it is already saying a lot), because it connects with that pending life, that story never lived and that ...
For some time now, Maalouf has dazzled with his novels, on the one hand, brimming with erudition between the Christian and Muslim legacies when he approaches historical fiction, and on the other, with a kind of synthesis loaded with reflection and action when he launches himself into the novel. current, …
After Mariana Enríquez, the next to win the 2020 Herralde Novel Prize is Luisgé Martín. And so this award is confirmed as one of the most highly regarded with great literature. Because each new award-winning work always leads us to that terribly serene shore, where they break ...