Reviews of current novels
Dystopia is not a horizon but a reality. But neither is it a matter of posing it narratively as avant-garde argument in a science fiction plot, nor of opening uchronies towards that more or less close world, with its fearsome parallel course lurking to intersect with ours. When Joyce ...
What seems like a title between the essayistic and the sociological is a novel in which Jim Carrey seems to put himself back in the shoes of his Truman character in that memorable show in which everyone observed his life from birth in a life made stage . ...
Contrary to what is happening lately in Spain with the "great" literary recognitions, in France a platform such as the Goncourt Prize serves to discover that great book that no one should miss. Another example would be Eric Vuillard and his "The Agenda". And so it is ...
It is always a good time to learn some idiomatic curiosity such as "Mengele Zoo", a phrase made in Brazilian Portuguese that points to the chaos of anything, with the sinister connotation of the insane doctor who ended his days in retirement precisely in Brazil. Between black humor and crude assumption of ...
A very intense and precious story by Erri de Luca around two characters markedly opposed by circumstances and the transcendental crossings of souls. The vagaries of fate sometimes are not so. In extreme reason or even in madness, each one judges his future, ...
We can find authors who seek to make literature with their interest in disclosing coaching systems, studied self-help methods with x percentage of success or whatever it is that can lead them to the condition of best sellers. And they may even have some foundation ... But then there are guys ...
With enormous audacity and overwhelming force, he recounts the profound complexity of love ties based on the intriguing and subtle relationship between a mother and a daughter as no one has ever told it before. A phone call marks the beginning of the journey: the young woman who tells this story leaves ...
What is loved is dreamed of. What moves the inner mechanism with passion ends up erecting the construct on which each one feels, lives and of course dreams. This novel has much of that dream come true in the truest form of the hackneyed transition. Because every dreamer ...
I don't know how many times, if at all, the fact that a writer repeats on the Pulitzer has happened. Colson Whitehead with the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2020 is already an idyll of a great creator, an honor that allows him to even show himself humble in ...
I cannot resist the analogy of this title to present my story "Dust in the wind", with the sound, in the background, of the homonymous song from Kansas. May Leonardo Padura forgive me ... The final question is that a title like this, whether for a song or for a book, I point to ...
Every time we envision that sensation of the dystopian looming over us like a whitish nuclear, toxic sky. Science Fiction made crude realism to a term seen as indeterminate as it is true. Given our inability to step on the brakes in the unbridled consumerist evolution (ratified in a confinement ...
Geography is not immutable either, as can be suspected from simple observation. She also ends up succumbing to unforeseen movements, to unimaginable separations from the untimely tectonic plates and all the magma that runs inside like boiling blood. From that idea, Élisasbeth Fihol tunes the times so ...