Fantastic novel reviews
The road movie or road novel has a disturbing point, whatever the theme they finally tackle. Because the road is an excuse. The road, travel ..., everything that involves a traffic can suffer an unforeseen turn at any time. And Charlaine Harris knows a lot about that ... ...
Fear, as an argument for the fantastic, offers a vast terrain by which to surprise the reader, a space where you can overwhelm him at your whim and make him feel those chills that uncertainty causes. If the story is also the responsibility of José Carlos Somoza, you can be sure of ...
Fantasy, touched by an author such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, a down-to-earth, existentialist guy, deep in his way of narrating his different detective novels or even science fiction, ends up endowing this specific literary work with a singular nature to halfway between estrangement ...
Stories with animals as protagonists. Beyond the predilection of George Orwell, evident in works such as Rebellion on the Farm, recent authors present total protagonism to the companion animals par excellence, the dogs. Laurent Watt awakened our most tender instincts for these faithful and loyal animals ...
Norse mythology has a unique exotic point, mainly because it is about countries not so far away today (few hours by plane separate us). Some theories suggest that these northern European settlers already knew the Americas before Columbus. From there to all ...
Love can take many forms. Those of us who, as a first courtship, know well that we had that imaginary girlfriend or boyfriend, curiously very similar to the girl or boy we really liked and who ignored our evening declarations of love. Something like this happens to him ...
A sinister allegory of women today. Said like this it may sound like a pretentious judgment, but so are subjective impressions. And it never hurts to say them to start a debate about a work of fiction with a certain point of complaint and controversy. In the book In state ...
The African-American author Colson Whitehead apparently abandons his tendency to the fantastic, addressed in recent works such as Zone One, to immerse himself fully in a story about freedom, survival, human cruelty and the struggle to overcome all limits. Of course, the baggage ...
The most important thing, in my opinion, for the narrative construction of a good parable is the set of symbols and images, successful metaphors that are recomposed for the reader towards aspects of much more substance than the scene itself. And the book The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse ...
Especially traumatic moments are a bit like that. The feeling of unreality causes a kind of unfolding. An exhibition in front of the broken mirror of reality. It is easy to understand, then, the fantasy that this book plunges us into If cats disappeared from the world. It may not happen ...
I like to get lost in one of those works set in Nazism, or in the Second World War, or in the atrocious postwar period with that contradictory spirit of victory among the prevailing misery. In the case of the book Good Night, sweet dreams, we travel to the days after the victory ...
The fantasy genre is what it has, any assumption can become an interesting story. The main risk is the rambling or the argumentative blunder, justified and / or protected by the fact that everything is possible in the fantastic. A good pen dedicated to writing novels of this genre knows that, precisely because ...