Reviews of intimate novels
That love can turn into something destructive was something that Freddy Mercury already sang in his song "too much love will kill you." So this Sylvia book becomes the literary version. As a curiosity of curiosities it should be noted that both works, the musical and the prosaic ...
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 ...
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: ...
This is one of those collectors-only literary novelties. Both in form and in substance. What the great writer Joseph Roth could have kept as a sketch for a book to narrate his hard childhood has resulted in this final presentation long after his ...
There are countries like Portugal or Ireland, which seem to carry the label of melancholy in any of their artistic forms. From music to literature, everything is permeated by that scent of decadence and longing. In the book Return to Birchwood, John Banville deals with presenting an invaded Ireland ...
Havana was a city where nothing seemed to change, except the people who came and went in the natural course of life. A city as anchored in the needles of time, as subject to the honeyed cadence of its traditional music. And there it moved like a fish in the ...
Throughout life there are simply happy birthdays, those of childhood, as soon as it is accompanied by some light. Then others arrive who give you more thoughtfulness, some in which you resume that happiness and others in which you forget that you comply ...
Juanita Narboni, the protagonist of this novel, plays the role of the current frustrated par excellence. A character anchored in false morals and who is whipped inside by discovering himself wanting everything that repudiates his reason. Juanita becomes a fascinating character that hides from everyone and ...
I recently reviewed the novel On Cattle and Men by the Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia. It is curious that shortly afterwards I stopped on another novelty by another author from Brazil. In this case it is about Nélida Piñon, and her book The epic of the heart. It's true …
Relatively recently I reviewed the novel The Sun of Contradictions, by Eva Losada. And this book Better the Absence, written by another author, abounds in a similar theme, perhaps clearly disparate due to the differentiating fact of the location, of the setting. In both cases it is about making a drawing ...
In the singular, decadent and transformative space of the interwar period in Europe, the writers and weight of the moment passed through their pages personal regrets, political disagreements and deformed social portraits. It seems as if only they, the creators and artists could know that they lived in a parenthesis of pessimism ...
Breaking with the established is not easy. Doing it with respect to family plans is even more so. Pedro hates the military career, to which his ancestors belonged. At twenty, the boy is more oriented towards the fields of thought, and opts for science ...