Philippe Claudel books
The war intrastories make up the most noir scenario possible, the one that awakens aromas of survival, cruelty, alienation and a remote hope. Claudel composes this mosaic of stories with a diversity of focuses depending on the proximity or distance with which each narration is sighted. The short narrative has that great…
Philippe Claudel is an author of supposedly philosophical novels. It is the least we could expect from a cultural anthropologist, a student of all artistic manifestations or of any other kind in which the human ends up manifesting their fears and dreams, their social circumstances and their eternal metaphysical doubts. With …
The best Claudel is back with one of his typical crime novels with that unexpected mixing component that only the creative capacity of this French author can make it work. The taste for the black genre is partly explained by its connection with that atavistic and dark part ...
These are times when alienation is reborn with greater vigor than ever. If in its origins alienation was considered a consequence of the chain work typical of the Industrial Revolution, today alienation has gained in sophistication and appears after newspeak, post-truth and ...