As in any trade, but above all as in any creative field, the seasoned author seems to provide that greater value for those who observe a final work loaded with greater relevance or at least with greater baggage than that of other upstarts located there by work and thanks to other aspects other than mere worth.
The case of Jacob Bergareche (alter ego in the physical of Manuel Jabois) is the paradigm of the narrator in search of the story to tell from the experiences, the readings and the unexpected strength of the lethargic writer or transmuted into other creative endeavors. It begins by writing stories or poems and continues to put black on white while discovering new things to continue telling in prose or verse.
Because the unpredictability also has its charm, the Guadian literary careers that emerge with new light from the underworlds. New images end up arriving from other poetic landscapes of impossible Honduras that dot a new novel to be written. This is how transcendent literature is made, to the extent that what shrinks our heart reaches or at least touches that parnassus of the soul with its haven of peace, love, happiness and later nostalgia.
Top recommended novels by Jacobo Bergareche
The perfect days
The ones that never happen. Those who draw a uchronic world only a step away, a decision, a chance. Those are the perfect days and they long for each other with the melancholy of what does exist on another plane, where another self fully enjoys perfection, casting a sarcastic smile on the other side, in the shadows of this world.
Luis, a journalist tired of his job and his marriage, plans to attend a conference in Austin, Texas. The trip is a mere alibi to briefly meet Camila, who has become the only incentive of his life. But when he is about to leave, he receives a message from him: "Let's leave it here, let's keep the memory." Heartbroken and not knowing what to do in Austin, he takes refuge in a university file, where he happens to come across some letters from William Faulkner to his lover Meta Carpenter.
Reading this lengthy correspondence helps you reconstruct the memory of your love affair and reflect on your tedious marriage, but it also helps you wonder how you have to live to make each day worthwhile.
With high doses of truth and humor and an enormous narrative force, Jacobo Bergareche drags the reader into this singular and captivating novel that universally explores the fever of falling in love and the inevitable routine of long-term relationships. A book whose exceptional solidity and originality reveal the author's literary maturity.
Return stations
The truth is never uncomfortable. What is uncomfortable is the way of discovering it, the tremulous eyes on the new bewilderment or the heart sinking by the discovery that torments or destabilizes morals. Looking back, between the hazy idealism of what we wish had happened and the raw blow of what happened ...
Jacobo Bergareche starts this autobiographical story with the news of the death of his younger brother, murdered in Angola, and amid the devastation that this fact leaves in his life, he begins a journey in memory, in search of those profound experiences, of lasting mark, such as the first love, the first great trip or the first readings, where the author tries to rescue those things that were worth living for, those in which we once found a perennial promise of happiness.
This is a book about grief and it is also the trigger to modify everything that we have made everyday, which changes the focus and lens with which we see the world and its memory. A path that opens to transform us into something new. Written with the tools of the best literature, it risks and moves by its sincerity, without sparing any uncomfortable truth.
Goodbyes
Each new encounter is a farewell to something previous. Especially in those moments when one step is a turning point towards the 180º turn. But the closure of vital episodes does not imply automatic forgetting. In fact, the thread of existence should necessarily unfold instead of drawing knots where everything narrows so that nothing flows, especially the truth capable of cutting off all possible new progress without threads of guilt.
Diego and Claudia are finalizing the preparations for the housewarming party of their house in Menorca. A few days before the event, while walking with his family, Diego recognizes a foreigner on a terrace that he had met at a festival in the United States. That woman, whose name Diego does not know and whom he has not seen for twenty years, helped him overcome a traumatic event. Diego would like to greet her but he doesn't dare to say hello to her, because then he would have to tell Claudia how they met. Intrigued, he will manage to see her again in an encounter that may change her life.
After the international success of The Perfect Days, Jacobo Bergareche returns to the novel with an exciting story that delves into passion, loss and the strength of memory. A book in which he displays all of his narrative talent and which confirms him as one of the most promising writers on the Spanish literary scene.
