It is always a good time to recover the debut of one of the best current Spanish writers, Javier Marías. Because this is how the budding narrator is discovered with all the creative university ahead. A privileged rereading that tells us about the narrator's own voice. And also because great novels never grow old but magically adjust to new imaginary, to mutating moral approaches, with the strange certainty that, as the wise man would say, there is nothing new under the sun.
Set in the United States in the first decades of the XNUMXth century, it narrates a series of fast-paced adventures that range from crime fiction to melodrama, from the tale of rural passions to the Civil War, from police intrigue to gangster fights or the southern exoticism tinged with its traditional harshness.
Considered a transgressive and unusual work at the time of its appearance, The domain of the wolf is a funny and clever parody and a tribute to the cinema of Hollywood's golden years. In it, Marías already shows a remarkable narrative maturity, a sharp irony and a dazzling capacity for fabulation. This "excellent and cruel pastiche", in the words of Juan Benet, with its daring structure, its deliberate use of the topic, and its extremely agile technique, was ahead of its time to become the forerunner of today's most lively literature.
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