The 3 best books by Andrés Barba

Addressing the most unique aspects of the most personal universe, Andres Barba invites us to walk through a bibliography mainly of characters and discovery, mostly from youth. In his novels, his long stories or even in his essays this intention is given off by introspection towards interaction. From the undoubted subjectivity of the world to the coupling of the individual in the marked lines of the social.

It is not that we are before a philosopher. But yes that we discover and enjoy that vital philosophy of each one in mimetic personalities of protagonists with the essence of the existential. Because, as the wise man would say, "I am human and nothing human is alien to me."

In the profiles of the rich characters of so many novels we discover the particularity, the estrangement but also the harmony, the connection with that own universe that can end up escaping to normality once manifested to the open grave.

Social conventions such as general masquerades. A predilection for the truth among contradictions as an obvious manifestation of the misfit of the still photo. Small stories sometimes, and other larger novels. Crude realism at times and changes of registers towards allegories or a surrealism heir to that precursor that was Kafka.

In short, stories to walk through the difference with the full disquieting recognition of those characters that reflect us. Essays to finish by rounding out a very interesting thought for our days. A patina of humor born from the corrosive acid of living. Variety as an argument of the creative genius that reaches even children's literature.

Top 3 recommended books by Andrés Barba:

Stories of nothing

Sometimes you read a supposedly childish book and you don't know if it was an allegory with the metaphorical will of the moral, or if, beyond the fabulous story, it could be a safe-conduct that turns you into that child who returns to observe things between naivety and the fascination of discovery.

Nothing is a town whose name already anticipates the triviality, the insignificance, the vulgarity of the everyday. And it is precisely from there that we face the strange case of the dimming of the stellar glare.

The celestial night dome melts to black, perhaps as if forgetting that place where no one worthwhile stops to see the wonderful interpretation of the stars. The investigations of a diligence led by the mayor of the place to investigate what has happened, finally discovers the prosaic but always fanciful solution of relighting the switch.

A children's book that is not children's, one of those stories that can always be read and reread looking for the juice and the images proposed as symbols full of meaning.

Stories of nothing

Luminous republic

It is never easy to forget a story like that of "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. From great novels like that one, new plots can always be presented with certain analogies.

The plot of this story seems as if it brought the thirty shipwrecked teenagers on the desert island of Golding to a city called San Cristobal. A new representation of humans who, abandoned to anarchy due to ignorance of the meaning of life in society, end up indulging in the violence and improvisation that mark their drives.

From the very voice of one of those young people, precisely a new and last castaway from those dark days, we hear the account of events, of passions as laws, of the adaptation to the imperative of the boys determined to impose their moral guidelines.

Perhaps that first person will serve to give that final touch of spooky verisimilitude. Chaos is just a matter, as has always been known, that emotions and instinct overcome all criteria towards civility.

Luminous republic

August October

The character of Tomás faces those first times of adulthood, at that time in which childhood is being left behind like a skin mutation, like a decision with the doses of unapproachable error that every simple passage of time entails.

Tomás's old vacation spot, the playground as Antonio Vega would say. And the possibility of the critical moment that appears with that turn to early guilt.

A novel in which we devour the future of Tomás in the crude life transition that confronts him with the greatest of contradictions: youth. For him that step is temptation and defeat, falling into the crudest instincts without putting a minimum light of reason. And in that guilt lies the magical magnetism of this story.

There is no possible balance when the government of oneself is written by a few days of doubt, the assault of maturity, of violence as a way to break with everything.

August October
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