The undoubted creative vein of authors such as Frederic beigbeder or own Gilles Legardinier, ensures an assault on the literary from the new narrative proposals. Or at least, from novel approaches with tints of narrative claim.
Because both authors, French to say the least, come from that world of advertising where the mission is to insert the added value of a product against so many others.
While it is true that literature is something else. Nothing better than to start telling stories with that extra imagination towards the surprising. In the case of Beigbeder with a critical point on consumerism in his best works. Regarding Legardinier with a very different imaginary, a broader repertoire that floods with positivism, humor and vitalism. But that can also take turns towards darker plots.
So In Legardinier you can always find, in its novelistic aspect, those stories that misplace. Awakening the hilarity that anticipates intense emotions, or disturbing in its projection towards proposals of greater substance.
An author with whom to enjoy exciting plots from characters close to us with whom we immediately get that empathy that makes us move to the frenetic rhythm of their plots.
It is true that Legardinier also moves through the crime novel, the comics and in many other literary fields. But for now, let's admire what is coming to Spain.
Top 3 recommended books by Gilles Legardinier
The original miracle
In the time machine, by HG Wells we were already making an initiatory journey through the past and future years of our civilization. This book contributes much and good to this inexhaustible trend, extended from the first great writers of scientific fantasy like himself Wells, Asimov o Julio Verne.
With an overwhelming pace, we are entering a plot that masterfully links aspects of the history of the world. It is not that it is a journey in time, rather it would be an approach to incredible aspects of history. For Karen, an intelligence agent, history is her case. She knows better than anyone how to interpret why what happens happens, what has brought us here and what can await us in the future.
Karen is aware of the destabilizing elements of the world, those who try to adjust evolution to their darkest interest. When Karen is not involved in a larger investigation, she is dedicated to investigating thefts of historical pieces. This dedication is what ends up uniting her with Benjamin Hood, an expert at the British Museum, a mischievous and baffling guy who wanders between his passion for art and history and his messy personal life. Once united by force, Karen and Benjamin embark on the adventure of deciphering a great enigma after which they will not walk alone. Adventures, looming dangers and fast-paced action.
A spectacular cocktail as a leisure reading that at the same time cultivates its sophisticated plot, where the high degree of knowledge of our entire History is denoted. The world is transformed into a great puzzle where the most remote centuries and modernity become intricate pieces whose fit can be wonderful.
Dog days
The old idea of ​​breaking everything once again presented with that mixture of surprise and charm. More than anything for that old music of change never faced, in the case of Andrew Blake composes all his notes.
What is missing from a guy who has everything material in a sacrificial and irrelevant anonymity? At the moment in which Andrew discovers that everything he has gathered in his life has no meaning compared to the time lost with those he loved so much, his reasons for the turn take on the most transcendental meaning. And so we end up accompanying them determined to that adventure towards nothingness, towards that erasure of the past from the rewriting of destiny as a marked disappointment and mockery towards the guy that Andrew was.
In an old farmhouse in the French countryside with airs of old glories, Andrew finds his new space among grotesque characters who never quite feel located in a world on which they seem to float in a bubble of the past. Andrew's appearance as a butler will serve to focus all the characters in the house around his personality. Because he is willing to save that place as magical as given to the trifles and resentments between the owner and the employees and also among these own workers of the house.
Tomorrow i leave it
Love is that deceptive drug in which those who believe they are in control end up succumbing to its power over the will. In this foray into the romantic genre of the surprising Legardinier, we find a story about the ridiculous of love.
Because towards the wonderful horizon of falling in love we find ourselves, just like Julie, defenseless against the attacks on our previously iron will. On the way to that love conquest that Julie seeks at all costs, in the middle of a world that becomes more and more chaotic due to the weakness of the hardest drug, the grotesque is fully identifiable in any heart that has ever been thrown to the government of our existence, without other considerations.
And honestly, the heart does not stand out for being the most prepared of our organs to face the process towards conquest. Ricardo Patatras, the imposing neighbor, becomes an engine of everything that will lead the good Julie down the most unexpected and yet brilliant paths by that horizon of stupid happiness dictated to each tell-tale heartbeat.
