History always houses those yearning scenarios for a narrative at the height that rescues the dream of the just or the unjust who wrote, so often with blood, the chronicle of the events. Because perhaps what transcends is the timely dictation of the future of the world. And it can always be a good time to clarify and reveal aspects.
Historical fiction writers such as Ken follett o Arturo Perez ReverteTo name two greats, they recreate themselves in that world that has already been defeated, where intrahistories leave a fascinating trail that they finish adorning with the gift of the good writer of historical fictions.
Laurent binet he is also a good fictioner. But his biggest leap, his worldwide recognition, was achieved with novels in which documentation and methodical reconstruction weigh more than the fictional parallel. Neither better nor worse, just different. Because everything is a novel, only that in the case of Binet in some of his works the novel contains that commitment and a precise intention to discover other truths.
The funny thing is that when an intrepid writer com Binet discovers an aspect of world history not yet transferred to the scope of the novel or film of the day, he usually delves into it down to the deepest detail. It is about recreating as if it were a play, a life script, a journey to the very heart of the events, where the truth beats with that power of the transcendent events visited with strange novelty, luxurious detail, and fascinating closeness.
Top 3 recommended novels by Laurent Binet
hhh
From the letter H was the thing in the "sinister Nazi empire." Because famous is the transcendence of this letter in a symbology that, coinciding with the Hitler surname, adduced the adoration of the macabre leader with his HH de Heil hitler or the number 88 for the eighth position of this letter ...
hhh. Behind this mysterious title is the German phrase Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." This is what was said in the SS of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, considered the most dangerous man in the Third Reich and one of the most enigmatic figures of Nazism.
In 1942, two members of the Resistance parachute into Prague with the mission to assassinate him. After the attack, they take refuge in a church, where, betrayed by a traitor and cornered by seven hundred SS men, they commit suicide.
An epic story of David vs. Goliath, one of those rematches of impossible victory, a coup and the honor of dying with the Machiavellian satisfaction of the death of a monster.
Civilizations
The black legend of any empire speaks of imposition and violence, of desolation and eradication of all different cultures. Only in some cases it is more true than in others, as he already explained to us Elvira Roca Barea in his best known book.
This novel does not marry anyone. It neither mythologizes nor exonerates, nor does it stain black or white. It is about seeing all human movement as a natural succession of wills without roots with a country or creed. Freed from all ethnocentric impressions, you can enjoy reading well-documented fiction.
1531: Atahualpa appears in the Spain of Emperor Carlos V to meet the Inquisition and the miracle of the printing press, but also with a monarchy exhausted by constant wars, the permanent threat of the infidels and what is even more worrying, with peoples that hunger can lead to the limit of revolt. In short: the allies Atahualpa needs to build his empire.
Instructive and fascinating, Civilizations It is the fruit of the author's exquisite erudition and an overflowing imagination: an exercise in narrative daring that contains a deep reflection on the traces we leave in the past, the imperfection and ambition of the human being and the world we have built.
The seventh function of language
On March 25, 1980, Roland Barthes was killed by a car. The French secret services suspect that he has been assassinated and the police inspector Bayard, a conservative and right-wing man, is in charge of the investigation.
Together with the young Simon Herzog, assistant professor at the university and a leftist progressive, he begins an investigation that will lead you to interrogate figures such as Foucalt, Lacan or Lévy ... and to discover that the case has a strange global dimension.
The seventh function of language is an intelligent and cunning novel that narrates the murder of Roland Barthes in the key of parody, loaded with political satire and a detective plot.
As I already did with hhhHere, Binet again breaks the boundaries between fiction and reality: he mixes real facts, documents and characters with an imaginary story to build a daring and hilarious story about language and its power to transform us.
For when a new book by Binet?
His style catches
Let's hope the muses attack it soon...