The motives for writing are inscrutable. Something very proper to describe the novelist Matt haig. The writer's vocation can be something like the faith of a Saint Paul who has just fallen from his horse. You don't have to know that you are a writer until you start doing it, until you feel away from the noise and you start to outline a story with their lives in the form of satellites that orbit around the imagination.
Be that as it may, nothing better than a creative catharsis to find the reason, the foundation, the new focus capable of giving a firm light in the darkness. So when you've read enough you are unknowingly ready to start writing, just like Haig did.
And that was when everything came together in Haig's case and he began to write all the pending books, all the plots on which to pour imagination in abundance, spread over disparate genres such as youth literature, mystery genre and until rehearsal. An existentialist point governs all of Matt Haig's work. Under the appropriate disguise of each genre we enjoy these approaches with the background of a literature with always finalist evocations.
The subtle final effect is a fresh bibliography, exuberant with imagination, transformative in its scenography of any theme passed through the author's particular sifting. Without belonging to the science fiction purer, his usual tendency towards speculation brings him closer to that genre in a tangential way, only with scenarios more attached to the recognizable.
Then there is the essay side, that non-fiction bibliography where each writer ends up reaching another type of imaginary more complex than the characterization of characters and the development of knots. More so in the case of a Matt Haig who wrote openly about depression, or who addresses ills already endemic to our current society connected to pathological extremes.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Between life and death there is a library. And the shelves in that library are endless. Each book gives the opportunity to taste another life that you could have lived and to see how things would have changed if you had made other decisions ... Would you have done something differently if you had the opportunity? ».
Nora Seed appears, without knowing how, in the Midnight Library, where she is offered a new opportunity to make things right. Until then, her life has been marked by unhappiness and regret. Nora feels that she has let everyone down, including herself. But this is about to change.
Between life and death there is a library. And the shelves in that library are endless. Each book gives the opportunity to taste another life that you could have lived and to see how things would have changed if you had made other decisions ... Would you have done something differently if you had the opportunity? ».
The books in the Midnight Library will allow Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, you will have the option of dodging everything that you regret having done (or not having done), in pursuit of the perfect life. But things will not always be as she imagined they would be, and soon her decisions will put the Library and herself in extreme danger. Nora will have to answer one last question before time runs out: what is the best way to live?
The humans
Literature is always an allegorical notion of life itself, even in the most direct and crude of its realism. On this occasion the allegory dresses in its best clothes to load a mystery web of symbols around the greatest of mysteries, the human mind.
Professor Andrew Martin of the University of Cambridge has just discovered the secret of prime numbers, finding at the same time the key that will guarantee the end of disease and death. Convinced that the secrets of prime numbers cannot be left in the hands of a species as primitive as humans, the Vonadorians, a much more evolved extraterrestrial civilization, send an emissary to make Martin and his discovery disappear.
And this is how a Vonadorian with the external appearance of Martin appears with the mission of killing the professor's wife, son and best friend, but he cannot help but feel fascinated by that ugly species and its incomprehensible customs.
Reasons to keep living
The initiatory work, the necessary catharsis, the end of the chrysalis. In short, Haig's book in essence, the turning point where we know the motives of the writer looking into the abyss and able to see the bridge on which to cross those unfathomable wells of depression. And of course one of those stimulating books from the example ...
At twenty-four, Matt Haig's world fell apart. He could not find reasons to continue living. This is the true story of how he overcame his depression, triumphed over his illness, and learned to live again through books and writing.
According to the author himself: “I wrote this book because the old clichés are the most real. At the bottom of the well everything looks black. There is light at the end of the tunnel, even if we don't see it… And words, sometimes, can really set you free.
