The 3 best books by Xavier Velasco

The plethora of great current Mexican authors is not only prolific but also diverse, both in generational representatives who remain at the foot of the canyon and in the disparity of genres addressed. With signatures like those of the inexhaustible Elena Poniatowska, to Juan Villoro or own Xavier Velasco, we can always find a little of everything and for all tastes.

In the case of Xavier Velasco We discover a leitmotif that runs through almost all of his works to confer glory on marginal worlds. Scenarios full of antiheroes, alienated people, apostates from life and losers of status where Xavier's literature ends up flying over everything like a breath of poetry in the apocalypse. The acidity of stark humor, the adventure of surviving when everything is against you, even yourself.

Realism then, without a doubt, with the scabs that hardly heal on the skin of those who inhabit it. But also the famous resilience, not so much invented with coaching but trampled on by day-to-day survivors as an example that the glory of coming out unscathed may still be possible today.

Top 3 recommended novels by Xavier Velasco

Guardian devil

The novels that you still remember after years and years of reading undoubtedly owe their memory to the way things happen between their pages. There are images in this novel that lead you to hell and lock you up, so that you always stay a little bit there, in those sordid places.

Violetta is fifteen years old when she crosses the border with more than one hundred thousand dollars stolen from her parents, also excellent friends of other people. Accidentally disembarking in New York, she survives every train for four years, spending several kilograms of ill-gotten money.

In order to maintain that rhythm, further accelerated by the white powder that he introduces through his nose in generous quantities, he is taught to hook men in lobbies of luxurious hotels. He does not know, nor is he interested in, the amount of laws, limits and precepts that he passes over.

Nor does she know that Nefastófeles, the supposed rich heir who dazzles her, will be like a dagger stuck in her beautiful back until, back in Mexico, he runs into Pig, and then the time of the Guardian Devil arrives. But what Violetta does know is that it's time to roll the dice and close her eyes, almost wanting the devil to take everything; and that, generally, you do that only when you think it is going to take you.

Guardian devil

The last to die

Everyone dies a bit at the end of a novel. The possible and strenuous effort of the author to convince us by means of some summary or epilogue of the contrary does not compensate for that feeling of mourning that awakens a fleeting sigh. Perhaps this time the matter entails more than a loss for your imagination ...

Here's a twisted love story. Our prospective hero has to earn his role in it with the rules he imposed as a child. There is no more serious matter for him than this game, whose raw material is scars. You need to live life on the edge, make a movie out of each day, and jump into the void without the help of a stuntman. Novelists, he thinks, are always what counts.

This novel is all about romance, jail, drugs, high speed, and the full-time job of being a writer and not dying trying: "We are adventurers and we have to bite tons of dust."

Because if the narrator's secret adventure ends when he escapes the scene, this time he will tell the story of the story. Tons of dust before landing on the last line.

The last to die

I can explain everything

Whoever is able to pronounce the phrase that this book titles, faces a very summary judgment with some tests around the will and the faith that not even the last human being in the final judgment ...

Joaquín is thirty, his life in pieces and the commitment to write a self-help book, in whose pages he only manages to perpetrate practical lessons in self-harm.

What is all that this XNUMXst-century rogue, who is one day a cornered fugitive, can explain the other shoddy therapist and, in an oversight, gallant prowler of the wakes of perfect strangers? Nothing that Imelda and Gina - two women with long shadows and short hair, each in their own way capable of anything - are willing to easily believe each other.

From poignant dialogue to acid introspection, the characters of I can explain everything They sterilize a story full of interwoven itches, deep-seated resentments and common demons, where each meander can be an abyss and one wants nothing more than to keep going down.

Not far from there, Dalila crouches: an ideal accomplice who is not yet ten years old and has never read a self-help book, but whose dazzled pupils already seem to reflect the sentence of the thug and teacher Isaías Balboa: «They give you time, life has to be stolen».

I can explain everything
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