3 best books by Andrés Trapiello

The literary origins of Andres Trapiello they immerse themselves in poetry, with that enviable handling of the lyrical that in the end becomes another resource when the poet decides with prose. But the original poet who was Trapiello I don't know stayed with the novel and in the end he ended up encompassing everything, from the story, the novel, the essay and across the desk as editor.

A sum of literary intentions that, together with his passion for reading, reveal that fundamental desire to make his life a space between books.

It is true that I know little or nothing of his dedication to poetry, since my narrative tastes have always focused on prose. But it is good to know the origins of an author to see beyond the work that you are reading (in my case strictly novels), finding that magical synthesis of the writer capable of developing in all areas. Because when someone is capable of grabbing prizes for poetry and novels, it is because they have that gift of using language as a total tool for the exercise of the profession of writing.

Top 3 recommended novels by Andrés Trapiello

The perfect crime buddies

For a group of readers, literature becomes a kind of role-playing game. Among the most elaborate plots of a multitude of writers of the black genre, this group of readers inquire in search of references to commit the perfect crime.

But, beyond the fact itself, free of any blemish or clue that could incriminate the murderer, you always have to look for a motive, a will for revenge with enough weight to get to kill another person. Otherwise a perfect crime is just a gross homicide.

So, looking for the ideal victim, the readers and their leader really seek more revenge than justice, more gratuitous animosity than actual justification for the perfect crime in its full consideration as motive or cause and final perpetration.

A novel in which to enjoy the perspective of a group of characters in collusion towards a perverse end, until the dissonances typical of the critical point jump ...

The perfect crime buddies

When Don Quixote died

What happens when you close your last novel read? What about all those characters that have passed between paper and your imagination? Raising these doubts in the case of a novel as choral and universal as Don Quixote looks out into the abyss of the immeasurable ... So many lives of characters who ever crossed paths with the knight of the sad figure.

Andres Trapiello dared to such an adventure. The first of the characters that comes to mind is that of Sancho Panza, what would he do after the day in August 1614 when his outlandish lord died?

But in addition to Sancho Panza, we will know about the fate of Dulcinea, Sansón Carrasco, Cardenia, Captain Biedma ... so many characters who shone in their encounter with Don Quixote and who now have the opportunity to tell us what happened to their lives.

When Don Quixote died followed by The end of Sancho Panza and other fates

No more yesterday

In war, all participants have something to hide, even more so from their children. For José, Pepe Pestaña according to the moment, his father has that exotic point of the parents from before. Authority and remoteness, understood affection and a firm hand.

For José, his father was something very different from what he has become now, in old age. He, his father, lived the war from within, that civil war on which José has studied so much until he became Professor of History.

And the tough man who must have worked at the front now lives strange memories of moments of leisure with his companions in the trench. His father continues to play a game of seven and a half, started between shells and shots.

Because those he played with could never finish the game. But possibly that delusional card game paraphernalia also hides heavier memories associated with guilt and the need to escape ...

No more yesterday
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