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Beyond the great Murakami, writers like Yoshimoto or Shimazaki show that Japanese literature is also a matter of great storytellers in charge of the transversal universality of all cultural events. Nothing more pretentious in its statement as effective in its reality. Because the best synthesis is the mix between cultures. ...
It's always good to meet up with old friends like Alan Pauls. A writer you lost track of is like that high school classmate you meet over a few beers and you end up lying about the divine and the human. Because romance is lying like knaves. But …
In a way, the war reporter serves as such for life. If not, ask Arturo Pérez Reverte or Max Hastings himself. It is not that these two great writers were left with the hollow gaze of the thousand yards, as it used to happen to ...
The fact that historical fiction, understood as a genre capable of being compatible with other components such as romanticism or even science fiction, has been approached mostly by female writers, gives much to think about that more capable creative side in their case. Because it is already a coincidence ...
Be it a novel or a story. The question for Liliana Blum is to make a mosaic of all narration. A kind of puzzle where the pieces never fit except through the force of hopelessness. All finally joined with a glue improvised by the circumstances, without a thread of possible destiny or magic lace. AND …
In Buarque's case, everything would begin by composing a song. Unadorned literature usually comes later, when the time for songs is completed with a more extensive communicative need. Because beyond the lyric capable of assaulting the emotions, the rational remains parked, more prosaic but still ...
In the wake of Chesterton, a fervent Catholic and a dedicated writer thanks to Father John O'Connor, another modern-day father named Pablo d'Ors professes a writing profession with that catholic band as his horizon. And that the matter ends up being invaluable in both cases, if ...
The literary origins of Andrés Trapiello are immersed in poetry, with that enviable handling of the lyrical that ultimately 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 ...
Sometimes the Nobel Prize in Literature awards more attitudes, contexts or other unfathomable motives than strictly works. In the case of Jelinek, with an undoubted creativity overwhelmed by different aspects, her political commitment and her charismatic reach superimposed her as a candidate for the Nobel over the quality of ...
In my opinion, the Nobel Prize for literature will always be indebted to science fiction narrative. Except for cases like William Golding himself, who used the setting in some of his novels or a marked sci-fi plot, or even Doris Lessing ...
The uprooting of Semprún's prolonged exile, due to the establishment of the Franco regime, gave Jorge Semprún a special libertarian imprint that would deepen even more when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald back in 1943, for belonging to the French partisans who fought to the invading army ...
For the profane and superficial, there is talk of the one who was the introducer of tantric sex in Spain. For connoisseurs, he was a brilliant writer and a free and controversial communicator (the one and the other come together given the fine skin we wear). For everyone, indistinctly: Fernando Sánchez Dragó. …