The 3 best books by the singular Boris Izaguirre

That under the character sometimes histrionic and always surprising de Boris Izaguirre A person of great sensitivity was hiding and hiding is something that was sensed even from that taste for ostentation and the overacting of the television monster.

Your condition of finalist for the Planet award in 2007 came to ratify this idea of ​​the character and the person as a romantic duality, in tune with other writers who came from television such as the minister of brevity Maxi Huerta Or until Isabel San Sebastian.

Then come the books and their different genres that welcome these authors who came from more accessible platforms but that definitely ratify a value that keeps them there, in a literary career far beyond taking advantage of the media pull.

In the particular case of Boris Izaguirre, literature is also that point of creative transformation. Although his origins as a soap opera scriptwriter were consistent with the pattern of plot simplicity necessary for a serial, the maturation of his novels brings a new, more complex and dramatic air to that love considered as the leitmotif of his fiction bibliography.

Beyond the novel, Boris Izaguirre has also written essays or research books of a social and cultural nature.

Top 3 recommended books by Boris Izaguirre

Diamond Villa

A novel with an aftertaste of María Dueñas from El tiempo entre costuras. Although the two novels pose very different plots, the temporal settings seem to bring these two stories together on either side of the Atlantic.

Because in both cases there is adversity as nemesis of the times and of the Spanish and Venezuelan political destinies ... In Villa Diamante we accompany the sisters Irene and Ana on their tortuous path in which only the horizon of a house that sublime all their pains, guilt and miseries end up standing as the ultimate goal of each that each of us build within us.

Villa Diamante becomes a new house of the spirits that points towards the sublimation of all tragedy, always latent even in moments of prosperity.

Diamond Villa

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It is worth approaching this fictionalized life of the character made person. The times when Boris Izaguirre had to outlive himself.

Boris Izaguirre's character itself is made up of that miscellany of the authentic, the shameless, the humorous and the profound when he plays. In this book we find the reasons for the mixture, for the configuration of the person and the character, which, in such a special way, makes a whole without folds even in the natural contradictions of the human being.

Deep down, Boris knows that he was lucky to be born in the cradle he was born with. More than anything because, compared to what many others might think at the time, his homosexuality came as standard, nothing to do with the obtuse idea that freed parents can lead to a child of minority sexuality (or something like that, God knows what that kind of thinking minds will harbor about nature and the destinies of others ...)

Boris tells us about them, about their parents. Belén, the famous dancer and Rodolfo, filmmaker. Thanks to them, his life is made up of the brightness of celluloid and the spotlights on the stage ... How can he not see the world as that tragicomedy in which living is a role to be interpreted and dignified?

But in the face of the obtuse minds mentioned above, the truth is that especially his mother Belén had to act as that first defensive bulwark against a world determined to point out differences to treat them as odious anomalies in its sickly ideraries.

Beyond his experiences so closely linked to his parents, Boris also tells us about his first steps in everything, in love and sex, with unfortunate memories included; of his stage as editor and of his arrival in Spain; of his splendid time on television while outlining his assault on literature; of many experiences and impressions about that passionate world that Boris harbors in his simple gaze.

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And suddenly it was yesterday

Uniting Cuba and literature lately evokes me that dirty realism of Peter John Gutierrez or Thomas Arranz. So it is always good to turn the focus to enjoy another type of history about the island par excellence. In principle, that particular idiosyncrasy of the happy survival of Cuba continues to form a tangle that traps any plot built in the environment. And Boris Izaguirre does not renounce it.

But the heart of the story is about something else. Between these pages we are getting to know Efraín and Óvalo, two guys united by great ideas, adapted and resolved in the Cuban lifestyle but above all determined to carry out their film project. Between them appears Aurora. And as its name suggests, an intense new dawn changes everything from then on ...

And suddenly it was yesterday
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