With the Nadal award 2019 under his arm, the Argentine mathematician with a vocation as a writer Guillermo Martinez he achieved one of his greatest achievements in a world of narrative that initially sounded like a profane world for someone academically trained between whole numbers and fractions of the world.
But it is clear that imagining and writing is fertile ground for every mind that raises concerns and seeks answers between disparate concepts such as: logarithms, heartbreak, derivatives, metaphors or algebra. Mysteries here and there made exotic cocktails.
Of course your PhD in Logic, with what entails a matter that balances all process of mental deduction in the numerical or in the philosophical, it has an easy transfer to narrative frameworks that enhance the deductive aspect of a good police plot.
So I found the link between the mathematician and the writer that comes to be Guillermo Martinez, it only remains to enter a work that, beyond the Nadal award, had already been forming a consistent bibliography between individual books, stories, articles and even film adaptations of some of his works.
Top 3 recommended books by Guillermo MartĂnez
The last time
On the menu of literature, antagonistic flavors have a perfect place in the same dish. Of course, its acceptance and final good taste depends on the chef on duty. Guillermo MartĂnez invites us to taste a plot full of metaliterary invitations about the craft of writing itself and therefore about the nature of the word and even language. Meanwhile, very different aromas energize the core of the story towards more novelistic aspects in itself. The result is a compelling dish with double layers of juicy readings.
Barcelona, ​​nineties. A., a renowned Argentine writer, confined to his home due to a degenerative disease, has put an end to his latest novel and fears that he will not see it published. Convinced that his fame is due to a misunderstanding about his work, which everyone reads in the wrong way, he decides to summon a young critic through his powerful literary agent, hoping that this "last time" someone will manage to read it in English. the correct key.
Merton, of impeccable intellectual honesty, travels from Buenos Aires to undertake this unusual assignment, but what he does not imagine is that he will be the victim of a double love attraction. Yet he goes far enough into the manuscript to catch a glimpse of an extraordinary revelation. Will he find that mysterious key? Or are the clues just a mirage of the assignment, the closeness of death and the enveloping atmosphere of the house?
Guillermo MartĂnez captivates us with a literary intrigue about the ambiguity of truth. A.'s torment for being an understood writer, sex in a philosophical way and winks at how authors consecrate themselves are masterfully filtered through fine black humor.
The Oxford crimes
What makes a movie out of a book read has something special about it. Nothing you see on the big screen comes close to what you imagined, but the mix is ​​rewarding.
To the point that after time and evoking scenes or characters, the deception is served in a magical process by which you no longer know where the scene of the movie or the scene of your imagination begins.
And also, what the hell, if a book is good and you like it, then it remains as my favorite of this author. I think I am not mistaken much if I also risk saying that it will also be one of the works that most convinces the author in this compendium between its two aspects, literary and mathematical.
Because the team of young Martin and Seldom towards the discovery of crime in the heart of Oxford and with a powerful mathematical component as its foundation evokes a new adventure of Sherlock Holmes under the prism of this author who enriches the plot with his knowledge of mathematical theories that fit in the knot like a sinister game of dice towards a masterfully resolved final game, closed, as it should be for a worthy mathematician.
Alice's crimes
Perhaps the trick is this. Guillermo MartĂnez faced the ghosts of his work The Oxford Crimes with enough years of difference between one writing and another so that the fear of the blank page did not end up exhausting him.
And I say that perhaps it is the trick because many other authors have tried to make second parts or sequels, or develop stories similar to some of their great works and they have ended up shipwrecking, but Guillermo has been patient, he has written several more books in the meantime between one work and another. And so it has been a new story that rescues characters, setting and mysterious plot around mathematics to make us vibrate with a new enigma full of deaths, great mysteries, doubts, twists, narrative tension and a tremendous ending. Seldom is once again that mixed alter ego of Guillermo de Baskerville and Sherlock Holmes.
Mathematics once again plays with literary works of great weight to collect in its fascinating melting pot highly dynamic impressions together with an intellectual residue that end up composing an unforgettable work.
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The slow death of Luciana B
After writing The Oxford Crimes, Guillermo Martinez gave himself to other things, with that wise decision to let the possible ramifications of his great work rest.
This novel came after some brilliant interim rehearsal, and that new leap into fiction gave us a very different story. Because Luciana's life unfolds into a sum of memories about her tragic passage through the world. Something makes her think that more than an unfortunate fate, a black hand acts against her. His time with the writer Kloster now seems like a vague memory that he would rather like to forget. And yet something of his black but marries the sinister figure of a Kloster about which the most abominable doubts are opening.
He may have claimed the lives of his loved ones. And she may have her final revenge on herself. Time is running out and Luciana must catch up with a destructive mind to find a way out.
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