Existentialist novel reviews
In its inexhaustible debt with the XNUMXth century. A time increasingly loaded with great stories as we move away in time, Modiano leads us through a plot that recreates that nostalgic notion of the ephemeral. In the idea of the possible trace that we can, or…
Every tree has its fruit. From the apple tree with its ancient temptations, enough to throw us out of paradise, to the common fig tree with its uncommon fruits loaded with symbolism between the erotic and the sacred, depending on how you look at it and, above all, depending on who is looking at it... A story in the …
The incombustible Juan Carlos Onetti, together with Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano, make up a literary triumvirate from their common Uruguay to the Olympus of letters in Spanish. Because between the three they cover everything, any genre in prose, verse or on the stage. Although each one offers that ...
The story of life in its cyclical evolution of the seasons marks the capricious entrance and exit of the scene of each one. In the past, being born in winter was a challenge for survival. Today it is hardly an apparent anecdote that, given the efforts of Karl Ove Knausgard ...
The forgetfulness has the delicacy of forgetting even one's own reflection as a defense mechanism, where one declaims that sort of simulated soliloquies as thoughts that are transmitted to our reflection. That is the most difficult interpretation before our own inquisitive gaze. It may be that, a ...
The thing about the popular and even lyrical Triana neighborhood is not going. Although the title points to something similar. In fact, good old Pajtim Statovci might not even consider such a coincidence. Triana's heart points to something very different, to a mutable organ, to a being that, ...
It is true that it is difficult to find new voices that speak of love rooted in vitalism, with philosophy, with transcendence from the touch of the skin or even from orgasm. And that the matter is a whole narrative challenge where the writer or writer on duty can demonstrate, if not ...
As much as it disguises itself as a routine history, we already know that David Foenkinos is not delving into manners or inter-family relationships in search of secrets or dark sides. Because the world-renowned French author is more of a surgeon of the letters in shape and ...
No fully convinced pessimist reaches 84, as was the case with Cioran. I say this because of the determination to point out this author as a recalcitrant nihilist whose negativity and fear for life make up in form and substance a narrative parallel to the condemnation of living. ...
What better slightly pretentious title than this? Before you die, yes, just a few hours before listening to it, you will pick up your list of essential books and cross out the best seller by Belén Esteban that closes the reading circle of your life… (it was a joke, a macabre and bloody joke) It is not for less…
In Juan José Millás ingenuity is discovered already from the title of each new book. On this occasion, "Life at times" seems to refer us to the fragmentation of our time, to the changes of scenery between happiness and sadness, to the memories that make up that film that we can ...
To speak of Foenkinos is to approach one of the fundamental authors of the current narrative, with that generational change that points to the classic literature of a century from now, of the narrator who reflected the intrahistory of a XNUMXst century submerged between individualism and alienation as principle conflict ...