Reviews of humor novels
Humor and literature, complement and essence, resource and plot. Except in exceptional cases such as Christopher Moore's, humor is usually that added to promptly awaken us a smile. How can we not remember in this sense "The conspiracy of fools" by Kennedy Toole, one of the satires ...
What better title than this? Something light, light, sibilantly pretentious. Before dying, yes, better the fewer hours beforehand to listen to it. That's when you will take your list of essential books and cross out Belén Esteban's best-seller, the one that closes the reading circle of your life... (it was a joke, a macabre one...
Nothing like relativizing things... take a deep breath and create comfortable islands of time where you can soothe your conscience. No one can be as determined to disrupt your world as yourself. That is what a Björn Diemel is learning along the way, managed until the beginning of the novel by that…
If at the time we commented that the horror genre deals with something as essentially human as fear, when addressing the subject of humor literature we also connect with atavistic emotional essences. Surely before the fire arrived, it happened that one fine day a proto-man...
It could be that Ignatius Reilly was an ad hoc incarnation of Don Quixote. At least in his notion of the madman stuck in the scene of the fight against windmills made giant by the overflowing imagination. And without a doubt Barry Cohen, the protagonist of this story by Gary Shteyngart, has a lot…
You never know with this revolving doors for those who leave active politics. In Spain it often happens that former presidents, former ministers and other group of retired leaders end up occupying the most unsuspected offices in large companies. But Germany is really different. There …
It is was remains. The humor. And Jonas Jonasson knows a lot about that. His vision of the ridiculous places him at the antipodes of the trends of Swedish literature in particular and Nordic in general. And acting as a counterpoint, navigating against the current also has its rewards at times ... In this ...
Crapulas untimely. The typical effect between Mr Hyde and Dorian Gray that anyone over 40 years of age can suffer when they return to the alcoholic splendors of the night after having missed a few years of raising children, of Sunday hobbies never suspected before reaching ...
Of the seven days in which God created the world, I would stay with the one that our maker lay on the grass to contemplate the work. I suppose it would be a hangover Saturday or Sunday, I no longer remember. They will explain it here ... But they are one thing ...
The famous writer (and in his dead moments pianist) Joseph Gelinek returns once more from his nineteenth century and this time uses his pseudonym Máximo Pradera to offer us a novel about the splitting of personality and those messes in which one confuses, for example to ...
It is not always easy to read a humorous novel. Because people assume that a guy who reads a book is delving into brainy essays or gripped by the tension of the novel plot of the day. So laughing while reading quickly invites you to think of some guy ...
The overflowing imagination of Andrei Kurkov, the children's literature writer, runs amok in this novel, although for adults, strangely disguised as a lysergic surrealism bordering on the childlike. Deep down, a trip to a children's fable has the same mind-boggling undertone as Viktor's encounter with ...