Reviews of current novels
We admire the brilliant moment in which a man rises from his ashes to launch himself into the flight of his overflowing imagination. The conviction towards that encounter with the meaning of life has the justification of the epic. Even more so when the baggage of defeats piles up on one like ...
Every story needs two parts if it is to find a kind of synthesis, which is what it is about in any framework that ventures into the territory of emotional mimicry. It is not a question of highlighting this type of dual narratives in front of the first person. Because also ...
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 always a good time to recover the debut of one of the best current Spanish writers, Javier Marías. Because this is how the budding narrator is discovered with all the creative university ahead. A privileged rereading that tells us about the narrator's own voice. And also because the ...
Everything is susceptible to collapse. Even more so, life as one dodges the controlled explosions of age. Then there are the rubble, of which the important memories were never recovered in time. Because after all, no memory retains touch or voice with ...
Fine-tuning in the reading, currently a certain narrative harmony is discovered between Eloy Moreno and Albert Espinosa. Because both draw their novels with that stamp of the authentic around the stridency of living and their unsuspected final symphonies of the most fascinating. It would be something like that, while ...
It has always been said that here everyone writes their books. And eager that many are shown to find the writer on duty who is in charge of shaping their story, or waiting for the creative vein that can put black on white those experiences so transcendent to the eyes ...
It has been a long time since I have met Manuel Vilas so much on social media. Whims of the Facebook algorithm or rather default on my part. The point is that that of his hand-to-hand conversations with God via RRSS, when he called him for consultations, it seems to have been ...
Between the bucolic, the atavistic and the telluric. Cognetti's narrative is that firm footing in front of the overwhelming landscape that at the same time unites us with unfathomable forms of greatness. The unbearable lightness of the human being, which Kundera would say seems for moments eternity among ancient rocks that without ...
Escaping to Long Island is never far enough for next to nothing. You can be an advantage if you just try to de-stress after a tough week of battle in New York City; but it is a bad plan if it is an end of the world, an apocalypse or ...
In the post-covid era, with its pandemic life transformation, fleeting encounters and unforeseen trips seem like smaller utopias of interrelation with others of our species. A strange edge of the most septic suspicion keeps the mask away from any non-cohabiting interlocutor. And that's why a ...
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 ...