Story books
Every great short story writer never ends up living in that place of short stories, a universe limited in space but conducive to the most endless presentations. Another great young author today, comparable to Elvira Navarro, such as Samanta Schweblin from Argentina, knows this well. In this new book by ...
In 1996 Chuck Palahniuk wrote that great cult book "Fight Club." And shortly afterwards the cult became a mass phenomenon with the film in which Brad Pitt and Edward Norton split their faces in the most unexpected places, the result of a bipolarity that ...
The worst thing about being a creator out of time is usually that the most fervent reception of the public occurs, precisely, when one is already raising mallow. The legend of Lucía Berlin as the cursed writer, built from family uprooting and consolidated from her stormy emotional life, grew ...
There are few writers who have the incomparable virtue of filling the most profound ideas with brilliant symbols and images that link the deepest ideas like light literary goldsmith. Manuel Rivas is one of them. And it often happens that these authors give themselves fruitfully to the story even more than to the novel. I know …
If recently I spoke of the Argentine Samanta Schweblin as one of the great references of the modern story, this time we climbed thousands of kilometers in the American continent to meet the American Carmen María Machado. And at both ends of the largest of the continents we enjoy two ...
I recently read about the ending of Ernest Hemingway. The passage of time allows us to delve into the most lurid details of the myth, including his suicide. According to the testimony of someone close, the author got up one morning, put on his red robe as the emperor of his house, rescued from his ...
Literature is something like magic when the concise is capable of addressing everything, when language, a fundamental intellectual tool, manages to decipher the symbolic and approach metalanguage as a single voice in the tower of Babel of the world. A perfect balance between substance and form, full control ...
Looking for a Tom Hanks book has a lot of movie interest. I don't know, it's like you buy this storybook waiting for its first page to open with the scent of chocolate from Forrest Gump's box of chocolates; or with the concern of facing a reading ...
To write a book of stories under the premise of a life sentence behind the back must offer a strange feeling. Curtis Dawkins, a confessed murderer, would not write this book for anyone, he would not claim fame and glory because he knows that he will never leave the prison walls in ...
Fiction can be written about the heaviest matters of the soul, about all those contradictions that our existence contains, about guilt and regrets, about the feeling of defeat regarding the time that escapes. But you have to know how to do it. The truth is that, in this case, nature ...
Only the greatest ones like Murakami can afford to launch special editions such as this illustrated story: The Birthday Girl. The illustrated books have a vindictive aspect in favor of the book in its traditional paper format in addition to many other contributions. This novel too ...
Sergio Ramírez's novels give a good example of the author's knowledge about Latin American vicissitudes. His journey through various neighboring countries gave him that point of knowledge steeped in American reality. Uniting the political will of this author and his sensitivity towards narrative we always find ...