Labyrinth
Mexico City / 11.11.2023 06:18:58
A recent Nobel Prize winner; in Eastern Europe, a reflection on death; from its authors, a panoramic view of letters in Central America; a classic of the “American dream”; a reflection on the ancestors; essays on three mysteries of life… know the books he recommends Labyrinth this week
The deserter
Another great novel from the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. As illustrated by his entire work, the plot focuses on the impact of colonialism in East Africa: an English traveler falls in love with a resident of a ruined coastal hamlet, the origin of a lineage which we follow over three generations: from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s, in a London at the gates of youth rebellion. Love and the liberating force of fiction prevail over all things.
Abdulrazak Gurnah | Salamander | Spain, 2023 | 336 pages expand
We looked better in the dark
A novel of reunions, of settling accounts, of exploring the past. The protagonist and narrator visits her mother after years of separation. This fact not only triggers her memory but also serves to reflect on the inevitability of death. The communist regime in Czechoslovakia, political persecution and the dehumanizing reaches of totalitarianism add to the sorrows of exile to shape a story that holds one surprise after another.
Monika Zgustova | Gutenberg Galaxy | Spain, 2022 | 205 pages expand
From the center of America
Twenty-one writers, including the anthologist, make up this panoramic vision of letters in Central America. Their concerns move between certain collective coordinates (immigration, social inequality, violence, abuse) and awareness of another’s body and personal sexuality. They belong to several generations and do not hesitate to use local languages, which are generally marginalized. The Caribbean is also present.
Gloria Hernandez (anthologist) | Alfaguara | Mexico, 2023 | 278 pages expand
The Great Gatsby
Recognized as a masterpiece by Eliot, Gertrud Stein and Harold Bloom, Fitzgerald’s novel has not lost its privileged place. He knew it from the beginning: “I have written the best novel in the United States of America,” he wrote to his editor. The Little Treasures of Literature collection brings back into circulation the love story between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Jack Clayton and Baz Luhrmann have made two good film adaptations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald | RBA | Spain, 2023 | 238 pages expand
Manifesto: about how not to give up
Until 2019, when she won the Booker for Girl, Woman, Others, Evaristo was practically unknown. In this way she began fame, sales success, recognition. But what must have happened for her to get to where she is? These memoirs trace that ascending path, which begins in childhood and extends through her Nigerian origins to her foray into English theater. The stories of her ancestors play an important role in her development as a person and writer.
Bernardine Evaristo | AdN | Mexico, 2023 | 279 pages expand
a fish out of water
If, as Sánchez de Tagle points out, “ignoring is intoxication before the starry sky and willingness to face the great unknown,” then, ontologically, ignorance, more than wisdom, is what defines us. There is the Greek phrase “I only know that I know nothing.” Without giving conclusive answers, as Ricardo Sánchez Riancho notes on the back cover, the author investigates in this book of essays about three ignorances or mysteries: the Spirit, the Being and Death.
Gonzalo Sánchez de Tagle | Textophilia | Mexico, 2023 | 160 pages expand Read more:
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