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Reseña: Spiderman, Poder y Responsabilidad (2001-2002) Bill Jemas, Brian M. Bendis, Mark Bagley, Art Thibert, Steve Buccellato, Marie Javins
Mi Reseña en un Tweet:
Me lo compré solo porque estaba barato: la edición es hermosa y la calidad de impresión es espectacular Es su historia de origen con detalles raros (me copó su tía May) Fui juntando momentos homoeróticos o diseños particulares (ese Green Goblin mamadísimo es certainly a choice)
Mi Reseña Completa:
Este es el primer tomo de la colección Marvel Ultimate de (otra vez) Editorial Salvat. Por supuesto, para enganchar a los coleccionistas, el primero es más barato y como parecían ser historias que comenzaban y arrancaban en un miso tomo, lo compré (también el segundo, de X-Men, pero no creo comprar más).
La presentación es fantástica: tapa dura, con detalles en dorado y acabado brillante; páginas completas a todo color en papel couché brillo. Los fascículos que componen el tomo están separados por las portadas originales y a veces páginas con diseño geométrico, complementan bien el forro interno de la portada.
En este primer tomo, se recopila la historia de origen del Spiderman de Peter Parker para el universo Ultimate (Ultimate Spider-Man #1 a #13 y 1/2), un reinicio que hicieron a comienzos del nuevo milenio para que le fuera más fácil a las nuevas generaciones poder arrancar a leer cómics de Marvel, que habían acumulado un gran catálogo de lectura obligatoria para poder entender bien qué estaba pasando. Quizás también buscaban hacerlo más "relatable":
Con trama de Bill Jemas, la historia destaca, y no siempre en un buen sentido, por decisiones raras sobre los personajes a involucrar en las primeras semanas de Peter como Spiderman. La que más me llamó la atención fue el Green Goblin:
Después aparecen también Kingpin, Electro y Iron Fist (más como un cameo el último, pero igual), de los que solo el segundo se me hizo un personaje típico de Spiderman.
No puedo juzgar la historia en el vacío porque es una historia que ya vi varias veces: el origen de Spider-Man, la muerte del tío Ben, los primeros pasos como héroe, su relación con la tía May y con MJ. Agradezco los momentos de fan-service y homoerotismo.
Las ilustraciones me gustaron, y el trabajo de los coloristas está bien logrado.
6.5/10.
Mis otras lecturas del 2023.
Reseña: El Mago Merlin en la Torre Oscura, Álvaro Marcos
Mi Reseña en un Tweet:
Sigo enamorado de la prosa presente en esta colección Nunca quise tanto viajar en el tiempo como ahora, queriendo conocer la época del ciclo arturiano Las ediciones y apéndices me encantan Lástima hayan fragmentado la historia en tantos fascículos
Reseña Completa:
Este libro es parte de la misma colección que "El Mago Merlín y el Poder del Dragón", funcionando además como continuación directa. En esta oportunidad, Merlín aparece mucho más frío y decisivo, obrando según las visiones y presagios que se le presentan para restaurar a los herederos legítimos en el trono de Lornes.
Reúne cuatro cuentos alternando entre las perspectivas de Merlín y Aulus, el consejero algo siniestro de Vortigern, el traidor y usurpador.
Lo que más me sigue maravillando de estos libros y recopilaciones de los mitos del ciclo arturiano es la cuidada prosa con la que narra este mundo fantástico de los antiguos dioses. Tiene metáforas bien pensadas, los verbos y adjetivos justos, bien apropiados para transmitir la sensación exacta de los personajes: sea el pavor de Aulus ante la decadencia de su estrella pese a sus trampas, sea la cólera fría de Vortigern y la sádica violencia de su venganza, o bien la impasible frialdad con la que maniobra Merlín entre ambos.
Espero encontrar fácilmente el siguiente libro en la narración del origen de Merlín y el ascenso de Uther y Pendragon al trono, me gusta mucho esta historia y la narrativa más general de Britannia.
Como dato de color, mencionan y describen brevemente a Avalon, una isla que también me dio curiosidad de conocer más en profundidad ahora como tierra de los antiguos dioses.
Muy buen libro, lástima hayan fragmentado tanto la historia en distintos fascículos.
Una cita que me gustó:
— Se te atribuyen toda suerte de prodigios en aquellas comarcas. Traer la lluvia que puso fin a la sequía, impedir que ardieran unas brujas... «Hijo del diablo», te llaman. ¿Es cierto cuanto se cuenta? — La gente habla mucho —dijo Merlín por toda respuesta.
8.5/10.
Mis otras lecturas de 2023.
Book Review: The Suicides Club, Robert Louis Stevenson.
To surprise of my forgetful memory, I had already read this short novel, but given that I didn't quite remember the specific details of it, I took great pleasure in reading it again.
The plot is quite simple, really: prince Frorizel of Bohemia is a man quite brave but easily bored, always on the hunt of new adventures. Fortune puts him on the path of a stranger acting extravagantly on the streets of London, gifting people cream cakes or eating them if they refuse it. When asked about his behaviour in private, the man reveals to the prince and his confidant, colonel Geraldine, that he's a member of a private and very secret club, the Suicides Club.
The Club is exactly that: a group of men who want to die but for one reason or another can't muster the will to take their own lives. But the real kick is how they decide who dies next and how they solve the problem of the suicide: homicide at the hands of a fellow member of the club.
I don't want to spoil any further the story, so I will just give a general overview of the structure and what I liked.
This short novel is divided in three chapters, each one from the perspective of a new character. The first, that of Florizel. The other two return eventually to the storyline of the prince, but succeed somehow into generating confussion in the reader about where the story wants to go or why it changed so drastically its perspective.
Given the collection this book is part of, I am a little puzzled at why would someone consider it a Crime and Mystery novel, at least in the traditional sense associated with Sherlock Holmes and Herculè Poirot.
Even more so considering this particular edition of the novel includes another short one: "The Misadventures of John Nicholson". I found it a very funny story on itself, but it stumbled like its main character through the plot without much thought or point to it.
I include the first chapter because it has a stellar hook for a reader, and a translation below:
"John Varey Nicholson — one has to admit it — was what one could call a stupid man; nonetheless, men much stupider than our friend sit today at the Parliament [...] [John was] a creature totally abandoned by the Gods."
Overall, it was a pleasant and rather quick read, but not one I'll think much about in the future.
Again, I apologize for any crude error in my writing, I'm trying to practice more my English skills and this proves a helpful challenge.
My other readings of 2023.
Book Review: The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
My review in a Tweet:
"Would men turn evil if they were free from society?" is a frequent question in fiction and phylosophy in general, and while it's present in this book, it has been exaggerated on literary analysis that followed it. Overall, an interesting read with a very dull middle part.
Complete Review:
I decided to pause my other readings to dive into special thematic books for Halloween, while also complementing the nights I watch movie classics. So, for the first special review, I chose "The Invisible Man", by Herbert George Wells.
Years ago, I read "The Time Machine" by the same author, and it left a good impression of his writing skills. This time, while it wasn't bad, I'd say it left me a little unimpressed. The prose and descriptions, like the dialogues, were precise and well written but a bit dense. Wells would go over too many details, and although it's probably a common product of its time, it lacks a more deep or meaningful story.
The book it's divided in chapters, but I think the plot it's separated in four parts:
The arrival of the Invisible Man to a small town, his secret protected by the costume he wears.
The reveal of the secret and the following chaos.
The origin of the Invisible Man, told by himself to an old friend he runs into.
The manhunt of the Invisible Man.
The first part it's quite interesting as a reader, because we know what his secret is, so it's fun to read the guesses of the townspeople and the "mysterious events" that surround the stranger.
The second part is also fun, because of the paranoia and desbelief that the reveal of the Invisible Man provokes.
This third part, his backstory, the one I was most eager to read about (driven by the curiosity of getting to know how would the author explain or justify Griffins' invisibility) turned out to be so dull and slow. The proccess is a bit uninteresting (applying the refracting properties of an object to another thanks to a machine barely described), but the tedious first days of Griffin as an invisible man and his laments for all the unfortunate stuff that happens to him because no one can notice him is so... unsufferable. Specially because H.G. Wells decides to describe a lot the most boring stuff. We barely get to see a truly evil Invisible Man.
He does tell to his old friend that he needs an accomplice to declare his Reign of Terror, but by the time we reach this point, we have 10% or 15% of the book left, so the last part is mostly his friends saying No to him and helping the local police capture him (because the narration of his first days invisible gave him the information he needed). Griffin kills a man and injuries badly a few more men, but besides that and stealing money and food, he's no more evil than any person left behind by society.
So maybe, another possible interpretation to this story is not "Do men turn evil when free from society's watchful eye?" but rather "Men will do what they must to survive in a society that won't notice (help) them". Then, maybe, after a life like that, they will grow resentful and bitter like Griffin.
Score: 6.5/10.
My other 2023 readings.
Since we are nearing the end of the year, I want to start organizing my readings for 2024. I'll post one more review for sure for a comic book I read last week, and maybe two more from books I'm finishing this week.
(My three last books of the year probably)
So, my goals for next year are both broaden the type of books I read and practice more reading in foreign languages.
Send me a book you like and I'll consider it for my 2024 readings.
You get a prize if you also tell me why you like it (?
Book Review: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
My Review in a Tweet:
I haven't been this enraptured, this mesmerized, this captivated by a book in years, and I don't say that lightly. It's great on every aspect you could think of, and then some other you couldn't even conjure. Can't believe I neglected it for so long. Highly recommended if you like fantasty of any kind.
My Full Review:
I had it sitting on my bookshelves for months before I decided to start reading this book. It felt menacing, despite it being the pocket edition. The sheer volume, the brickness of it felt like a challenge I hadn't the courage to face.
But once I did, I realized the real danger was being unable to let it go: I was prisoner of the author, being held by his marvelous ability to thread the story of Kvothe in seamless chapters, that natural the flow of the story felt, you couldn't even tell where he jumped from present to past and back.
The vivid images still dance in my mind hours after I finished reading the book. I rushed past the other reviews I had pending so I could write this one because I neded to talk about it. My copy of the book was a present from a friend so I texted her inmediately, but that didn't suffice, I had to write longer than all caps screaming to each other.
The rich world the author builds feels vast and mysterious, with a lot of hidden things lurking just beneaht the surface waiting for both the writer and the reader to discover them. I really hope (haven't looked it up yet) that there are books in the vein of the Silmarillion and Tom Bombadil where the myths and tales of this universe are further expanded.
The prose of Rothfuss is so elegant, filled with clever descriptions and unexpected analogies that not even the most fictitious elements of his story remain ungraspable to the reader.
The characters are so diverse and interesting: each and every one of them leaves a perdurable memory, no matter how brief and casual their impact and presence on the story is.
Kvothe is our main character, but he gets to be a narrator of his own story whenever we dive into his past, becoming a somewhat unreliable narrator. The whole book feels like that: we as readers submerging in the story narrated by Kvothe himself, gasping for air during the interlusions where the omniscient narrator takes the job back to move the story in the present time.
A wonderful work of worldbuilding, characterization and narration only hindered by the bittersweet taste of finishing the book eager for more. I hope to get my hands on the sequel soon, but I probably should let this world rest a little before diving in it again.
9/10.
My other 2023 Readings.
Book Review: Historias de Cronopios y de Famas, Julio Cortázar
My Review in a Tweet:
Imagine you get a box filled with puzzle pieces, but they are all from different puzzles. You may see a familiar figure here, another face there, but no matter how you try to arrange the pieces together, you are sure it's not the meant image. Reading this book is like that.
My Full Review:
I became aware yesterday of my inappropriate lack of Argentinean authors in my reading list this year, and trying to mend that a little, I found this little book in a bookshelf while visiting my parents for the holidays.
While quite short, this book reminded me how much I ignore. I felt in a clear cultural disadvantage, where Cortázar (who some people may call the greatest Argentinean author) was playing a joke at my expense. I don't say this negatively.
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas is a collection of short stories, vague poems and... Nonsense. That's when the ignorance I felt started to creep in. I'm not sure of the exact literary current Cortázar belongs to, but this book read to me like an absurdist ramble without crossing over to dadaism.
I tend to believe that there are some clear themes of social and economic classes coating the short stories of the Cronopios, the Famas and the Hopes: they work as fictional and bizarre versions of Argentina's middle-to-low, high and (cultural) elite class respectively (I'm not sure about the Hopes). Cronopios are despised and treated condescendingly by the Famas, mocking their behavior and traditions, all too jovial and effusive and lazy; the Famas think too high of themselves and tend to use and abuse the other two; the Hopes seem to be trapped in an academic gasp, stunned by the lack of refinement of the Cronopios.
Even the short stories not directly related to the Cronopios and Famas act as a display of Argentina's idiosyncrasy, helped by the explicit mention of some elements, some places of this country (and more specifically, from Gran Buenos Aires).
But you have to remember that none of the stories really make sense. They are almost poetical, oneirical, nearing the realm of magical realism, very popular in Latin America.
The narration and writing themselves demand a lot of the reader's attention and time, forcing them to engage with the book to find some sense.
Again, I say all of this in a positive light: it's a challenging book in almost a literal sense, it presents itself innocently, like a bunch of nonsense, but soon you start to feel like there's something more underneath, like if under this outer coat of surrealistic and abstract tales laid a more tangible and grounded coat of the same color, merely a different tone but same color nonetheless.
I'm not sure how well this book would be received by non-argentinian or non-spanish speaking persons, but it's a good book anyways.
7,5/10.
My Other 2023 Readings.
Book Review: El Juguete Rabioso, Roberto Arlt
My Review in a Tweet:
It felt like reading The Catcher in the Rye but from Argentina, tinged with the economic and social issues of the early 20th century. Silvio Astier is a boy too old to be called a man and a man too young to be called a boy (no mistake made there).
My Full Review:
I read this book because of a sack of small reasons: it was short, I was one book shy from 30 in 2023, I wanted another argentinean author on my list and I had a physical copy of it.
El Juguete Rabioso (literally: The Rabid Toy) is the first novel of Roberto Arlt and, according to the copy I read, one of the founding books of the modern novel in our country. Commonly given as a mandatory reading in high school, I often saw this book here and there, postponing it indefinitively.
Now that I have finally read it, I think Arlt's place in our literary pantheon of writers is rightfully earned. The short novel is a quick glimpse into the life of Silvio Drodman Astier, a poor young boy from Buenos Aires, living in Floresta (at least from the second part on), fighting to stay out of the street and help his mother and sister.
The problem is, Silvio is too smart, too culturally cultivated for any of the jobs he can get as a poor boy from Floresta. He struggles with a feeling of entitlement to a better life in contrast with a sense of defeat while facing the circunstances he lives in.
The novel is carefully written, with a mix of refined language and old local slang that reflects on the dual nature of the character: a street rat at worst, a curious and smart young man at best.
His inner monologues are some of the best and most interesting parts, as his feelings of guilt, resentment and fear clash against each other.
The secondary characters function as common figures of Argentina's society from the early 20th century, when inmigration and poverty were high and people struggled to stay afloat. Their jobs, their cultural background, their relationships with one another highlight Silvio's own characteristics.
7/10.
My Other 2023 Readings.
Book Review: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
My Review in a Tweet:
It feels like cheating when you point out the similarities between two works then the author himself mentions a character by name, but this book truly feels like a Lewis Carroll or even James M. Barrie story. Lots of suspension of disbelief tho.
My Full Review:
I truly dislike saying this about a book, but I have finally finished reading "Neverwhere". There are a couple of reasons why it took me so long, but the main one is the constant and intentional nonsense you are forced to deal with.
The biggest responsible for that is the worldbuilding (or the lack of it): Gaiman cheats when he describes the "Londres de Abajo" (I'm guessing he named it the "Under London" in English or something like that?) as this mirror reality under London (not very subtle) that just happens to have anything the plot needs and works with simple and straightforward rules, the most important one being the owing of favors. The randomness of the characters and locations they visit constantly throws you off.
In favor of the novel, I did like the "clasic fairy tale" feeling of it, where our protagonists meet some perilous tests, fierce foes and unexpected allies. All of these also had a certain "greek myth" or "folk tale" nature to them, like the Beast of the Labyrinth or the Huntress and the Warrior.
The characters are very likeable, but they fall a little short in being fully developed or having truly great moments for themselves. "This thing happens, then this other thing happens and we are done", the characters don't seem to notice any of it or truly react to the events around them, they just stroll through the plot. Only in the ending I felt like they were experiencing real consequences of the events in the story.
It was a nice enough reading, but I don't know if I would recommend it, except maybe for teenagers. I remain curious for the rest of Gaiman's works, specially "American Gods", "Good Omens", and finishing "Sandman" (of which I read the first two volumes).
5.5/10.
My Other 2024 Readings.
Book Review: Three Blind Mice, Agatha Christie
My Review in a Tweet:
Agatha Christie's stories are a little cheesy, but despite that, they remain charming and puzzling, encouraging the reader to decipher for himself who's the culprit. This book in particular reunites delightful investigators: Poirot, Mrs Marple, Harley Quin and Sergeant Trotter.
My Full Review:
This book is another "first" for me, as my only contact with Agatha Christie's works was through the movie adaptations with Kenneth Branagh as the famous detective Hercule Poirot.
Imagine my delighted surprise when I realized the first story on this book was no other than the play in "See How They Run" (2022), another wonderful and funny whodunnit.
Since I'm not british, I don't know the tune for "Three Blind Mice", but the author was able to communicate the silliness of the murderer and the unnerving nature of all children lullabies, no matter where they are from.
The misteries in the book rely heavily on the dialogues and interviews from the investigator to the suspects, leaving descriptions of characters and places very short and a little dry.
The mysteries themselves are quite entertaining, only a couple of them were "predictable" (which I can tell if it is a good point for Agatha, for laying out the clues for the reader, or for me, being "smart enough" to solve the mystery before the reveal). Some of them felt a little rushed or solved out of nowhere, but those were only a few.
This is what I would call a nice summer reading: short stories, easy to pick up and to put down once you finish a mystery, engaging and entertaining.
8/10
My Other 2024 Readings.
Book Review: Selección de poemas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
My Review in a Tweet:
I can't be impartial with Bécquer, he's a central poet in one of the canon events of my life (my first love). Luckily, I could still enjoy his Rhymes, and I read for the first time his Literary Letters and his Legends (which some read like horror stories).
My Full Review:
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is probably the first poet I read attentively, and I have loved him ever since I read his Rhymes for the first time. I gifted my copy because I was young and innocent, so I had to buy this book again.
Fortunately, this anthology includes not only his Rhymes, which I read again with great pleasure, but also his Literary Letters to a Woman and his Legends (each marked with a spanish city or theme).
Becquer fits perfectly in this romantic idea of poets, a brilliant and tortured genius, whose poems fill an intrincated metric and respect the rhyme while doing so. His themes also reflect this pinning, this painful way of experimenting romantic feelings, of tragic love.
The Literary Letters and the Symphonic Introduction of his Rhymes are wonderful works of poetic prose, blooming with beautiful allegories and metaphors, exuding such a love for Poetry itself you find yourself tempted to pick up a pen and follow in vain the steps of this bard.
I can't say much more other than restating my love for this author and his works: Becquer remains a core author of my taste in poetry in particular and literature in general.
My other 2024 readings.
Book Review: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Volume IV)
My Review in a Tweet:
Probably the weakest I've read so far, this time the author decides to waddle in the themes of AI, self-replicating machines, time paradoxes and the Ever Looming Threat of the Unkown. Some spare gems but most tales are forgettable.
My Full Review:
I don't have much to add or say about Philip K Dick's short stories that I haven't said about the previous three volumes, so I'll just leave my ranking of the stories of this tome:
Captive Market: the ultime capitalist dystopia.
The Minority Report: a wholly different story from the movie they made afterwards, I like the author's approach a lot better.
The Mold of Yancy: I feel this could be the future of political discussion in a world of AI and stronger soft power of the nations.
Explorers We: this felt very Bradburyan, I really liked it.
If There Were No Benny Cemoli: fake news and manipulation in the year of the Lord 1963 (?
Autofac
The Unreconstructed M
Oh, to Be a Blobel!
Recall Mechanism
War Game
Orpheus with Clay Feet
Novelty Act
Waterspider
What the Dead Men Say: I skipped this one actually because it was very boring.
Service Call
Stand-by
What'll We Do with Ragland Park?
The Days of Perky Pat
Aside from that, I'd say this volume is a
5.5/10.
My other 2024 readings.
Well, it's gonna take me forever to post all the pending book reviews I have, so I'll add the pics with the quote I liked and once I feel like revisiting them, I'll complete them with my opinion
Book Review: Poemas Esenciales, Rubén Darío
My Favorite Poem of the book:
"Románticos somos... ¿Quién que Es, no es romántico? Aquel que no sienta ni amor ni dolor, aquel que no sepa de beso y de cántico que se ahorque de un pino: será lo mejor"
My Full Review:
Pending review, I promise I'll revisit because I love Ruben Dario's works.
My Other 2024 Readings.
Book Review: Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
My favorite quote of the book:
"—[...] le ruego encarecidamente, le suplico que [...] ¡No abra su corazón al mal! [...] Porque, si lo hace, el mal vendrá... Sí, con toda seguridad, vendrá. Entrará en su corazón, establecerá en él su morada y, a los pocos instantes, no habrá fuerza humana que lo desaloje..." ~Hercule Poirot
My Full Review:
Pending review, I will surely revisit once I'm done with all of the books from AC that I bought.
My Other 2024 Readings.
Book Review: Poemas Esenciales, Miguel Hernández
My favorite poem of the book:
Casida del Sediento Aroma del desierto soy: desierto de sed. Oasis es tu boca donde no he de beber Boca: oasis abierto a todas las arenas del desierto. Húmedo punto en medio de un desierto abrasador, el de tu cuerpo, el tuyo, que nunca es de los dos Cuerpo, pozo cerrado a quien la sed y el sol han calcinado.
My Full Review:
Pending review, I'll revisit because I need to complain about him.
My Other 2024 Readngs.
Book Review: La Gallina degollada y otros cuentos, Horacio Quiroga
My favorite quote of the book:
"... y, como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto más infames fueran los agravios."
My Full Review:
Pending review, I need to yap about this author.
My Other 2024 Readings.
Book Review: El perseguidor y otros cuentos, Julio Cortázar
My favorite quote:
"Que la música salve por lo menos el resto de la noche, y cumpla a fondo una de sus peores misiones, la de ponernos un buen biombo delante del espejo, borrarnos del mapa durante un par de horas."
Pending review, I will for sure come back to this one.
My Other 2024 Readings
Book Review: La Cautiva, El Matadero y otros escritos, Esteban Echeverría
My favorite quote:
"Since men have no real value to us in politics, but as agents to realize or generate social ideas, we will frankly confess that we wish we saw all those favored by Fortune dethroned at last; we can't conceive progress at all for our nation, if not by having the best and most capable take the initiative of thought and social action, and by best and most capable we mean those who are expression of the highest of virtues, and of the highest intelligence in the country."
This small book includes three of Evecherría's most renowed works, so I'll make a quick comment about each:
La Cautiva (The Captive)
This poems narrates the final days of a young woman, captured by the "indios", from where she manages to escape with her husband, badly injured from the fight. They profess a deep and passionate love for each other, but it's the woman who will be taking center stage while trying to keep her man from death and the dangers of the argentinean desert. It's a very beautifully written poem, enhancening the small figure of that woman in the hot lands dominated by the "savages", characterizing her as a force of nature, of willing to live despite it all, of profound love.
El Matadero (The Slaughterhouse)
This one is a short story, set in one of the most violent times of our "civil war" history: unitarios against federales. The story begins actually with a severe rain that swamped Buenos Aires, making everyone suddenly very anxious in a religious and political sense. But the worst part was that the flood impeded the arrival of several cows to the city's slaughterhouse. When the streets and roads finally allow the transport of the first lot of cows, chaos invades the zone, as one bull has infiltrated the group and is running rampant through the city. It is finally taken down by a "glorious unitario". Parallel to the felled bull, a federal appears in town, refusing to wear the symbols of the unitarios, for which he's punished to death. The valiant defiance of the federal mirrors the violent fight for survival of the bull, but both are just slaughtered for being out of place. The story itself is quite simple and the analogies it presents are easy to understand, but Echverrria writes with such a joyful and witty style, making fun of both sides and the people from his time that his work becomes almost satyrical of the Buenos Aires of the 19th century. I really liked it
Reflexiones
This was a non-fiction section of the book, regarding the political views of Esteban Echeverria. I won't dwelve much into it because it's mostly related to Argentina at the time, but I will highlight the author's knowledge of the academic and literary enviroment of his time.
My other 2024 readings.
Book Review: And then there were none, Agatha Christie
My favorite quote of the book:
I longed to commit such a mysterious crime, no one would be able to solve it. But now I realize that art is not enough for the artists, they wish the glory too. So do I, I must confess humbly, I feel the human wish of letting my peers know of my wit.
Pending review, I'll revisit eventualy, it's a quite fascinating novel, catching your attention from the prologue already.
My other 2024 readings