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📚 My 2024 Readings 📚
Hello again! I hope that, between the more lewd content you can find on my blog, you can also enjoy some book reviews. This year, I plan to diversify my readings list and pick some more culturally significant books from time to time.
January
Alberti, Rafael. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat, 2022.
Storni, Alfonsina. Antología Poética (1968) Selección por Alfredo Veirave. Biblioteca Argentina Fundamental. Centro Editor de América Latina.
Gaiman, Neil (1996) Neverwhere. Roca Editorial de Libros, Barcelona.
Christie, Agatha (1950) Tres Ratones Ciegos. Selección Biblioteca de Oro, Editorial Molino. Barcelona, España.
February
Dinesen, Isak (1937) Memorias de África. Narrativa Actual. RBA Editorial.
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo. Poemas Esenciales (Selección) Editorial Salvat. 2022
Philip K. Dick (1987) The Collected Stories, Volume IV.
March
Darío, Ruben. Azul... Cuentos, y Poemas en Prosa. Colección Criol Literario. Editorial Aguilar. Séptima Edición, 1969.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1887) Estudio en Escarlata. Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022
April
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1890) El Signo de los Cuatro. Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1915) El Valle del Terror. Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022
Darío, Rubén. Poemas Esenciales (Selección) Editorial Salvat. 2022
Christie, Agatha (1937) Muerte en el Nilo. Editorial Planeta de Agostini. Barcelona, España. 2022.
Mayo
Hernández, Miguel. Poemas Esenciales (Selección) Editorial Salvat. 2022
Quiroga, Horacio. La Gallina Degollada y otros cuentos. Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Editorial ... 19...
Junio
Cortázar, Julio. El Perseguidor y otros cuentos. Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Editorial... 19...
Echeverría, Esteban. La Cautiva, El Matadero y otros escritos. Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Editorial ... 19...
Christie, Agatha. Y no quedó ninguno (1939). Editorial Planeta de Agostini. Barcelona, España. 2022.
Julio
Jiménez, Juan Ramón. Poemas Esenciales (Selección) Editorial Salvat. 2022
Leroux, Gastón. El Misterio del Cuarto Amarillo (1907). Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022.
Lorca, Federíco García. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat. 2022
Christie, Agatha (1934) Asesinato en el Expreso Oriental. Editorial Planeta de Agostini. Barcelona, España. 2022
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1910) El Candor del Padre Brown. Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022
Martí, José. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat. 2022
Agosto
Varios autores. Los Poetas de Florida. Selección por Guillermo Ara. Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Centro Editor de América Latina. 1968
Varios autores. Los Escritores de Boedo. Selección por Carlos R. Giordano. Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Centro Editor de América Latina. 1968
Austen, Jane (1813) Orgullo y Prejuicio. Traducción de Alejandro Pareja Rodríguez. RBA Editorial. España, 2022
Milne, Alan Alexander (1924) When We Were Very Young
Mistral, Gabierla. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat. 2002
Septiembre
Christie, Agatha (1926) El Asesinato de Roger Ackroyd. Editorial Planeta de Agostini. Barcelona, España. 2022
Neruda, Pablo. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat. 2022
Poe, Edgar Allan (1841) Los Asesinatos de la Rue Morgue y otros cuentos. Editorial Salvat. Barcelona, España. 2022
Nervo, Amado. Poemas Esenciales (Selección). Editorial Salvat. 2022
Book Review: Poemas Esenciales de Rafael Alberti
My Review in a Tweet:
"If poetry isn't important, then why do they kill poets?". Rafael Alberti is an angry witness of the killings of his comrades, while spending his life lamenting the time he couldn't spend in the sea.
My Full Review:
Rafael Alberti, spanish poet of the 20th century, was an angry and bitter man.
And why wouldn't he be? His fellow poets, murdered by fascist regimes in Spain and Chile. His life-long lover, the sea, taunts him and pulls him in every time he's afar. Even the culture of his motherland seems to conflict him at times.
This particular selections of Alberti´s poems constitute a biography of sorts, a touch-and-go parade through some moments of his life. The more recurring themes along his verses are the sea and the sailor's lifestyle, bulls and the toreros that defy them, Spain and the many cities Alberti lived in, the Communist Ghost and the fascist regimes that appeared in Latin America and Spain during his lifetime. Some of his poems work are obituaries of other poets murdered by their political views.
I particularly enjoyed his VERSOS SUELTOS DE CADA DÍA Primer y segundo cuadernos chinos (1979-1982) where he just casually adds new verses to a small notebook he carries in his trips. The shifts in his mood and the sudden topic changes with no warning and without rhyme or reason further enhance the journal nature of those poems and verses. Some passages are hilarious, some are melancholic and some would make prudes blush.
I reiterate my opposition to grade poetry books like I do with every other, suffice it to say that I liked it, even if I didn't quite get everything in it.
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Book Review: Antología poética de Alfonsina Storni
My Review in a tweet:
Storni's poetry swings between a crude and raw lament, and a gentle and melancholic yearn, walking on the edge of happiness and depression. Some of her works elude me beyond my grasp because of an innate womanhood that drives her art.
My Full Review:
Alfonsina Storni is a renowned poet from Argentina, a feminist icon of the past century and a topic of discussion with my mother. I inherited my passion for literature from her, so when she told me she couldn't connect with Storni's works, I had to find out if I could.
Now, having read some of the works thanks to this old selection of her poems, I feel like there's a world right next to the one I have lived in so far, a faint mirage of the world seen through the eyes of womanhood.
This isn't to say that I can't relate to or understand the feminist cause or the difficulties inherent to living as a woman, but Storni's poems make it seem and feel like an invisible pain that all women share in silence.
I knew before reading anything from Storni that she had a thing for the sea, a primal yearn to it, but it extends to all of nature, albeit a more gentle one towards everything else that isn't the deep blue of the ocean. She feels a deep connection to all living things, specially plants, and it shows in her poems, feeling herself like a tree of golden leaves and short branches.
She also finds a lot of inspiration in love and men. Those were some of the poems I found most entertaining, for they were sometimes hopeful and full of desire, and sometimes sad and almost remorseful.
In "Uno" ("One"), which I won't bother to translate to avoid butchering her poetry, Alfonsina talks so earnestly and almost in a lustful way of a stranger she meets on a train, pinning for him in a too familiar way. The comparisons she makes are reminiscent of nature and its goods and beauty, pointing at the honey color of his skin, the spring feeling of his presence and the copper sideline of his face.
Another common topic on her poetry is womandhood and, more specifically, the relationship between her and her mother. I found the next poem, "Palabras a mi Madre" (Words to my Mother), the most cruel, not because of ill feelings between one another, but because of the unexplainable distance and misunderstanding that taints their bond.
Overall, a conflicting and alienating reading, because it made me step out of my own experience as a man and peek behind the courtain of the women's world, for which I thank her.
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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.
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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
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Book Review: Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
My Review in a Tweet:
I'm not drawn to Non-Fiction, but this autobiographic tale, while a bit slow, captivated me. The fourth part is jarring because it's a random collage of stories; the rest of the narration was great, coming back and forth in her memories until the moment she leaves the continent.
My Full Review:
Trying to diversify my readings, I picked up again this book I got as a Christmas present back in 2015 but never managed to finish. I'm not entirely sure this book qualifies as Non-Fiction, since it's still very poetic in the way the author describes her years in her coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills, but I describe it as NF because it is an autobiographic narration of a period of her life.
I still had to drag myself a little through some parts of the book, but that's not on Isak Dinesen (or more accurately, on Karen Blixen, her real name), it's on me and the genres I usually read being quite different from this. The book itself is structured into five parts, each of them separated into smaller chapters.
Even then, I enjoyed this book: Dinesen/Blixen has an artistic soul and a taste for the beauty in the world that makes her descriptions and tales really outstanding and marvelous, giving the reader a careful and joyful glimpse into the Africa of the early years of the 20th Century. The love she distills for her farm and the workers that come and go in her life, while sometimes might sound "problematic" from our modern set of values, makes you ache when tragedies and setbacks occur.
I wish the expression "abanico cultural" (cultural fan, as in the accesory for the hot days) existed in English, because that's what this book opens in front of you: a range of cultural and sometimes religious ways of being human, with just a tinge of the author's bias, and even when she's more openly judgemental of the ways of the masai and the other tribes, she still sees the beauty and wonder of their lifestyles.
The final part of the book, when she describes how all the problems of the farm start to pile up and she has to sell and leave Africa, really makes you feel sorry for her, hoping that fate will smile to her and turn the downtrend of her coffee productivity. When she finally leaves, it's like waking up from a pleasant dream of a sweet memory, and you are left with that bittersweet taste of longing.
7.5/10
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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.
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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.
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Book Review: Azul..., Cuentos and Poemas en prosa, Rubén Darío
My Review in a Tweet:
Such a small book, and yet filled with wonders, rich in intertextuality that I doubt exists nowadays: it shines in his works a dedication to cultivate his knowledge of the contemporary literature and all that came before that I wish I could emulate.
My Full Review:
These poems and short stories decorate this books like the things that fills the house of someone who traveled.
And yet, at the moment of the first draft of the book and according to his friend Juan Valera, Ruben Darío had never left Nicaragua, his writing has elements of a hundred other poets and styles while making them their own, from places he never visited and times he never lived in.
Despite that, the collection of intrincancies and small tokens of the world make this book a very interesting but complex reading: you soon begin to feel too ignorant to really appreciate it, but I decided to view it as pulling the curtain to peek at a world that I felt was lost, one of true dedication to the culture and art as an inmportant facet of human experience.
Even more so today than ever before, when there seems to be an active anti-intellectualism stance when contemplating art, it is important to push ourselves to go beyond what we can fuly comprehend, to dive deeper into genres and authors that we deem too old or too far removed from our daily experience.
In terms of the quality of the writing, I can't really judge it, but I did enjoy it. Some passages of the poems struck me as particularly beautiful or mordant, depending on the tone. Some short stories were inscrutable, others were so simple and brilliant.
I'll add some fragments that I really liked, all from different poems or short stories. If I tried to translate them myself, I wouldn't do them justice, so I'll leave them in Spanish, as a small treasure for those followers that speak it, or a small challenge for those who wish to translate them by themselves.
Again, I won't score poetry, not even that in prose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Book Review: Poemas Esenciales, Juan Ramón Jiménez
My favorite poem of the book:
Destino ruin; si tu fueses // Cursed fate; if you were un hombre y se te pudiera // a man and one could buscar, igual que al león // hunt you, like the lion más terrible, por la tierra. // most fearsome, through the Earth
My Ful Review:
The only previous work I've read from Juan Ramón Jimenez is "Platero y Yo", about a kid and his donkey. It's been a while since I read it, but I can clearly trace the same wonder and curiosity of childhoodness in the poems included in this selection.
The author's verses are sweet and short, candid and full to the brim with the same eagerness to discover new things, marveling at the beauty of nature mostly.
That same childhood wonder though is also responsible for the erratic train of thought of the author, jumping from theme to theme with apparently no rhyme or reason, resulting in a aeries of poems with a very thin connection between them.
All in all, I liked his poetry, which seemed to mature in themes alongside the author.
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Book Review: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux
My favorite quote of the book:
"... He declared that he admired the cautious doubt with which certain people (me) approached the most simple problems from afar, not daring to say: this is like this, or this isn't like that, so that their intellects arrived to the same results as if nature had forgotten to put some gray matter in their skulls."
My Full Review:
One of the most famous closed-room mysteries out there, "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" is a captivating novel from french author Gaston Leroux that feels fresh despite being more than a century old.
The driving force of the novel and the most powerful magnet of the reader's attentions is our "detective" in the story, Joseph Boutabille, local reporter: a competitive boy, his charm has no rival and his self-confidence results admirable rather than annoying, buying himself the trust of any potential witness of the impossible crime of Mathilde Stangerson.
The crime itself is fascinating, and the author gives all the clues and tools to the reader to solve it by themselves, since the conclussions Boutabille draws are not really out of thin air, even when there are some hidden "mechanisms" in his mind that he later reveals during the trial of the main suspect.
But since the mystery it's actually two-fold, the author takes the same route as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Valley of Fear": there's an impossible-to-know-or-suspect backstory of some of the characters that complete the puzzle and explains their odd behavior, which cheats the reader from dechypering the rest of the mystery completely by themselves.
Regarding the style, given it's the narration from the point of view of Sainclair, lawyer and friend of the young reporter, it has a careful prose and rich vocabulary, which doesn't prevent the author from highlighting even more the intrepid spirit and resourceful mindset of the young Boitabille, who compensates his more proactive and sometimes premature attitude with a fierce adherence to logic and reason.
A lovely novel and a captivating mystery.
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Book Review: Poemas Esenciales by Federico Garcia Lorca
My Favorite poem of the book:
Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte. [...] Llena, pues, de palabras mi locura o déjame vivir en mi serena noche del ahora para siempre oscura. // Love of my guts, living death, in vain I await your written word and I think, with the whitering flower that if I live without me I want to lose you. [...] Fill, then, of words my madness or let me live in my serene night of now for ever dark.
My Full Review:
Oh Lorca, dear Lorca: were you set up to dissapoint me by your peers? Were my expectations too high? Is my understanding and knowledge of poetry that shallow? Was this particular selection a disservice to your works?
I think I'm simply not well versed in the style and artistic school of the "Generación del 27", but I couldn't really connect nor enjoy most of the poems included in this book.
Even the most basic symbolisms seemed too vague to me to truly grasp, and I feel so dissapointed in myself, because I really looked forward to finally reading his poetry, but the almost surrealist nature of his verses alienated me.
I hope I can come back to this book and to this poet with kinder eyes, it's the least he deserves from me.
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