2023-09-04 07:51:25
Novel with historical notes and essay. I have many authors and I reread some of them several times: Haruki Murakami, John Irving, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Ken Follett’s two historical fiction trilogies are a pleasure. The list is heterogeneous and long.
Why do you reread so much?
When a novel is good, you have to reread it because details are overlooked, it’s like reading something new. For example, those of Wilkie Collins and Gustave Flaubert. And John Irving with his point Charles Dickens, who tells you in 600 pages the lives of various characters.
What seduces you about Murakami?
His novels are choral, there is a protagonist but the other characters are important. He casts an interesting spell, mixes elements of philosophical essay with thrillerthere is magical realism and a universal approach, he talks about Leo Tolstoy, Antonio Vivaldi…
It is a surreal point.
It introduces you to a real world with unreal elements; sometimes it’s scary how he is able to inject you with his work. The titles that have affected me the most are chronicles of a bird, Tokio in Blues and the most hypnotic Kafka on the shore.
Do you see commonalities with Milan Kundera?
Yes, the ability to create believable worlds where what shouldn’t happen happens. And I learn history.
More authors with nuances in common?
Irving and Ruiz Zafón, are capable of building great novels in which to recognize settings, moments, people.
The historical notes are going, tell me.
I like to know that when the Krakatoa volcano exploded, the temperature dropped a few degrees and that is why the impressionists painted the skies luminous, red, purple, due to the volcanic ash that intervened in the sunsets. And that the story of Frankenstein was a competition between five friends locked in a Swiss hotel. I investigate the authors and works.
Who gave you the passion to read?
I come from a multi-divorce family, but my mother was a great reader and she introduced me to popular literature.
Recent readings?
The light you can’t seeby Anthony Doerr, and Peaces and Helen Oyeyemi.
In format…
I’m no stranger to the tablet but I like the feel of the paper, the sequential feel of the turn.
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