El sicario en la novela colombiana

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

Originalmente parte del libro Por cuenta propia (2010), que reúne los ensayos de Rafael Chirbes sobre literatura, en este magistral "La estrategia del boomerang", Chirbes explica su teoría de la novela y su propia trastienda de escritor. Imprescindible para conocer las claves de su escritura.

Pablo quiere ser capitán y navegar en ese mar que en el horizonte parece fusionarse con el cielo. En esta verdadera aventura en altamar, el pequeño demostrará que es posible derrotar al terrible kraken, encontrar mapas de auténticos tesoros y afrontar sus miedos más grandes, que se presentan en cada una de sus pesadillas y que parecen interponerse entre él y su sueño de ser capitán: las tormentas y naufragar.