Siri Hustvedt recalls Paul Auster and a new story by Isabel Allende and Eduardo Mendoza

The month of Book Day comes with juicy news. Above, among all, the book which Siri Hustvedt dedicated to fighting her husband’s death, the inevitable Paul Auster. Another great and powerful piece is the new novella Eduardo Mendozawho saved his legendary detective without his name.

Poet Luis García Montero returned to fiction ten years after his last published novel. Además, lo nuevo de John Banville y Cesar Aira stands out among the big news on the market.

The No Fiction section is locked Magic word. Written lifede Isabel Allendein which the Chilean author reflects on her work, indestructible inherent in her vital journey. Además, the definitive biography Jaime Gil de Biedma and thoughts on Felix de Azúa y Andres Barba.

Edward H. Gibson was born with an extraordinary anomaly: I felt no physical pain. This was the first known case of total congenital analgesia. The writer Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975) returns to his history as a starting point to write a unique book about pain, which will be published in the New Anagram Notebooks collection, a regular recipient of short essays.

PUSH public crucifixion de Gibson, transformed into a folk attraction, unleashes Barb’s philosophical reflection, which falls from the symbolic plane in pain, contemplates artistic exposure, etc. It takes just over 100 pages to resolve this bold text towards the extrañamient that pain evokes.

Every book by Eduardo Mendoza (Barcelona,​​​​​​​​​​1943) is an accompaniment. He recently greeted the latest Princesa de Asturias de las Litras Awardis the dueño of a unique universe in which humor, satire and, above all, the art of good storytelling are combined.

This time again with a funny detective without a name, where we record unforgettable stories like The mystery of the built-in crypt y Labyrinth aceitunas. A Novato journalist, sent to chronicle a particular funeral, may have derailed a large-scale financial investigation. Prometheus.

More than ten years ago, the poet was lurking Luis García Montero (Granada, 1958), director of the Instituto Cervantes since 2018, without thinking about the novel, created what he did not do. Best edad It seems to maintain the emotional tone of the front (Don’t tell me what your life is like y Alguien says your name), but on this occasion you need a more extravagant plan. The representative enters with a game that condensed it many years ago.

The wide-ranging conversation concerns the characters’ family heritage, remorse and other recurring themes of the author: complicity, care, reconciliation…

A sus ochenta años, John Banville (Wexford, Ireland, 1945) sigue en plena forma. It is a usual for Nobel Prize quinielsalthough he does not attach much importance to it. In the middle of the grave is his work and he continues to work tirelessly in it. For a new adventure, we are transported to Venice after several close families remain in their desperate retreat due to her relationship with her oil tycoon father.

But we know that the plan in the Banville novel is only the tip of the iceberg, and this thriller psychology is determined by the environment. The Venetian fog turns out to be crucial in the development of one of the moments that passes around the Palazzo Dioscuri. “Landscape is what matters, not feelings”I told the author recently at the Prado Museum.

It is not a memoir or a writing guide. Magic word It’s not, strictly speaking, one thing to another, but the name totally evokes our imagination. “Writing within the dimension of dreams, intuition, premonition; let me know and let the characters do what they want and that the story is so similar”, we read.

The Chilean writer felt the need to recapitulate through writing a whole life of great achievements, but also something described by others. Jamás just left: “When I write, I transform into a medium. For me, writing is not an option, it is an addition”, this book says.

A great biography of Jaime Gil de Biedma, who inspired the film Council of Sodomreturned to bookstores more than twenty years ago. Miguel Dalmau (Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​1957) brings new data – and materials – about the mysterious life of the poet, one of the most influential of the last century.

His poetic work, which includes formidable songs – “I will not return to youth” – is not as rich as his own biography, which he tells in the bohemia of Barcelona in the 1970s – with Carlos Barral, José Agustín Goytisolo and Juan Marséamong some running companions—and is rich in loving passions.

Two years before his death Paul Austerpublishes a love letter in the form of a book in Spain, which he dedicates to his wife, with whom he has been in a relationship for 43 years. Siri Hustvedt (Minnesota, 1955) took off her lips when she confessed before the march that she wanted to become a ghost, to go back to see how she met, how she wrote or how she grew up.

By the author Todo cuanto ame (2003) enters the book with the mover of the relation of tangible cases, which continues to be maintained with Auster, who then follows the oiling of tobacco, resorting to his books… Also included, Unpublished documents of great valuefrom notes exchanged over decades to Auster’s last papers to his new one.

César Aira (Coronel Pringles, Argentina, 1949) proyecta en Room a literary play that includes Paris as a mysterious setting. A cinema frequented by young Koreans motivates an electrician who speaks by writing to learn. The novel, originally published in French in 1996 and now translated by its own author, is ironic, one of its identity marks, inspired by Marguerite Duras.

Aira transforms political intrigue into a meditation on desire, deception and the power of fiction. Room it confirms the status of a nonconformist writer: an author who returned the rules of realism and narrative with each book.

Félix de Azúa (Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​1944) is thinking about changing the paradigm of visitors to the British Museum, who abandoned their interest in Greek classicism because of the Egyptian mystery. A monumental fraud discern history of gothicFrom its medieval splendor to contemporary parodies, the author is inspired by a sense of humor to return to it without forgetting the intellectual imprint it left on his work.

Thought explores how Europe has turned its cathedrals into decoration and its aesthetic memory into tourist merchandise. Between Notre-Dame and Disneyland in Paris, Azúa reflects on this part of the Gothic, when its spirit was supplemented by capitalism.