The newspaper ElPaís.es just selected the 10 best books of last year. The election was held among all the books reviewed in the newspaper throughout 2013. 56 critics and reporters for Culture of the Country participated in the vote for the best works. “On the edge” of Rafael Chirbes, “Limonov” Emmanuel Carrère and “Complete Works” of Blas de Otero occupy the top ranking in which the subjects ranging from the housing bubble to social networks, Putin’s Russia the nationalist strain in Spain. 1. ON THE SHORE (CHIRBES RAFAEL, ANAGRAMA) The discovery of a corpse in the swamp Olba launches the narration. Its protagonist, Stephen, has been forced to close the joinery he owned, leaving the unemployed who worked for him. While in charge of caring for his father, terminally ill, Stephen explores the reasons for assuming a wreck in his dual role of victim and executioner, whose rubble and find the values that have governed a society, a world time. The novel forces us to look to the muddy area that was always there, but for years no one seemed to be willing to take it at the same time and place of use are hidden abyss where crimes have washed and private and public consciousness. Heir to the best tradition of realism, the style of On the shore stands on straightforward language and an obsessive tone that grabs the reader from the first line making it complicit.
Two. Limonov (EMMANUEL CARRÈRE, TRANSLATION OF JAIME ZULAIKA, ANAGRAMA)
“Limonov is not a fictional character. There and I know, “warns Emmanuel Carrère. This biographical novel or fictionalized biography traces the life of a real person that seems to have sprung from fiction. An excessive and quirky character with an almost unbelievable life adventure, which allows the author to draw a convincing portrait of the Russia of the past fifty years while venturing into a dazzling inquiry into the paradoxes of the human condition. Poet and quarrelsome in his youth, Limonov attended clandestine circles of dissent in the Soviet Union, was forced into exile and landed in New York, where he lived as a vagabond, Butler was a millionaire and wrote autobiographical novels. He continued to do so when he went to Paris and achieved notoriety with a scandalous novel about his New York adventures on the wild side. From there he went to the Balkans, where he supported to the end the Serb cause, and then returned to post-communist Russia to found a National Bolshevik Party was banned. He ended up in jail, accused of attempted coup, and there wrote more books, had a mystical experience and out became opponent of Putin. Ambiguous, elusive and bizarre, this fascinating and detestable equally character, half romantic hero and half abominable fool is so contradictory and confusing that it becomes its own right in meat novel and the protagonist of this splendid and surprising narrative, award-winning with Renaudot Prize, the Prize of the French Language, 2011, and in particular, the Prix des Prix 2011, which is selected from the winners of the eight major French literary prizes (Académie française, Décembre, Femina, Flore, Goncourt, Interallié, Medici and Renaudot). “An amazing book, unclassifiable. And touching. How do you consider it? Like a novel? Like a portrait? “Limonov is not a fictional character?, Warns Emmanuel Carrère. Exists and I know. Among the thousand and one ways to exist, there is one that involves writing stories. And another, no less enduring, which is to be the hero of one of them “(Yasmina Reza, Le Monde).” Much more than a portrait of an unlikely man, is a history of the last fifty years in Russia. Y contains memorable pages “(Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du Dimanche) . “An adventure story and a journey through Russian history. Impossible release, because it is written with a dry tone and raw, with a withering sentences, full density explosive details” (Le Point). “bold and exciting” ( Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur). “An exceptional book. firm Carrère dazzling biographical narrative with the deceptive appearance of a distorting mirror” (Jean-Christophe Buisson, Le Figaro Magazine).
Three. COMPLETE WORKS (BLAS DE OTERO, GUTENBERG GALAXY – BOOK CLUB)
For the first time the Complete Works (1935-1977) of Blas de Otero meets. This unit volume of verse and prose, welcomes all books the poet published posthumously in another life, “leaves Madrid with the gale” anticipated by the same publisher, and two others left unreleased.
April. EVERYTHING WAS SOLID (ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA, SEIX BARRAL)
This is a direct and passionate essay, a narrative and testimonial reflection, in the style of George Orwell’s essays or Virginia Woolf, a specific proposal for action and enthusiastic move from the current economic, political and social deterioration to the reality that we want to build. From both journalistic documents and the literary tradition, Antonio Muñoz Molina writes wielding reason and respect, without avoiding bitter truths they may be, because knowledge is the only way to change things. Witness a time they were not yet reach our rights in danger now, reminds us that nothing is forever, that any law can disappear. This essay calls us: “we need a serene civic rebellion” and urges us: “There can not be postponed things.” Everything was solid is a mirror in which everyone must look, no matter the ideological place where we move, where we live or our social status, a call for us to react, each in our scope and contagiemos with our example a civic responsibility that we must demand, overwhelmingly, our leaders … 5. CANADA (RICHARD FORD, ANAGRAMA) Dell Parsons is fifteen when something happens that will forever mark his life: his parents rob a bank and were arrested. His world and his twin sister Berner falls apart at that time. With parents in prison, Berner decides to flee the family home in Montana. A Dell, a friend of the family will help you cross the Canadian border with the hope that there can restart their lives in better conditions. In Canada he will take care of Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic American whose coldness hiding a dark and violent. And in this new environment, Dell renewed on his life and face the adult world. A beautiful and profound novel about the loss of innocence, about family ties and the path one travels to reach maturity. ‘One of the best stylists and one of the more humanistic storytellers of America … His book is more elegiac and profound “(Ron Charles, The Washington Post). “A great writer” (M. Dirda, The New York Review of Books). “A vast and magnificent art. This is one of the first great novels of the XXI Century “(John Banville). “Fascinating” (Colm Tóibín). “Richard Ford has written a powerful novel and haunting, a tremendous introduction to adulthood and a beautiful reflection on the weight of the past, infinitely recommended. I have no doubt that it will be considered his masterpiece . Returning to the initial comparison, Canada is the work of Ford, which went to Unforgiven Clint Eastwood. ” Notodo.com
6. MY DEAR LIFE (ALICE MUNRO, LUMEN)
? Bastan a stolen kiss, a jump from a moving train, the shadow of a woman around me around a house, a drunken afternoon or risky questions to form a girl a world that is self-reliant and tell the whole life? If the writer Alice Munro is a simple adjective used to cross the borders of the story and put us in the place where feelings and emotions are born.
The great Canadian author surprises us again with my dear life, a collection of stories where we see men and forced to deal with life without his humanity more resources than women. Beginnings, endings, turns of fate and suddenly, when we thought that the story would come to an obvious conclusion, Munro invites us to take another twist that changes the flow of events and excites the reader, showing how the daily life so tired that we can be extraordinary.
Closes volume Munro dedicates a few pages to his own life, a splendid notes where the personal merges with fiction, then, in the words of the same author ‘autobiography lives in the form rather than the content. ”
7. 14 (JEAN ECHENOZ, ANAGRAMA)
How to write about the Great War, the first “technological” war of the twentieth century, and the door, too, half a century of unprecedented barbarism? Echenoz faces a new literary challenge than masterfully. The accurate pen of the writer proceeds with the soldiers in their long hours of operation by countries at war and follows four young Vendée, Anthime and friends, indiscernible amidst a mass of flesh and metal, shells and dead .But it also tells us that life goes on, away from the trenches, by characters like Blanche and family. And all this without sacrificing the subtle irony that characterizes his writing, a gripping account essential condiment.”This short novel, with echoes of Jules and Jim (…) is a new concentrated Echenoz Art” (Norbert Czarny, La Quinzaine Littéraire). “Enlist in the Great War, after so many they did, it was a big risk for Jean Echenoz. Well, the won, and returned full “(Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du Dimanche). “This new novel focuses and summarizes the best echenoziana writing” (Florence Bouchy, Le Monde).
“14 contains a brief but dense meditation on the fate of generations. If other novelists need hundreds of pages to tell us how it destroys the world, Echenoz have been enough to leave us 15 brief chapters painfully amazed at the great slaughter of 14. ” Enrique Vila-Matas. El País.
8. Sociophobia (CAESAR RENDUELES, CAPTAIN SWING)
After the collapse of the neoliberal utopia, the great ideological consensus of our time is the capacity of communication technologies to induce positive social dynamics. The knowledge economy is unanimously considered as the solution to the speculative market deterioration, social networks are the remedy to embrittlement of our globalized and nomadic lives; CyberPolitics aims to regenerate the exhausted our democracies … Sociophobia ciberfetichista questions this dogma. The ideology of the social network has generated a really decreased, not increased. It has simply lowered our expectations of what to expect from political intervention or personal relationships.
9. WEATHER (JESUS CARRASCO, SEIX BARRAL)
A child runaway listen, I crouched in the back of his hiding place, the cries of men who seek it. When the game goes, what is left to him is an endless and arid plain that must definitely go through if you want to get away from what made him flee. One night, his footsteps are crossed with an old goatherd, and from that moment on, nothing will be the same for either. Weatherproof recounts the flight of a child through a country ravaged by drought and ruled by violence. A closed world, no names or dates, in which morality has escaped the same sump which the water is gone. In that scenario, the child, not yet entirely spoiled, have the opportunity to start in the painful elements of the trial or, conversely, to exercise for the violence that has always sucked. Through archetypes like the child, the goatherd or sheriff, Jesus Carrasco builds a hard story, peppered with moments of great lyricism. A carved novel word for word, where the presence of an inclement Nature weaves throughout history to be confused with the plot and in which the dignity of man bursts through cracks in the dry earth with unusual force.
10. STORIES OF SPAIN. VISIONS OF THE PAST AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY (JOSÉ ALVAREZ JUNCO (COORDINATOR), CRITICAL – MARTIAL PONS)
were obviously concerned with historians and their works, but it is not just a study of history books, but also about ideas and beliefs: on the evolution of the visions of the past with this territory and human group known today as Spanish??. His critical effort as prone to jingoistic myth, which makes them fear that the authors could find? An unfavorable reception in certain areas?, Gives a special value to a book of exemplary rigor and objectivity ground.
was found here first and most extensive Jose Alvarez Junco and Gregorio dela Fuente Mongehan entitled essential part? stories Spain. Visions of the past and identity construction?. Complemented by two studies of special interest. Carolyn Boyd is concerned? Textbooks?, From the eighteenth century to the present, and how the teaching of history in official education plans organized. Edward Baker, meanwhile, analyzes? Commemorative culture? the role of monuments and memorials.
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Top 10 worst men profiles for internet dating sites
February 10, 2014The online dating web loventine has developed a ranking with the worst profiles of men in dating sites online.If you really want to find a partner, then you should have a look at this list and keep your profile look like any of these. 1.Caliente Leave too personal such as your phone number, email address, facebook account, etc. in your profile on the dating sites, you will see as a desperate or needy women. Many men do this thinking they will achieve faster contacted the site with other girls, but this ends up hurting and just making them look like a desperate. 2.Inconsistente When creating your profile to find your next partner is a bad idea to try to be someone else. This is one of the main reasons why many men profiles are inconsistent. On the Internet it is much easier to lie and exaggerate that in real life, but remember this will sooner or later you will play against.For example: if you write in your description that you are a shy person, then placed a modest royalty on your profile. 3.Buscando sex Dating sites are used to find stable relationships or couples. If you want adventure or informal relationships, there are other sites where you can register. For you to be more direct and write in your profile that you are only interested in meeting women for sex, will be difficult to receive messages or proposals on such sites. 4.Mala spelling According to recent surveys, one of the things I hate men and women in dating sites for people to write is wrong. Serious spelling and writing in cellular mode, ie use “q” instead of “you” or “x” instead of “for” are the things that make many women decide not to contact certain men online. You must take care of your writing both in comments you add to your profile, and you send messages to other site members. 5.Demasiado romantic Some men think that the more romantic is your listing more women will visit. Nothing more wrong. Women like men attentive and romantic, but it is not necessary to exaggerate. This demonstrated that the worst words for a profile are “marriage”, “children”, “Baby” and “princess”. People on dating sites first just want to meet and see if we can start a serious relationship. Write things like “I’m looking for the mother of my children” and “I’d marry you” can be a sound a little strong in this context. 6.Aterrador Some men, many of them perhaps without even realizing it, often create profiles really scary. If what you want is to find a woman with whom you can form a pair, then you should not try to scare her.Make sure your profile comments, photos you upload, your username and send messages that generate a positive thought in others. 7.Aparentando be rich Pretending to be rich and upload photos showing money is not a good choice for draw the attention of women on the Internet. All you get are scams or scammer messages only interested in your money. If this is not what you want, then you should avoid talking about your financial situation on the Internet. 8.Sin few data photos and Los profile without pictures are of the most overlooked online. It is estimated that those who do not have pictures on your profile receive on average 70% fewer visits and 50% fewer responses to their messages. A profile without photo gives the impression that the person is trying to hide something or at least not too serious about finding a new relationship. Try to upload your best photos and complete as much information as possible to increase your chances of finding love online. 9.Mujeriego not want other users of the site think you’re a womanizer, so post pictures on your profile where to go out with other women is a very bad idea. It is you who want to meet you, so you must focus on only upload your own photos. While you are sexiest women in the photos, the less likely you are to contact you or respond to your messages. 10.Without clothes some years it became fashionable to take pictures and shirtless in the mirror. According to the latest statistics from dating sites, very few men should dare to publish such images. If you do not want to look ridiculous and ruin your chances of meeting new women, then you should stay away from these types of photos.
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