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J.J.. Millas, look at the world through the keyhole

 Madrid. EFE. As happens to Damian, the protagonist of his new novel, From the shadow, the Spanish Juan Jose Millas, as “any other writer”, he likes to observe reality “through the keyhole” and then tell it from the conviction that “it is impossible to write from welfare.”

 

 “I always write from the conflict” from a bad relationship “with the world, with reality,” says the writer, who believes that since the shadow (Seix Barral) is his most personal novel. Damian, the protagonist of this history of strong symbolism, an unlikely story that mastery of Millás becomes plausible, live, by random circumstances, inside an old wardrobe of three bodies. From the darkness within, from the shadows, he witnesses and ghostly protagonist of the daily life of a couple and their teenage daughter.

 

 Long, Millás’s mind was considering the idea of ​​writing a story about what compares with a coffin, with the womb, with the subconscious itself: a closet. So far the news, to seek the novel.

 

  The “power mapping” in Juan Gabriel Vásquez

 

 Juan Gabriel Vasquez is arguably one of the most talented storytellers of recent Latin American literature. He won the Alfaguara 2011 with The Sound of Things Falling; He has forged works of high level and a trajectory that is reflected in the reconstruction of violent events that transformed Colombian society. He has managed to recreate the pain of time before the political changes, devise a “cartography of power” where the stories conceive fear, happiness and misery of a country. In the ruins forms (Alfaguara, 2015) it has pursued this obsession have indecipherable chapters of Colombian history of the twentieth century and show the historical traumas that continue to affect the lives of characters in the XXI century. The killings of political Jorge Eliecer Gaitan in 1948 and Rafael Uribe Uribe charge in 1914 following the unexplained force attempted theft by Carlos Carballo: steal a cloth costume murdered politician Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.

 

 A way to Santiago Zavala in Conversation in the Cathedral, Carballo live tormented trying to decipher the union of these murders with John F. Kennedy and stories of conspiracy to overshadow our Latin American reality.