Perhaps the prospects for this new year are not so good, with two wars raging and Trump likely to emerge as the winner of the race for the White House, but if we decide to lock ourselves in our homes – an isolation that opens our minds – and dedicate ourselves to that which will never fail, books, changing things . There will be everything in 2024: well-known names, authors to be discovered, and articles that will try to explain how we got here.
There is no doubt that the jewel in the crown of the news of 2024, the year in which ten people died Gabriel Garcia Marquez The novel, which he put in a drawer after being dissatisfied with the result, and which his children finally decided to announce to the public, was published on March 6th. ‘See you in August (Random House) tells the story of the sexual awakening of a mature woman who visits her mother’s grave every year. It will be a worldwide editorial bombshell.
Another requested writer is Eduardo Mendoza with what’Three puzzles for the organization Set in Barcelona in 2022, it largely deals with a thriller novel with its ordinary and exaggerated style, where former members of a secret society formed during the Franco regime do their work. Pure Mendoza.
classic and modern
In Spanish lyrics ‘‘The last function’, Luis Landero– courtesy of Luis Mateo Díez, perhaps the most Cervantine of our novelists – who recreates an autumnal love story in an amateur theater performance and ‘‘black dog’From the groundbreaking author of 2022 Miguel Angel Oeste Around the late Nick Drake. Both from Tusquets. without forgetting ‘Before oblivion comes’ (Siruela), where criticism was made Ana Rodríguez Fischer He won the Café Gijón and his fiction ‘Vibración’, in which José Ovejero (Galaxia Gutenberg) brings together the living and the dead.
Deserves special mention ‘NMK8 invented the Eight interview’ (H&O) fake interviews of a beardless manEnrique Vila-Matas It was published in ‘Fotogramas’ magazine. Marlon Brando, Patricia Highsmith, José Antonio Bardem and Anthony Burgues imaginatively ‘responded’ to the interviewer’s imagination.
Things to consider about Latin Americans ‘The style of the elements’ by Rodrigo Fresán, a mega-novel by the exuberant Argentinian author, and ‘Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun’ by Ecuadorian Mónica Ojeda (both at Random House). In addition ‘Metemppsychosis’from Guatemala Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Alfaguara) and ‘The past is behind us Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos (anagram).
Finally Murakami
Maybe it will be 2024 Haruki Murakami If Swedish academics finally decide to give him the Nobel. In the meantime we will continue to wait ‘The city and its obscure walls’ (Tusquets) is his new novella in six years, with no shortage of original and addictive content. It will also be highly recommended ‘What they say or nothing‘ (Cabaret Voltaire), revived in 1977, major Annie Ernaux He introduces himself as an inexperienced teenager. There will be another recovery ‘The distance that separates us’ best seller Maggie O’Farrell (Asteroide / L’Altre), without underestimating two very serious women Tessa Hadley (‘The Past’, The Sixth Floor / 1984) and Amelie Nothomb (‘Aerostats’, Anagrama). As for the ‘gentlemen’, we have to mention the extraordinary Georgi Gospodinov, Booker winner and Impedimenta survivor. ‘About the theft of stories and other stories’with Chuck Palahniukand equal parts cruel and funny ‘Invention of sound’ (Random House) and ‘liberation day (Seix Barral / 1984), a handful of masterfully crafted stories George Saunders.
Some important anniversaries will mark the year of culture. The most famous will be the centenary of his death Franz Kafka It will bring some news like ‘I am Milena from Prague (Gutenberg Galaxy) which Monika Zgustova takes on the appearance of the author’s lover; ‘You are in charge’ (Cliff), a collection of aphorisms compiled by Reiner Stach, biographer of the author of ‘Metamorphosis’; We also need to add reprints of the book to these. ‘A hunger artist’ (Scandinavian) and its ‘Complete stories’ In Foam Sheets. On the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death, his canonical biography will be published in a signed form. Fiona MacCarthy (Discussion) and novel Edna O’Brian ‘Byron in love’ (Voltaire Cabaret). The 20th anniversary of the Islamist attacks in Atocha will be closer and more painful, giving rise to many headlines such as ”.Call. 11-M’s lies: Aznar wanted it to be that way ETA‘ (Argument) Jesus Ceberio; ‘Voices of 11-M’ by Victor Sampedro And ‘Secret keys of 11-M’ from Lorenzo Ramírez (The domain of books).