Books to read in a few hours

That you don't have time will no longer be the perfect excuse to say you don't read. We have prepared a list for you with at least 5 book titles great that you can also read in a few hours. At most it will take you an afternoon. It is the perfect article to read now on the weekend when we have a few more hours of rest a day.

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"November" by Gustave Flaubert, ideal for the most romantic

• Synopsis: Flaubert wrote in November 1842, when he was barely twenty years old. Considered the novel that closes the production of Flaubert's youth (marked by this work and by Memories of a madman), we are facing an authentic sentimental bildungsroman, a surprising novel of love initiation, which explores the subtle mechanisms isms of erotic attraction and remorse provoked by adulterous relationships and the passionate side of human relationships. In this novel, addictive to read, and a delicious journey on passionate exaltation, a boy, in which we can see Flaubert himself reflected, meditates during a country walk on women (including Marie, the prostitute who she began in the secrets of the flesh, and that she is, in equal parts, "the angelic and untouchable woman, and the fatal female armed with a destructive eroticism" in the words of Lluís Mª Todó). November is probably the genuine chronicle of a love obsession, with a young Flaubert as the protagonist. This novel, which Flaubert did not publish in his lifetime but which he always regarded with special affection, is a skillful dissection of the world of love, analyzing the passion and suffering associated with it, whose psychological depth already foreshadows the style of future works. What "Madame Bovary" o "Sentimental education".

• Number of pages: 144.

"Antichrist" by Amélie Nothomb, for the most tragic and dramatic

• What's it about ?: Blanche meets Christa at the University of Brussels. They are both sixteen years old, Blanche is lonely, shy and insecure, Christa dazzles with her talent for seduction and her impudence. The meeting of these personalities could have led to a lasting friendship, but it becomes a painful path of manipulation, abuse and humiliation for Blanche, who decides to rebel. Antichrista, an initiatory tragicomedy about the emotional dependencies of adolescence and a reflection on the vulnerability, suffering and expectations of that no-man's-land located between childhood and youth.

• Number of pages: 131.

"No news from gurb" by Eduardo Mendoza, for the most smiling

• Plot: The book recounts the search for an alien (Gurb) who has disappeared, after adopting the appearance of Marta Sánchez, in the city of Barcelona. The narrator is not Gurb, but another alien who comes after him after becoming the Count-Duke of Olivares, although his appearance changes as the plot progresses, becoming characters such as Miguel de Unamuno, Paquirrín, Isoroku Yamamoto , the Duke of Kent or Alfonso V de León, and whose diary constitutes the guide of the narrative. The protagonist begins the story with ideas and goals that change as he changes to adapt to the way of life on the planet. The nature of this story is satire and paradox. The author turns the absurd and everyday city into the scene of a carnival that reveals the true face of today's urban human being and the accelerated artistic awareness of the writer.

• Number of pages: 143.

"Rebelion on the farm" by George Orwell, for those who want to understand a little better the current politics

• Synopsis: A condemnation of totalitarian society, brilliantly stunned in an ingenious allegorical fable. The animals on the Jones' farm rise up against their human owners and defeat them. But the rebellion will fail as rivalries and jealousies arise among them, and some allying themselves with the masters they overthrew, betraying their own identity and the interests of their class. Although Farm Rebellion was conceived as a ruthless satire of the Stalinism, the universal character of its message makes this book an extraordinary analysis of the corruption that power engenders, a furious diatribe against totalitarianism of any kind and a lucid examination of the manipulations that historical truth undergoes in moments of political transformation.

• Number of pages: 144.

"Another twist" by Henry James, for the most terrifying and fanciful

• Argument: A governess attends the care of two children in an old Victorian mansion. What at first seems like a pleasant assignment will turn into a nightmare situation. The children are impacted by an immediate past in which the previous governess, Miss Jessel, and Peter Quint, the patron's servant and valet (the children's uncle) had a murky relationship. It could be assumed that certain abuses occurred. Life with the governess and her subsequent death have left an indelible mark on them. The protagonist of the story, when trying to help the children, begins to perceive the apparitions of the ghosts of the previous governess, who died in strange circumstances, the children and the governess pass through them.

• Number of pages: 204.

We assure you, whatever your choice is, you will be hooked and you will finish it in a few hours. That lack of time does not prevent you from reading.