Editorial Alba news for September 2015

News from Editorial Alba in September 2015

Alba is one of my favorite publishers. It publishes very interesting books, in addition to its collection of Writer's Guides (great for thoroughly evaluating what you read), among other things.

Today I am going to talk about the new arrivals that will be coming out throughout this month of September in this editorial. Some are already on my list. 

"The Interesting" by MegWolitzer

We are in the summer of 1972 and it is night. Six teenagers chat in their tent at a camp outside of New York. All but Julie are the children of wealthy Manhattan families. They all feel unique and interesting. They all want to be an artist. Interesting will follow each of them for forty years. The reader will experience how the passage of time will force them to negotiate with reality. He will share his triumphs and disappointments, sex, love and the experience of illness and the death of his loved ones.

Although Julie is the protagonist of the novel, the magic of The interesting ones It is in how Meg Wolitzer manages to plot the story of each of the friends, focusing on the moments when their life changes definitively.

"The spectator is the protagonist", by Daniel Tubau

For decades, screenwriters have examined the structure of their scripts thinking about what can happen to the protagonist, forgetting that what should really concern the screenwriter is what happens to the viewer. The obsession with gutting structures and acts, tracing motives and meanings or looking only in the audiovisual world, has made screenwriting a boring, tiring and predictable process, more typical of analysts and critics than of creators.

Daniel Tubau, coinciding with the renewal promoted by the creators or showrunners of the new television series, proposes to air the stuffy room of the scriptwriting with the freshness of the great narrative art. Faced with the easy tricks, the iron structures and the formulas to use, with a balanced mix of humor, wit and rigor, Tubau recalls the wealth of resources that any screenwriter has at his disposal.

The viewer is the protagonist it is both a manual and an anti-manual because its author does not limit himself to examining the errors disseminated by the gurus of the script, but also offers tools, such as the empathic method, to face narrative challenges. An insightful book in the diagnosis, innovative in its theories and highly stimulating in practice with which both the professional screenwriter and any storyteller will discover or regain the pleasure of writing.

«While we are young», by José Luis Correa

When the lifeless body of a student appears in a hallway in Las Palmas, and the alleged murderer requests his help, Ricardo Blanco does not know that he is facing one of the most complex cases of his career. As you delve into the investigation, you're not sure your client deserves the time and effort it would take to rid him of a conviction everyone takes for granted.

En While we are young, set in the university world, truths and lies intersect. Those who should defend the suspect seem bent on his conviction and, in contrast, those who rival him proclaim their innocence. The vitiated relationships, the generational conflicts, the academic intrigues give life to a story that has the ingredients that have made Correa one of the most genuine voices on the current literary scene: a dizzying pace, a sly vision of the world and a poetic language that they open an original and very suggestive space in the usual world of the crime novel.

"Judith Fürste" by AddaRavnkilde

Judith Fürste, dispossessed by legal tricks of her paternal inheritance by the man who has married her mother, an accommodating and conventional woman, lives in a situation of dependency and helplessness in a house that is no longer her home. She wants to educate herself, to work, to fend for herself, but the family order does not plan for her more than marriage.

When Johann Banner, the most illustrious nobleman in the region, sets his eyes on her, the young woman accepts him as a lifeline. But the marriage between the pride of a desperate young woman and the pride of an aristocrat jealous of his privileges is not exactly easy. The institution itself has its rules; and each contracting party his prejudices and his character.

Adda Ravnkilde wrote Judith Furste shortly before taking his own life in 1883, at the age of twenty-one, and in it he seems to have condensed an autobiographical experience. This is a deep and stormy novel about love and generosity, and the true way of the cross of errors, vanities and humiliations that must be overcome to achieve them.

Literary Agenda 2016

With more than 250 classics published in its catalog, Alba's career allows us to once again develop a genuinely literary agenda, with seriousness and rigor but also with a sense of humor. Suggestive illustrations, inspiring quotes and original ephemeris by the most prominent authors of world literature. Phrases like "Where there is much light, the shadow is darker" (Goethe) or as I'm just a literary lizard that warms up all day in the sun of beauty. Only that" (Flaubert) light up the weeks of 2016.


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