Neo-naturalism, a literary trend in vogue, heir to great masters such as Cela and Delibes.
Troy Horse is a seal of the gigantic Penguin Random House publishing group, which has the rare idea of functioning as a small independent publishing house, destined to discover new literary talents that stray, to a greater or lesser extent, of commercial criteria of the moment.
Each year an editor-in-chief is responsible for selecting six books by six authors. The editors, renowned authors in the literary world, Elvira Navarro (2015), Alberto Olmos (2016), Lara Moreno (2017) and Mercedes Cebrián (2018).
Pilar Fraile, The Advantages of Country Life.
The last work that has been released with the Caballo de Troya publishing house, by the hand of Mercedes Cebrián, is a neo-naturalist novel, The Advantages of Country Lifeby Pilar Fraile.
Pilar Fraile Amador (Salamanca, 1975), professor of philosophy in Baccalaureate and doctor in Theory of Literature from the UCM, is a multifaceted writer who has published poems, stories and essays.
En The Advantages of Country Life, the author confronts rural society with the new settlers fleeing the city seeking a different life, space and nature, where to flee after endless days in closed offices in concrete landscapes. A novel that explores the intimacy of feelings, insecurities, the small milestones of daily life lived internally as tragedies. And it is that peace or restlessness is carried inside and our ghosts cannot be escaped with just a move.
Neo-naturalism, by the hand of Pilar Fraile, with The Advantages of Life in the Countryside.
Neorrurarlism.
Neo-naturalism is a literary movement new, XXI century, heir to the classics of the middle of the last century, like Miguel Delibes o Camilo José Cela. With a certain inheritance from that oppressive environment typical of the parents of the genre, Pilar Fraile transports literature to the housing estates built in the middle of nowhere and the new migratory phenomenon that goes from the city to the towns not conquered by the tree real estate, which are close enough to the big cities to be practicable and, at the same time, conveniently far away to maintain the "rural" life that many city residents crave and even mythologize as in the past. The Advantages of Country Life.
With a past in peripheral neighborhoods, raised in small and poorly built flats, crammed into neighborhoods in which the blocks are indistinguishable from each other, in which privacy is besieged by lack of space, the protagonists of The Advantages of Living in the Country, Alicia and Andrés, They look in the town for the life they would have liked to have in the city, becoming strangers in both places, among themselves and for themselves. Only her daughter, little Miranda, is capable of transporting her happiness wherever she is taken.
Trojan Horse has bet this time on a literature intimate, thoughtful, characteristic of the seal, perfect to read in an afternoon of laziness and laziness.
2019: As every year, new address in Trojan Horse.
In 2019 the selection of the six works to be published will be in the hands of two people, Luna Miguel and Antonio J. Rodríguez. The objective? Give voice to writers born in the late eighties and nineties, non-fiction, feminism and as always, cult literature that does not fit into the usual publishing circuit.