Yesterday we presented you an article with the literary news that the Editorial Seix Barral would present in the month of January (if you have not read it yet, you can do it here). Today, in turn, we present you more literary news from the same publisher, but this time referring to the month of February.
If you like to know what new books are going to be coming out, here we bring you 4 more.
News of February, 2017
These are the four books that Seix Barral Publishing House will release next February:
- "Three sad tigers" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante when we have the information.
- "The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão" by Martha Batalha.
- "A bookstore in Berlin" by Françoise Frenkel when we have the information.
- "Mac and his setback" Enrique Vila-Matas.
If you want to know a little more about what each of them is about and what literary criticism tells us, then you can read it.
"Three sad tigers" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It is 50 years since the birth of this wonderful work and Seix Barral has wanted to pay tribute to it by publishing this edition with unpublished material so far in Spain, as well as with the censorship file.
For those who do not know this work yet, "Three sad tigers" brings together characters that resemble a collection of cameos (not portraits) from Dorian Gray, his characters are not these men and women, not even "the misadventures of a few" in which he saw "a story, a myth."
His heroes are nostalgia, literature, the city, music and the night and, sometimes, that current form of art that seems to bring them together in one single thing: cinema. The Havana, insular and urban night is the protagonist of this novel and every night they want to merge or merge into the lonely, long night of the book, which at the end begins to dawn, slow and revealing.
"Three sad tigers" It was published by Seix Barral in 1967 and obtained the Short Library Prize in 1964.
"The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão" by Martha Batalha
Seix Barral has bet heavily on this debutant Brazilian writer, since the book that concerns us, "The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão"it's his first novel. And we believe that it is a wise bet because of what some newspapers and magazines say about it:
- "One of the best books of this year", The globe.
- "It tastes like classic", Brazilian Post Office.
- "A fun novel with a clear feminist message", VPRO.
- "An extraordinary new voice", Vogue.
- "A contemporary Madame Bovary", Smoke.
- “Good literature helps us to see our daily lives in perspective. This is the case of The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão. A simple book in form and rich in content », Economic value.
- «With lightness and irony, and under the curtain of profound historical and social changes, Batalha presents us with two
women full of life, capable of opening a crack in our hearts. Around them, a multitude of
picturesque characters, in the best tradition of magical realism », The Republic. - "Readers who love South American literature will clearly recognize a background rumor called 'magical realism'", Grace.
The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmão is the story of two sisters and their place in the world. Guida is independent, nonconformist, daring and free. Eurydice is a wife, mother, cook and dreamer. Both, vital and rebellious, take different paths, but neither of them is happy with their choice. It will take a long time for them to realize that happiness always appears unexpectedly.
This debut novel is a song of love and respect for our mothers and grandmothers: invisible women who could not
star in your own life. Martha Batalha gets, with great sense of humor and rich personal language, equip
by word and return the magic to all those women with strong backs and broken dreams.
As extra information we will add that it will soon be taken to the cinema. For sale from February 7.
"A bookstore in Berlin" by Françoise Frenkel
"A bookstore in Berlin" it is the only book that the Polish writer Françoise Frenkel wrote. "That night I understood why I had been able to endure the oppressive atmosphere of recent years in Berlin ... I loved my bookstore as a woman loves, with true love", writes Françoise Frenkel in what was her only novel. Following publication, the fate of this exceptional and admirable storyteller was never heard from again, whose incredible story, praised by Patrick Modiano as "an impressive testimony," was rediscovered in 2015.
In 1921, Françoise Frenkel, a young woman with a passion for French language and culture, founded the first bookstore
Berlin French, La Maison du Livre, a meeting and discussion place for book lovers. With the
Rise of Nazism the climate in the capital changes and Françoise must escape to Paris, where she will begin her journey
to flee Jewish persecution.
On sale from February 7.
"Mac and his setback" by Enrique Vilas-Matas
In this work, Enrique Vilas-Matas destroys the myth of the need for one's own voice while reworking tradition to demonstrate precisely that he is the owner of one of the most personal voices on the contemporary literary scene; deals in depth with literary creation without renouncing humor; extols normality through an eccentric and peculiar protagonist, and pretends improvisation in a masterful novel that contains great finds, thanks to a structure capable of turning on itself like a sock and leaving the reader with their mouths open until its perfect ending .
Mac has just lost his job and walks daily through El Coyote, the Barcelona neighborhood where he lives. Is obsessed
with his neighbor, a famous and renowned writer, and he feels annoyed every time he ignores him. One day he hears him talking to the bookseller about his debut feature Walter and his setback, a youth book full of incongruous passages, and Mac, who caresses the idea of writing, then decides to modify and improve this first story that his neighbor would prefer to leave in oblivion.
On sale February 14.
And tomorrow, the next and last article of these literary novelties referred to this time to the month of March. Are you looking forward to it? We do!