For years, decades and centuries, the human being has been able to fall in love through the pages of the best book. And it is that literature has always been the artistic current that, perhaps, has idealized the feeling of love like no other, one as real as it is dreamy that we propose to explore again through the following selection of romantic novels Actualidad Literatura.
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
If there is a romance novel, it is undoubtedly Austen's great masterpiece. Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice not only meant the appearance of one of the first romantic comedies in the history of literature, but an exercise in feminism and empowerment through the eyes of its protagonist, Elizabeth bennet. A young woman who, unlike some sisters obsessed with marrying a wealthy man, prefers to continue exploring her feelings, especially when Mr. Darcy enters the scene. A unique work whose 2005 adaptation starring Keira Knightley this story as sweet as it is essential raised even more to Olympus.
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Like water for chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
When many thought that the magical realism It had been relegated to its golden age in the 60s and 70s, the Mexican Laura Esquivel arrived with a rose novel in 1989 that would help revive the magic of this typically Latin American genre. Set in a Mexican hacienda in Piedras Negras during the time of the Mexican Revolution, Como agua para chocolate counts the love story of Tita, the youngest of three daughters (and therefore forced to remain in the care of her parents) and Pedro, promised to Tita's sister. All this, wrapped in the flavors that evokes a Mexican gastronomy more than present throughout history, which had a second part, Tita's diary, published in 2016.
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The Rumor of the Surf, by Yukio Mishima
One favorite novels of this author is set far, far away, more specifically in a small island in the Okinawa archipelago, in Japan, to which light and civilization barely reach. A poetic scene of toris, forests and fishermen in which the love story of two teenagers that they will have to fight against the social norms and their existential conditions in the confines of the world. Pure prose and descriptions from the hand of the genius Mishima, himself one of the most controversial writers of the XNUMXth century.
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Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
In 1847, for a woman to be the author of a novel was not a fully socially accepted reality.. This was the main reason that would lead Emily Brontë to publish Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. What he did not expect was that this would become one of the great classics in the history of English literature. Its innovative structure and the story of love and passion, of hatred and revenge, were enough to elevate the work of the sister of the same author of ...
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Yes, Emily's sister also gave us another of the stories that add to any selection of romance novels, more specifically Jane Eyre. Also published in 1847, this time under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre covers the life of a young woman who after a childhood raised in a residence for girls decides to become the governess of Mr. Rochester's family, who will fall in love with. Without a doubt, one of the best romance novels ever, adapted several times to the big screen.
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Seda, by Alessandro Baricco
Published in 1996, Seda became a great publishing success thanks to the good work of its writer, the Italian Baricco. A story set in the XNUMXth century, more specifically in an exotic japan countryIn which They meet a French merchant named Hervé Joncour, in search of seine worms through which to supply the textile industry in his hometown, and a mysterious Japanese who does not understand your language. A short novel that will delight anyone who loves travel with extra sugar.
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Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Considered as one of the best-selling books in history, Gone with the Wind was published in 1936 and became a best-seller, thanks in part to the prestige of its author, Margaret Mitchell, one of the first women to have a column of her own in a newspaper in the southern United States. The one already known to all love-hate story between Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler in the middle of the American Civil War Not only did it earn Mitchell a Pulitzer, but it would inspire an adaptation released in 1939 and turned into one of the most lavish productions in movie history.
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Love in the Times of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
In the words of Gabo himself, what was his favorite work came in 1985 quickly becoming one of the most praised novels of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Set in a coastal city in Colombia (presumably Cartagena de Indias), the story tells as the protagonist with the love triangle formed by the marriage of Fermina Daza and Juvenal Urbino, and Florentino Ariza, a man madly in love with Fermina from the moment he met her. A unique novel that, just because of its irresistible ending, deserves to be read at least once in a lifetime.
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Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Yes, we know. Romeo and Juliet is not an ordinary novel, but not including it as a literary gem in this selection of romance novels would be sacrilege. Conceived as a tragedy in 1597, the love story between Romeo, son of the Montagues, and Juliet, daughter of the Capulets, in the Italian Verona It is not only part of the history of letters, but of a romantic myth fed for centuries thanks to the work of the great Shakespeare.
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