was on my first trip to Spain in 2000 when, walking around the center of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcame to a library and focused on the English publications. Perez-Reverte had heard her love of books of adventure, mystery and action. Of good-looking women and lonely men, rude and fatally human, capable of love and loss in the hands of those women cold. But until then had not read anything.
That time was accompanied My mother, who was then living in Barcelona, \u200b\u200band very comprehensive, stoic endured all the time I took one at a time browsing hundreds of English fiction titles. Until you reach the shelf where the author titles piled Cartagena. Neither his pocket enough money to take all previously published so I had to be selective. Weighing desires and ultimately decided by the most beguiling: The Fencing Master (1988), The Flanders Panel (1990) and The Club Dumas (1993). And I took them with me to Peru. Not daring to open their pages will not be to throw down my last tourist days in Europe to shut in a room to read.
then started by The Fencing Master. Had decided to read by year of publication [1]. And I lasted only one night. I did not sleep, of course, because there was no way. The detective story of cheating and betrayal, enriched with the language, slang well learned the art of the thrusts. The main character, Jaime Astarloa, like everyone else succumbs to the beautiful Adela de Otero and comes out in the last chapter with an unsuspecting scene what it is: a teacher. Paper round.
was a long time to take the next book. And when I did, I could not quit. The Flanders was that Perez-Reverte became an author in the world, translated into dozens of languages. Julia [2], a young art restorer is wrapped in a mystery when he discovers in a Flemish painting a chess game that involves a crime 500 years ago. That same game is played in this by a mysterious character, and every time you eat a piece, a figure close to Julia dies. So you have to play chess for his life. The plot and the knot is simply extraordinary. While clouding the outcome, as if he had arrived exhausted that part of history. Even
well, I came to the club Dumas much sooner than the earlier book. Again the mystery, history, the many traps and enemies. A hunter of books, "Lucas Corso [3], leads us into an adventure story and mystery, again. A colorful sign onto an inveterate bibliophile's knowledge of Perez-Reverte. An anti-hero, like most actors revertianos, which survives, giving face and succumb to the charms of a woman and lily. The best of the three, no doubt. A book that led me to childhood, The Three Musketeers, the serial books, the years he lived the adventure books like the only thing that existed in the world.
was already after making me more books by the author. So I got a skin drum (1995). Perhaps the book with the best start I've read in many years. A hacker has entered without being discovered Vatican systems and put in check the top of the hierarchy of the clergy. A church in Seville bloodstain in order to survive and a priest while specialist on detective gets mixed up in intrigue and murder. Again the tandem revertiano-adventure, police, mystery, the order of the author with new ideas and clever scenes that make it a perfect storyteller. And again the upper node to the outcome, the book is deflated in the last minute.
Now, as a reader I was never to be entertained only with the story, does not mean that the new setback was sufficient reason to abandon it. If there followed the adventures of Captain Alatriste, which I have written this blog . And from which, moreover, I have yet to read the last three deliveries. Pending task.
And mainly because after a book is a great medium. Capitalized. One that demonstrates research, rigor, management of watchmaking history, marine knowledge, his past as a journalist, and especially the use of language, jargon and empathy. That's great ability to get into the skin of his characters, know them thoroughly, understand and develop them. All in one: La reina del sur (2002). Surpassing fiction, once again, to reality. The story of a Mexican drug dealer who became famous in southern Spain and Perez-Reverte immortalized in the novel.
This year I've just reread The Flanders for professional reasons [5] and first read The Horseman, which I did a brief comment in the notes to this post, and The Nautical Chart (2001), also carried the movies this year. Here perhaps the best character built by the author: Coy, a sailor without a ship ready to do whatever it takes to return to sea. The alter ego of all the characters revertianos, a lonely man who has nothing to lose in this life, and so human that falls back into the nets of a beautiful woman. The best of the clichés. Repeats, but not boring.
few days ago I learned that the English author was awarded a prize. Far from his literary activity, Perez-Reverte was chosen at the time of giving the Scorpion Prize here in Vigo, ideas for allegedly "sexist" and "advocating violence against women" emerge their articles. She is not the first time I've heard criticism about his ideas or that of other writers. Nor do I expect my favorite writers are coated in sugar and are all peace and love. I'm interested in what they write is something that amuses me and I further open mind. With that have earned my respect. The rest ... I'm not the one to judge them. ----------------------------------------------
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[1] actually his first book was a historical novel that I have just read this year to see it on the shelf in the library of my father: The Horseman (1986). Perhaps because his first literary work, the weakest, not bad, all I've read so far. [2] A very young Kate Beckinsale (Pearl Harbor in the British film version directed by Jim McBride - Uncovered , original English-not as successful as expected. [3] Johnny Depp always superb in the role of Dean Corso in the film version by Roman Polanski, The Ninth Gate entitled . [4] would have preferred a thousand times repeated role to Johnny Depp in a book by Perez-Reverte to see Viggo Mortensen, simply because I believe it. [5] lot of it is that Writer Delivery will soon appear on the web.
