The Destruction, by Bret Easton Ellis, "is a new exercise in fictional autobiography and a crime novel provided with the procacy, satire and that desire for the profusion of details that are the trademark of the house, and, if you like, it is also a detailed map of Los Angeles," writes Javier Aparicio Maydeu in his review of the latest book by the author of America Psycho. Although the critic of Babelia affirms that perhaps, from now on, Ellis should be mentioned as the author of, instead of that myth of contemporary narrative, of The Destructions, that is how good he considers this story hard and dazzling.
Also noteworthy this week is Letters 1900-1920, a volume of almost a thousand pages that brings together the correspondence of James Joyce, of a frankness in keeping with the literary and moral philosophy of the Irish writer, and that reveals relevant vital features, such as his youthful poetic passion, his concern for money, despair in the face of literary failure or, in the case of letters addressed to Nora Barnacle, his erotic drive, expression of a dominant and overwhelming male desire.
Other books reviewed are the novella Three Lights, by Claire Keegan; Children's Literature, by Alejandro Zambra; the volume with the Complete Novels, by Ignacio Aldecoa, which brings together the titles El fulgor y la sangre, Con el viento solano, Gran Sol and Parte de una historia; the collection of poems Euforia, by Carlos Marzal; and the essays Everything, at All Hours, Everywhere, by Stuart Jeffries; and Arendt and Spain, by Agustín Serrano de Haro, who takes advantage of the brief passage of the thinker through the Peninsula in 1941 to review her opinion on the situation of Francoist Spain.
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