Moth, by Barcelona-born Alba Muñoz (1985), is our book of the week. This is a remarkable novel, halfway between a journalistic chronicle and an autobiographical story, which narrates the author’s experience when, having just finished her degree in Journalism, she undertook a series of trips to Bosnia to look for reports with which to deal in the job. There, in Sarajevo, she fell in love with Darko, an abuser, with whom she lived a story of desire and submission. And she collected multiple stories that years later she has transferred to this volume, in which the autobiographical and the journalistic feed each other, as Carlota Rubio states in her review.
In this special issue dedicated to the centenary of Kafka’s death, other reviewed books also stand out, such as The love of lonely menby Victor Heringer, “destined to become,” in the words of Marta Carnicero, “one of those rare word-of-mouth successes that, very occasionally, receive novels that deserve it”; The natural idea, by Maria Negroni, which brings together short texts about many characters who revealed the glorious disorder of the world while saying something essential about themselves; and Madonnas and whoresa comic by Nine Antico that composes a story of sexist domination and the trivialization of violence, accepted as natural, based on three real stories.
This week’s Babelia books section is completed with two interesting articles: an interview with the historian Eduardo Manzano Moreno, on the occasion of his book diverse Spain; and a report by the writer and professor of Classical Philology at the UCM David Hernández de la Fuente on the recent reinterpretations of classic heroines in modern literature, which bring new dimensions to the patterns and archetypes of the feminine experience of yesterday and today.
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