From Sara Barquinero to Paul Auster and from the crimes of Rebecca Makkai to the monsters of Emil Ferris, the cultural supplement of EL PAÍS proposes a selection of novels in narrative, essays, poetry, and comics for the great feast of literature.
It is not about the quarrel between the classics and the moderns, nor the struggle between apocalyptic and integrated. Maybe there is something generational. Maybe we have the opportunity to live in two interconnected worlds. Because the list of the 30 books recommended by Babelia's critics does reveal the coexistence in our literary system of two angles that define culture in Spain today: quality contemporary classics and brilliant explorers of new sensibilities.
On the new releases tables for Book Day there are narrators who have been accompanying readers for years: Landero, Aramburu and Auster, as well as novelists like the Canadian Margaret Laurence, who had not yet been translated, but was a reference author in her literary tradition. Or lucid spectators of our present for years: the humanity of Leila Guerriero when portraying her characters, the irony of Sergi Pàmies' stories to think about the contemporary subject, the ambition to understand Enric Juliana in his articles.
