SPANISH & CATALAN LANGUAGE AUTHORS
NARRATIVA
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Xuan BELLO
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Dolors BORAU
- Javier CALVO
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Pedro FEIJOO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Antonio GARCÍA ÁNGEL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Menchu GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lourdes IGLESIAS
- Sebastià JOVANI
- Use LAHOZ
- Sonia LAREDO
- José Carlos LLOP
- Pedro MAIRAL
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Miguel MENA
- Cristina MORALES
- Fabiola MORALES
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Emma RIVEROLA
- Félix ROMEO
- Fernando ROYUELA
- Màrius SERRA
- Jordi SOLER
- Ramon SOLSONA
- Andrés TRAPIELLO
- David TRUEBA
- Ángela VALLVEY
- Ignacio VIDAL-FOLCH
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI
Pedro MAIRAL
Salvatierra
El Aleph, 2010
(Spain, El Aleph / Latin America, Emecé); (France, Payot Rivages); (Germany, Hanser); (Italy, Bollati Boringhieri); ( The Netherlands, Athenaeum); (Turkey, Sel Publishing); (World English, The New Vessel)
At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse-riding accident. At twenty, he began to secretly paint a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed life in his coastal village. After the death of Salvatierra, his children travel to Buenos Aires to deal with their inheritance: an enormous apartment packed with painted rolls…one of which is apparently missing… An intrigue of family secrets that are buried in the past and cast their shadows on the present.
A impressive novel, sensual and absorbing, built on a labyrinth of mysteries and revelations.» J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia
«Woven with a delicate symbolism, it can be read with such ease that the reader suspects every detail is designed with careful premeditation to construct a plot that wants to be more than a simple narration of events.» Arturo García Ramos, ABC
«Pedro Mairal is one of the most interesting writers of contemporary Hispanic-American literature (…) shows the talent of an extraordinary writer.» Marco Kunz, Quimera
«Talent, observational skills, charm and a sense of humor are put to the service of a crisp and wise narrative. All shows that you can tell a consistent story, of powerful and epic pitch, in 140 pages.» Ernesto Calabuig, El Mundo
«The knowing lack of stridency with which Mairal wrote this beautiful novel is what will surely make it a text to feed the emotions of any reader.» Pablo Makovsky, Crítica de la Argentina
«Books like this reconcile us to the new national literature. Brief but intense, this novel combines the delicate visual arts with literature. Both for its form and its content, this is a highly recommended work.» Guillermo Belcore, La prensa
«Perhaps Mairal’s brand of literature has something to do with the austerity of forms and the idea that good writing is still possible.» Mauro Libertella, Radar Libros
«Salvatierra is read in one sitting, with the pleasant sensation that the reading flows at the same rate as the omnipresent river in the text – calmly. This novel talks, in the friendly first person, about the possible of meeting oneself through ones family experiences in a provincial setting that is so real you can almost smell it, using modern, precise, and at the same time poetic language.» Paula Mahler, Revista Ñ, Clarín
«Pedro Mairal is a diabolical writer, in the league of the greats, like Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato… This book is a literary cataclysm.» Martine Laval, Telerama
«I cannot find anything bad to read by Mairal: he always ends up surprising me with an almost unique classicism of his generation. » Quintín, La lectora provisoria
«A narrative that functions like a mechanism of extraordinary engineering.» Antonio Jiménez Morato
«This story offers an emotional view of memory and the discourses that create it. The simplicity and elegance of its style, added to its literary skill, make this novel by Pedro Mairal a necessity.» Diego Rojas, Revista Veintitres
«The mid-tone and subtle content that swings between genius and simplicity are the elements that do nothing more than confirm what could already be guessed from the very first pages of Salvatierra: narrative maturity by Pedro Mairal.» Matias Capelli, Los Inrockuptibles
«Mairal vibrates the innermost fibers with unexpected resonance.» Bruno Arpaia, Liaisons letteraire
«Surprising symbiosis between matter and form. Pedro Mairal is my personal discovery of this publishing year.» J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País