‘Write,’ he said
A fine parting injunction to a friend you are seeing off at the train station. Julián did as he was...
Moth-ridden masterpieces
The Shadow of the Wind assembles a posse of 'bibliophile knights' who hang out in cafés to save the moribund...
Book as mirror II
One of the most reassuring and surprising insights I found in reading Harold Bloom's literary criticism, was the realization that...
Dead languages or dormant minds?
There are some marvelous characters in The Shadow of the Wind, several of them highly opinionated and articulate orators, who...
An accent thick enough to…
Bernarda is a wonderful housekeeper to the protagonists and when they employ a tramp to work in their bookshop, he...
Television as Antichrist
Again, one of the articulate, adorable and utterly opinionated characters in which Ruiz Zafón's book abounds. The doom-laden consequences of...
A place to get lost in
My idea of a bookshop or library to get lost in ... though not exclusively. I also love some of...
Presents are for those who give
A generous dismissal of a recipient's need to feel worthy of a gift. Ruiz Zafón's book is full of generous...
Riding bicycles and darning socks
An irreverent assessment of anarchists, though having never knowingly met one, I can't speak for its accuracy. Maybe historically there...
Book as mirror I
A great riposte, of course, and true to a large extent. Having dismissed a book, it sometimes happens that I...
Technicolor-green fields
Fermín is a character who has done time as a tramp, and perhaps because of the hunger he's suffered, he...
On keeping secrets
An intriguing definition of what makes a secret worth keeping - not the secret itself, but those from whom it...
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