The Great Gatsby, The inexhaustible pursuit of pure love (*)

There are those who choose mentors just to then invent the traits of the character they shall become, passionately modeling and shaping these traits with unlikely tools. In the crime literature, an outstanding character that successfully accomplishes such a transformation is Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s legendary character first introduced in The Talented Mr Ripley  (published in…

Killing Commendatore: Homage to The Great Gatsby(*)

“So, again my friends, everything is caveat emptor in the Universe” says one day the Commendatore, a tiny but intimidating two feet height being that seems to have come out of a cereal box, when he was talking with the narrator of Killing Commendatore (1). This 681 page book, the fourteenth novel by Haruki Murakami,…

La oposición peso/levedad

Milan Kundera, La Insoportable Levedad del Ser En su libro póstumo de ensayos, Seis Propuestas para el Próximo Milenio (1989), el novelista y ensayista italiano Italo Calvino dedicó el primer ensayo a la Levedad. En el comienzo de ese ensayo, el autor hace una defensa de la levedad, argumentando que ésta es preferible al peso…