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,…

Revisitando El Último Magnate

De todas las heroínas que Francis Scott Fitzgerald creó en sus novelas—entre las cuales recordamos por su encanto, inteligencia y poder de seducción a Daisy Buchanan del Great Gatsby, y a Nicole Diver de Tender is the Night—, Kathleen Moore es la más elusiva, escurridiza y enigmática. Una de las notas que escribió Fitzgerald sobre…