“My alarm clock is my age.” said the old man. “Why do old people wake up so early? It will be because the day lasts longer?” Immense. We can’t find other adjectives to describe such a masterpiece. The stylistic code is immense, the concrete weight of some reasoning and indirect reflections to which the reader is led. We do not discover anything new, many others have written it before us, but falling in love with...
“He paused and smiled with a kind of velvety sweetness, more effective than any threatening aggression.” S.S. Van Dine is one of the founding fathers of the modern detective story genre. A pillar that represents a mandatory reading for those who want to approach the world of yellow. The main protagonist of his novels is Philo Vance, a character from New York high society, without a clear job but with an important financial availability, who...
“I’m not a Communist, – he replied. – But I’m offended. Offended and indignant for a long time.” The book focuses on the events that accompany the difficult life of Harry Morgan, a fisherman-trafficker brought to his knees by the economic crisis, which struck the United States during the thirties of the last century. Harry Morgan is the mirror of a good portion of the American society of that time, which found itself overnight without...
