POST 7 > My favorite book

Hi everybody!

I'm so excited for today's topic because it's something I like a lot and that would be: books!
Since I enter to university early this year I've been reading a lot (really a lot) and that'd be because of the huge amount of books the university have on its library. I've spent that much time on reading that I have put academic responsibilities on hold just to finish a novel I had to return the next day to the library -I know, that isn't good either, but I'd read so many good books this year!-.

Now, more about what I like to read, I should say that my preferences on books have shifted this year as I got to read many different types of texts. I started the year by reading a lot of classical literature, mostly ancient greek texts such as philosophy dialogs, dramatic plays or poetry and at first I thought that I wouldn't like it but I fall in love with it! It's just so beautifully made and have an atemporal felling of charming. Then I got to read plenty of poetry, medieval one (great but not my favorite), Latin American verses (probably the best of all times), romantic European sonnets (beautiful and classical) and even postmodern poetry (of which I didn't understand a single verse). That been said I have to say that my favorite writer isn't greek nor a poet but a novelist, his name is Albert Camus and is an Algerian writer of the XXth century famous for his novels such as The Stranger (El extranjero), The plague (La peste) or his essay The myth of Sisyphus. 

To complicate this even more, my favorite book isn't written by Camus (even so I love all his books) but by another french-speaking writer: André Malraux's Man's Fate (La condición humana). This novel take place on pre revolutionary China and all the uncertainty climate on which the people of Shanghai lived. The book changes of narrator constantly so that the story can be observed from different angles: from the view of a communist terrorist, the one of a french capitalist on the city or from the perspective of a woman felling betrayed by all sides. I won't get on more detail so you can go read it yourself!

Lastly I wanted to talk you about the last book I read -that, by the way, I finish just a few hours ago- and it was Japanese novel Confessions of a Mask written by the talented Yukio Mishima. I'm not an expert on Nipponic literature but I've read a lot of Mishima's work an he is amazing. The way asiatic writers describe things is beautiful and every sentence fells tenderly place on the pages, I always end up calm after reading them. It's great to know how different cultures express their views of the world on the wonderful art of writing.

See you next week!