Just to follow the trend, here are 10 books that I liked this year (no ranking, the 10 are different) followed by some special disappointment. English literature in general bore me, so I apologize for the huge amount of references to literature in English.
1. Out of sight, heart desert. Iris Garcia
Without doubt the best book of fiction published in Mexico in 2010. Master stories, relevant, spectacularly well written and a great narrative tension.
2. Orfa Perra Brava Alarcón
A book that covers an important symbolic hole in the space of the novel and does it with great bill.
3. Living in the End Times, Slavoj Zizek
A demonstration of why Zizek is being the most urgent and provocative thinker in contemporary philosophy. The section on labor problems in Marxism is undoubtedly the most brilliant philosophical reflection of the year.
4. Bring on the Books for Everybody by Jim Collins
An important reminder of the public culture of literature that in Mexico there.
5. Song of remoteness of Juan Manuel Roca
Although it was not published this year, is a book of poetry that marked me as a reader, like to hear after the Monterrey conference. Tremendous, intense, no doubt a sign of life of poetry.
6. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
A bright, beautiful love letter to literature, the rusofilia, to personal obsessions. An example of how to write a literary essay.
7. Changing my mind of Zadie Smith
Another great book of essays and another example of brilliance prosísitica.El text on contemporary narrative undoubtedly a critical reflection on the state of the novel today.
8. The Program was Mark McGurl.
A tour de force the academic criticism and a book that says both the system and its influence MFA in fiction, as in similar systems (ie the Fonca)
9. Joyce Carol Oates Sourland
In fact, my favorite author at this time and a brilliant example of and relevance of realism.
10 Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel.
Undoubtedly the most interesting poet in English today. And the disappointments
:
Freedom of Jonathan Franzen
A minor disappointment. I liked the first time, but there are parts that fall out of the hands and thinking it is not as masterful as The Corrections
The Pregnant Window of Martin Amis and boring
Agrio
Escape The Incredible Adam Thirlwell
follow an author one of the most important essays on the literary tradition with a novel as shallow and idiotic.
Dublinesca of Enrique Vila-Matas
sad when genius becomes formula. Also, Who would think to ask at this point Joyce as a means of literary renewal? After bartlebies Shandi and is more of a setback. White
night
Ricardo Piglia
Another lead. Shows that the Argentines, but Washington Cucurto should not write about Caribbean color. Full of unfortunate racial expressions. Solar
Ian McEwan
An example of how to take the most important issue of our time and use it to write a nonsense of epic proportions. Omega Point
Don DeLillo
overwritten, pretentious and boring.
