After "Golo syndrome", several people have asked authors of the generation of 70. I share a list of novels and cuentarios that I liked a lot. Sure I miss one, so it's not a top anything but an arbitrary list. The list certainly is not exhaustive. I liked more. So I ask if anyone knows I do not see your book, no plan is put into jug of Tlaquepaque (or Amozoc). I tell you honestly if your books I like or not if you send me an email. I have to say. Yes there is a gender imbalance. This is, of course, the general overrepresentation of men in the Mexican literary life, which is a sadness. And yes I have read other writers of the generation, but some of the most prominent books I liked a lot. The judgments expressed in the novels are on the fly and what occurs to me as I write. Of course, all merit a careful discussion.
1. José Ramón Ruisánchez. Nothing Cruel. Was
Disclaimer: The author is a friend of mine. This novel is a wonderful exploration of expatriate academic, brilliantly executed, very original in his prose.
2. Bernardo Fernández BEF. El llanto de los niños muertos. Tierra Adentro.
Me cuesta mucho trabajo escoger un libro de BEF, porque todos me encantan. Creo que es, para mí, el mejor escritor nacido en esta década. Me quedo con el libro donde lo encontré, una brillante exploración de los géneros de la ciencia ficción y la literatura punk. Mi favorito, el cuento steampunk, único en México hasta donde sé, sobre Maximiliano y Juárez.
3. Alain-Paul Mallard. Evocación de Matthias Stimberg (quizá lo deletreo mal). Interzona (Edición original de Heliópolis)
Una obra maestra. Un librito brillante, finish, written with great perfection and very enjoyable.
4. Iris García Cuevas. Sight. Desert Heart. Inland
A dazzling storyteller, high literary quality. Tales round, perfect, well written and even exciting.
5. Gabriel Wolfson. The remains of the banquet. Books Magenta.
Perhaps the strongest two novels (the other is below). Beautifully built, excellent prose, a fascinating aesthetic proposal.
6. Yuri Herrera. Signals that precede the end of the world. Peripheral.
A verbal achievement unparalleled Recent Mexican literature.
7. Nadia Villafuerte. I love latex heaven? Inland
cuentario A gorgeous, well thought out, a critical force impressive.
8. Montagner Eduardo Anguiano. All this great truth. Alfaguara.
Not only is the great gay novel of the last thirty years, at the height of The Vampire of Colonia Roma. It is also a book of superb craftsmanship, which can be read, intense.
9. Tryno Maldonado. Red Vienna. Joaquin Mortiz. Everything
not like his book on Anagram's all I like this one novel. A magnificent book, elegant, a sample of the best Mexican cosmopolitisimo.
10. Guadalupe Nettel. The host. Logo
A novel intelligent and revealing.
11. Albaro Sandoval. Mud in the Holy Land. Tierra Adentro.
A superb novel, which faces the reader relentlessly, constantly.
12. Antonio Ortuño. The Japanese garden. Pages foam.
Although best known for his novels, here Ortuño shows his true literary invoice.
13. Pesina July. Guilty of anything. Tierra Adentro.
Another magnificent book. A force incredible.
14. Ruy Xoconostle. Pixie in the suburbs. Joaquin Mortiz.
Although I do not know what happened after this book and the next, Xoconostle is a true reader of the neoliberal whirlwind. A great novel, unappreciated, that should be revisited.
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