Gustave Flaubert depicts in the novel Madame Bovary the tumultuous life of a multifaceted and complex character, whose waves fall throughout the book. Madame Bovary is the symbol of eternal moral decay, of human collapse and of unleashed senses. The beautiful young girl who becomes by a boring marriage Madame Bovary lives an exalted existence, [...]

The book is often acclaimed as one of the best novels ever written, from a very good reason: it really is. But, surprisingly, its incredible influence doesn’t come from being a perfect novel, but because of its small imperfections. We could say that it is rushed here and there, or even unfinished, and this is [...]

One of the definitions of art is to represent human activity in all its forms and at all levels. Following this thread of thought, Moby Dick is one of the best novels, because the American author Herman Melville was able to draw a perfect parallel between the tumultuous existence of the human spirit and the [...]

A novel has never managed to present better the change of an era than The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald capturing in his work the charm of the jazz era, and also its lowest points. The book captures the transformation of America in the late 1920s, when the promised land became for many young people [...]

There aren’t many books that can capture that unique world of childhood and keeps it forever, but The Chronicles of Narnia is one of those books. C. S Lewis’s books come from a better place and time where lions speak and people turn into dragons if they sleep on the pile of treasure. C.S. Lewis [...]

Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, the Haunted is a collection of human types, of vices and social taboos, which has the courage to put the finger on many bleeding wounds of contemporary society, thing which is revealed from the beginning by nicks in which the characters are hiding in order to write / tell stories. The author [...]

The novel Angels and Demons by Dan Brown was written before The Da Vinci Code and has many similarities with the latter, from the same main character, Robert Langdon, and the same 24 hours in which the action takes place, until the religious issue and ‘the saving of the situation’ with the symbols that Langdon [...]

To consider this book For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway just a novel of war would be a big mistake. Because an important part of the book is devoted to the relationship between Maria and Robert Jordan, to the love that is born between them and their attempt to adapt in a world [...]

This is one of the most exciting books and undoubtedly one of the most popular novels of Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo is the kind of book you hope not to end. The action of the book begins with the return of the young sailor Edmond Dantes in Marseille. Ambitious, coming from a [...]

This is a brilliant book, almost entirely for the way it is structured. Knowing that a story occurs in the way it is perceived, Faulkner divides The Sound and the Fury into four parts, each with a different narrator. The Modernism shows, among others, the interweaving of the two modes of exposure, the one at [...]