NON-FICTION NOVELTIES IN 2023

Two literary essays by Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa a book by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and the correspondence between Camus and María Casares stand out in the non-fiction book novelties in 2023.

In “The language of truth” (Seix Barral), the British Salman Rushdie explores what the works of leading authors, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty and Toni Morrison, mean to him; and he also reflects on current politics, freedom of expression and censorship or the literary canon.

There will be two other metaliterary novelties: “Writing as a knife” (Cabaret Voltaire), published in France in 2003, in which the recent Nobel Prize for Literature annie ernaux reflect on writing; Y “A barbarian in Paris” (Alfaguara), an anthology of texts from the Peruvian Vargas Llosa on French literature.

Between film criticism, film theory, literary reporting and memoirs, he moves “Film Meditations” (Reservoir Books), from the American Quentin Tarantino; while Debate will publish “Correspondence 1944-1959″, with the letters exchanged between the Frenchman Albert Camus and the Argentinean María Casares.

BIOGRAPHIES OF SOROLLA, WARHOL AND THE STONES IN 2023

Among the biographies are “How to change your life with Sorolla” (Lumen), by César Suárez; “Warhol” (Taurus), by Blake Gopnik; “Blood and oil” (Peninsula), about Mohamed bin Salman; “Goethe” (Harp), by Helena

Cortés; “The Stone Age” (Dome), by Lesley-ann Jones; “Tutankhamun” (Attic), by Joyce Tyldesley; “Audrey Hepburn” (Lunwerg); “Antonio Vega” (Espasa), by Magela Ronda; “My father, a Russian spy” (B), by Alejandra Suárez Barca; and “American Prometheus. Triumph and Tragedy”, by J. Robert Oppenheimer” (Debate), by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

History buffs will be able to read “Six Lessons in History” (Edhasa), by Valerio Massimo Manfredi; “Femina” (Attic), by Janina Ramirez, about forgotten medieval women; “The light of my eyes. Being a mother in the Middle Ages” (Taurus), by María Jesús Fuente Pérez; “Ukraine, crossroads of cultures” (Cliff), by Karl Schlögel; “Normans” (Critical), by Levi Roach; or “Last days in old Europe” (Cathedral), by Richard Bassett.

Related to environmental concern will be published “Cuestiones cadentes” (Salamander), by Margaret Atwood; and “Mills and Giants” (Errata Naturae), by Jaume Franquesa.

In the essay, a double novelty by Slavoj Zizek stands out, “Incontinence of emptiness” (Anagrama) and “Hegel and the connected brain” (Paidós); as well as “A country bathed in blood” (Seix Barral), by Paul Auster and the photographer Spencer Ostrander; and “On a flight of starlings” (Paidós), from the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 Giorgio Parisi.

Gastronomic novelties will be “The flavor of the family” (Planeta Gastro), by Mauro Colagreco; “Bread step by step” (Grijalbo Illustrated), by Ibán Yarza; “Breads” (Larousse), by Daniel Jordà; and “Cooking in the oven” (Salamander), by Rukmini Iyer.