The 8 best books by Fernando Sánchez Dragó (essential)

The most outstanding works of a veteran writer and intellectual from Madrid.

Fernando Sánchez Dragó is a Spanish writer and journalist who received his PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Madrid.

After receiving his doctorate, he became a professor at the Cervantes Institute and later a professor of literature, language and history in several countries: Japan, Senegal or Morocco; tasks that he combined with narrative and poetry and with his work as a correspondent for several national newspapers. His concern for political issues led him to be an activist, which caused his imprisonment by Franco's authorities and, later, his exile.

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Sánchez Dragó's most outstanding books

Below you can find a list of his best books, along with an explanation of each title. If you want to know more about any of the following works of Fernando Sánchez Dragó, you can access Amazon through the links provided and order the book that best suits your needs..

1. The path of the heart

The theme of this book is strongly autobiographical.. It is about a man who decides to undertake a journey to the East in search of wisdom, spirituality, the encounter with himself and the happiness that he is unable to find in the Western world. He leaves behind the woman with whom he has lived great experiences and illusions, but his idea is to meet her again after a while. In the meantime he sends her letters and tells her how his journey is progressing.

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2. Parallel Deaths

Parallel Deaths is another autobiographical text by Sánchez Dragó. It is a book that narrates the last days of his father's life, the journalist Fernando Sánchez Monreal, who was murdered by the "nationalists" during the Nationalists.who was assassinated by the "nationalists" during the civil war. However, this text deals with other assassinations committed by both sides, for example, Federico García Lorca or José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Falange Española. A highly recommendable historical text.

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3. Gargoris and Habidis

This work, originally published in 1978 and edited by the Grupo Planeta is considered a literary explosion and a philosophical transgression that tells the history of post-Franco Spain in a single volume. It is a peculiar text like few others, original, poetic, inspiring, unconventional and somewhat polemic, in which the author makes clear his political views.

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4. The Path of the Left Hand

The Path of the Left Hand is an essayistic and philosophical text, which was published in 2002. In this work Sánchez Dragó's ideas are summarized and his philosophy is synthesized in the form of commandments, usually with their explanation.usually with his explanation. His thoughts are expressed with a transgressive touch, liberating and opposed to modernity, with more oriental and spiritual than western dyes. A discourse that invites to ethics and wisdom.

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5. The Labyrinth Test

This work was awarded the Planeta Prize in 1992 and is certainly worth reading.. It is a beautiful story that tells the exploits of a Spanish detective in his fifties. In its pages you will find all the ingredients of a novel in the purest Indiana Jones style: mystery, tension, adventure, uncertainty, ambushes, traitors, exoticism, tyrants, political and religious struggles. A work not to be missed.

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6. Sitting in the Cheerful Stern

Sitting in the Cheerful Stern is part of his tetralogy "La Dragontea", which he began with Diary of a Warrior (1992), On Shiva's Wire (1997), y The Road to Ithaca (1998). Undoubtedly, éis the freshest text in the collection, and much of his life is collected in the four volumes of La Dragonteaespecially the last one.

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7. Magical History of the Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago is a well-known route in Spain, as it is traveled by pilgrims from all over the world to reach the city of Santiago de Compostela (in Galicia), where the relics of the apostle St. James the Greater are honored. An extraordinary book in which Sánchez Dragó creates a story from the beginning of the road to Santiago de Compostela and traps the reader along the way. and traps the reader along its marvelous and fantastic journey. I have never done the Camino de Santiago, but if I ever do I will take this book with me.

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8. Soseki: Immortal and Tiger

The fact that Fernando Sánchez Dragó has written a novel about the adventures of a cat may come as a shock at first, especially after the texts to which it was written.especially after the texts to which he had accustomed us. However, this work will not disappoint the reader, who will find in it a style that is perhaps different, but full of talent. The text is written in honor of a cat that only lived with the writer for a couple of years, but Soseki must have had something for him to dedicate a work to it.

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