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Gabriel Montes

Gabriel Montes writes about contemporary literature with an eye on how books intersect with everyday life. He is especially drawn to Spanish fiction and enjoys finding in novels the same questions that appear on the street or in casual conversation. He lives in Barcelona and has long contributed to cultural magazines. His style is clear and approachable, more that of a curious reader than a distant critic.


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1984 by George Orwell: how reality is manufactured

A close reading of 1984 that follows how power trims language, trains memory to accept revision, and domesticates fear, while arguing that small acts of attention and ordinary tenderness still make a real breach.


How Poe Builds Tension in The Fall of the House of Usher

A journey through the invisible score with which Poe sustains panic in The Fall of the House of Usher: a rational narrator narrowing the frame, an architecture that foretells its end, a tempo that turns waiting into fear, and a choreography of echoes and silences that makes the collapse inevitable.


The Architecture of The Metamorphosis: How Kafka Builds the Monster

The architecture of The Metamorphosis: three acts, thresholds and repetitions narrowing choices to the end, with Grete and the household as engines of change under debt and shame.


Franz Kafka: between minimal life and overflowing literature

Franz Kafka lived a quiet, constrained life yet left behind a body of work that exposed the absurd and fragile condition of modern existence.


The Useless Art of Underlining for the Joy of Reading

This article reflects on how the culture of productivity has invaded even our bookshops and proposes a simple yet subversive gesture: reading slowly, underlining without reason and giving the book back its living and unpredictable disorder.


The eternal duel between James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for the soul of the modern novel

A journey through the contrasting visions of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, two authors who revolutionised the portrayal of consciousness and forever transformed the modernist novel.