El quadern de Nicolaas Kleen El cuaderno de Nicolaas Kleen
Jaume Benavente
Editorial Columna / Roca Editorial
1ª edició, juliol de 2010
Gènere: Novel·la negra
358 pgs. / 301 pgs.
ISBN: 9788466412858 (cat.)
ISBN: 9788499181394 (Cast.)
Many times I have wondered if Marc Shepherd is aware of the benefits which brought the genre when he published Catalan Poor woman (The Granada / RBA). While Spain landed in the first volume of the trilogy Millennium (2008), by Stieg Larsson, and thus began the boom of detective novels, also featured the work of Mark Shepherd, who represent a revitalization of the genre in Catalonia. Since then, our author has passed on as Larsson, everything that has been published so far has been compared to his work (that of "not bad, but Poor woman ..."). With
The notebook Nicolaas Kleen, James Benavente opens a new door in black literature in Catalan atmosphere and demonstrating an ability to recreate these scenes that recall the style of author Swedish current as Camilla Läckberg. Benavente places the action in Amsterdam and invents a new character, Inspector
Batelaar in Marja, who investigated the death, a pension of slums in the city , a young girl that nobody seems to know nothing. Batelaar, police learned with passion for art, rather shy and marked by the murder of his brother, will also investigate the gradual disappearance some of the closest friends of the dead. That and the silence of the little known information that can help make this event one of the most complicated Batelaar.
Benavente proposes a fully networked story without ups and downs, and with well defined characters. Marja Batelaar has enough strength to continue with a series of different titles, and indeed, everything indicates that it will. The quality of the prose, the literary world that builds Benavente in Amsterdam, and especially the fact that the author does not need subplots surface (which in many novels, only serve to fill pages), makes the notebook Nicolaas Kleen door perfect access to a range of Catalan authors, although not so well known or just starting because they have sufficient coverage, call the attention of us all. If we make the effort to know the new names of the genre, we find surprises as good as James Benavente.
The notebook Nicolaas Kleen, James Benavente opens a new door in black literature in Catalan atmosphere and demonstrating an ability to recreate these scenes that recall the style of author Swedish current as Camilla Läckberg. Benavente places the action in Amsterdam and invents a new character, Inspector
Batelaar in Marja, who investigated the death, a pension of slums in the city , a young girl that nobody seems to know nothing. Batelaar, police learned with passion for art, rather shy and marked by the murder of his brother, will also investigate the gradual disappearance some of the closest friends of the dead. That and the silence of the little known information that can help make this event one of the most complicated Batelaar. Benavente proposes a fully networked story without ups and downs, and with well defined characters. Marja Batelaar has enough strength to continue with a series of different titles, and indeed, everything indicates that it will. The quality of the prose, the literary world that builds Benavente in Amsterdam, and especially the fact that the author does not need subplots surface (which in many novels, only serve to fill pages), makes the notebook Nicolaas Kleen door perfect access to a range of Catalan authors, although not so well known or just starting because they have sufficient coverage, call the attention of us all. If we make the effort to know the new names of the genre, we find surprises as good as James Benavente.
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