A wonderful story from the era of war

A mixture of drama, romance, science fiction and history allows the author to live in autobiographies, testimonies or fantastic stories, to know the human condition and ability to survive in hostile times.

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El storyboard de la película
El storyboard de la película que el director Alejandro Jodorowsky planeó hacer sobre la novela "Dune". EFE/Foto cedida por Christie's

We know that great events in human history have brought about great changes in culture. The works are created from the visions of artists, musicians and writers who leave testimonies about the world they lived with viewers and survivors of terror, death, destruction, barbarianism, which only war could do.Leave for the world.

Life is transformed and thousands of stories are born to be immortalized in writings that tell us about the society of time, the intensity of emotions, the human mind, love, greed, suspense, the catastrophe of the pulse for power, and the destructive speed.

In addition to the tone used to narrate wars throughout history, drama, romance, and divine confrontation, either in ancient Greece or due to the invasion of the Earth on Mars, the terrible scenes of the Holocaust, or the Chinese feudal society, literary works give light to the imagination of each era, evoking intense romances by their belief system, ambition, and way of obsessing over love like a savior.

In this time of conflict, we propose some books that have become famous for representing fantastic portraits, futuristic, emotional, exciting texts, intense and vivid texts. Beautiful and memorable, having in common the horrors of war.

Nine (1965)

If you thought it was an original movie, it wasn't; 'Dune' is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert in the form of a trilogy that tells the story of a future of more than 10,000 years in a powerful galactic empire with feudal structure in our galaxy. In 1966 he won the Hugo Prize, a contest that awards the best works of science fiction and fantasy, and in 1965 he stood out in the first edition of the Nebula Best Science Fiction Award.

To date, he has adapted two films in 1984 with the participation of singers Sting and Patrick Stewart. And in 2021, the novel has gained the highest popularity thanks to films inspired by the original, starring singers Zendaya, Timote Charlamé, Rebecca Ferguson, and Oscar, Isaac.

'The colonel has no one to write to him' (1961)

The story of Gabriel García Marquez, full of symbolism about the sadness, disappointment, and nostalgia of a veteran colonel who fought liberals in Colombia (1899-1902) and waited forever for his pension to be awarded. Under the direction of Arturo Lipstein, it has a critically acclaimed film adaptation.

Little Woman (1868)

This classic literature, authored by Louise May Alcott, tells the story of four girls who grew up between the needs, humility and life of society after undergoing a life change by losing many privileges while being a woman. We live the struggle of time to fulfill our dreams and know love.Within the framework of the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865.

He has made numerous adaptations on musical works, plays and big screens, including those directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1994. In 2019, Gillian Armstrong released another film adaptation directed by Susan Sanlandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, and Christian Bale. It consists of characters such as Theals Ronan, Florence Pew, Meryl Streep, and Timote Hal Charlame.

“Mouse” (1980)

This is a graphic novel that tells the story of a Pulitzer Prize-winning war. Art Spiegelman portrays Jews with rats and narrates terrible scenes of the Holocaust through a starring vignette.

'Wild Swan' (1991)

The story, captured in Chinese feudal society at the beginning of the 20th century, is told through the eyes of three women from the same family who were witnesses and protagonists of numerous contests, invasions and revolutions. The narrative begins with the grandmother of Jung Chang, the author of the work, a British writer born in China, and a woman who has experienced firsthand everything it means in the process of asserting women's rights, as well as people in general.

The War of the World (1898)

Written by British novelist Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells, this science fiction work describes the invasion of the Earth on Mars, also known as the first description of an alien invasion, and has had a great influence on the rich modification of ideas such as the subsequent story. Orson Welles, an actor and film director, who is a radio episode of the drama series 'The Mercury Theatre on the Air' (1977), listens When people thought it was a transmission of real events that were actually happening, confusion and Supervised and narrated with terrifying realism.

Originally, Wells's novel had numerous adaptations on various platforms: movies, radio shows, video games, cartoons, TV series and advertising campaigns.

(Iliad (8th century BC) C.)

This classic of ancient literature is a Greek epic, traditionally attributed to Homer, and has 15,693 verses, the plot of which lies in the deep wrath of Achilles and narrates the events that occurred during 51 days in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. Iliad and Odyssey were considered the most important compositions in ancient Greek literature, not only by the Greeks of the classical period, but also by later generations, and applied to various artistic forms, films, paintings, music, etc.

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