Jaime Fernández

Jaime Fernández

Jaime Fernández (1960) is a journalist and literary essayist. In 2009 he published his first book, De Claro en Claro: A Reading from El Quijote (Editora Regional de Extremadura). The following year he published the literary study La ciudad de los misvíos. Venetian Visions of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann, (Forcola), in which he analyzes The Merchant of Venice and Death in Venice, establishing a curious comparison between the main characters of both works against the backdrop of the city of canals. In his last book, Hitler, the artist of evil (Almuzara, 2012), he breaks down the mentality of the German dictator and the National Socialist ideology based on his peculiar conception of art.

On the occasion of the centenary of Por el camino de Swann, in 2013 he published Lunch on the Grass (Hermida Editores), a wide selection of thoughts taken from In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, in translation by María Teresa Gallego and Amaya García . The anthology is preceded by a detailed essay by Jaime Fernández himself on the French writer's novel cycle.