The characters are interesting. They seem to exist out there, in some ‘world’ beyond pages. All, even the secondary ones, even those who barely appear. The conversations are interesting. The topics are interesting. The story is interesting. No, it is exciting, since this is, in … Reality, a mystery novel, a kind of ‘thriller’. An immensely elegant ‘thriller that is a double story, of love on the one hand and of exploitation and violence mental and physical on the other.
As for the style. Phew. You feel that you can fall short when praising it, but that if you really say what you think will not be believed. This mental gallimaties always stalks the critic. The style. Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga He has found a style that is as poetic as it is tense and effective.
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Author
Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga -
Editorial
Gutenberg Galaxy -
Year
2025 -
Pages
384 -
Price
22.50 euros
A quick style made of short and small brushstrokes that is enormously agile and that has one of the rarest qualities that a prosister can have: true charm. It seems to sprout from the light of Rome, from that rhythm of hills, pines, statues, art and history. This is not only a great Spanish novel but also a great European novel.
We do not want to tell the plot not to reveal to the reader what a surprise should be. I wish we could, to make him participate in how much we like Lucía Dávila, So attractive that all the characters seem in love with her, and Enrico Tomasi, Dante’s everlasting reader, and how much we hate Sebastián Osuna, the scientist who does not understand the value of art!
The debate between humanism and science is in the heart of the novel. Because Sebastián, Lucia’s ex -husband, not only despises art and considers him a useless luxury, but is willing to achieve his goals, even hiring a criminal to attack those who are interested in his ex -wife, to discredit her before her colleagues and her children, to harass it to the point that She changes her surname to try to flee.
Science that It is believed only truth criterionthat is left corrupting for capital and businesses and that becoming an “unquestionable absolute” allies with those “Titans” of the Greek imaginary that represent the inhuman.
An immensely elegant ‘thriller that is a double story, written with a style that is as poetic as it is tense and effective
In front of Sebastián, “the lord of the rats”, who treats his fellow men as if they were the rats he uses in his experiments, appears The mysterious, enrico chimericDante’s reader, defender of humanism and the life of the soul, with which Lucia will live a love story of enormous intensity and delicacy. The Lake chapter. And that of Bomarzo. «The body is water. Water is a soul ». The tone, the fascination of the words of a narrator who has reached the full mastery of his trade.
There is no character in this novel that is not memorable: Lancaster, the offender; Gustavo Setién, director of the Academy of Spain in Rome, That he is the narrator of the story, since ‘we were coming from the night’ is also the story of how we were writing ‘we came from the night’; Laura, Lucia’s daughter obsessed in a sickly way with ecology and climatic crisis; Francesca, the daughter of Gianfranco, who works with immigrants and homeless people … strands that form together the tapestry of a great novel.
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