When I started reading this novel I thought I was going to find myself halfway between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and the movie Memento. In a sense, that's where the shots go. Reality, fantasy, reconstruction of reality, the fragility of memory ...
But in this type of work there is always something new, surprising aspects that bring the reader closer to the possible twists and turns of the mind, the perception of the self and of reality formed in an indefinable percentage of subjectivity plus another as much of the objectivity that others have. .
El Korsakov syndrome It is a real pathology, also known as conspiracy, where it is your own mind that is conspiring, generating a reality that you never know what will be true.
I really liked that touch of science fiction inserted into the everyday that this disease brings to the whole of the work. It is not a question of great scientific or metaphysical elucubrations, it is rather a question of extrapolating the effects of forgetting, of selective memory, of the disturbed memories that we are all manufacturing in order to empathize to a certain degree with Andrés.
A character of Andres so unique that, through a mind affected by this unique pathology, he asks us how we live our own sensations, how we assume the role of our I with all the most interesting ramifications in terms of love, our own identity, our being based on memories and the need to resort to them to feel precisely that: I.
In short, an interesting story very well worked, convincing in terms of the chaos that necessarily governs a character like this and surprising from the beginning to the end in terms of the solutions that Andrés finds to stay afloat between reality and suspicion. of fiction.
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