Certain stories about madness are a direct invitation to dark worlds where the mind can become lost. The adventure of this dementia is directed towards that recognition of the delirium of a plot that does not stop awakening the magnetism of a strange case that dives between the crime novel, the thriller and the detective genre.
A cinematic analogy for this novel could be the Shutter Island, that film in which you intuit that Di Caprio is like a goat (worth the redundancy) and yet you let yourself be carried away by his sinister search for the missing woman in a psychiatric hospital, within a scenography understood as the ins and outs of a mind approached by The madness.
In the case of the novel reviewed here, we enter one of those lives given to the dizzying pace of the big city. We meet Fabián Alfaro, a musical genius with his violin and passionate about the most intense life that exudes sensuality from the most refined music to the most explicit desire.
Only shortly after we start reading we discover how the world of Fabían, the Ricart sisters, Nestor Camil or Rogelio is composing a surreal space that destroys the city, which composes a chorus towards life as estrangement.
Death, the murderer who may belong to that violent world that observes the protagonists or that perhaps emerges from the imbalance, from the frenzy, from the notion of life as a walk on the tightrope of all the drives taken to the extreme. The possibility that everything is a dream of suicidal inspirations. And yet the imperative need to fit the pieces of that half subjective, half real puzzle into a plot that also addresses erotic sensations on the brink of life and death.
There are certain characters, undoubted for the reader and others who come and go, who arrive with their unreal brilliance to awaken confusion about their ultimate existence, beyond Fabian's perception. Herminia is that woman made in the image and likeness of Fabián's overflowing imagination, and she may hold the key to everything that happens around these characters who move through the streets of a great dehumanized city.
A novel that is read with undoubted anxiety to know the resolution of the case, but, above all, to elucidate what was true.
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