It has to be a great pleasure to be able to do a reissue through the front door, in the popular acclaim plan. AND Elia Barceló he resorts to these terrible disguises of his to appease his reading public, yearning for plots made in Barceló. And the truth is that this plot comes from pearls to accompany some times of general masquerade that end up locating us in the carnival of carnivals. Because nothing is more carnival than our imagination given to reading, and everything that surrounds literary creation. Because the reflection of what is read is reconstructed from nothing between the oscillating lights and shadows of our own reality.
A novel between realist and criminal, in which a biographer investigates the disguises (as terrible as what they hide) of a mysterious existence that, little by little, becomes involved in his own. A disturbing visit to the hindquarters of literary fame.
In the XNUMXs, the prestigious Argentine short story writer Raúl de la Torre, who lives in Paris, rose to fame by publishing his first novel. His popularity as a boom novelist grew with his subsequent works, his unexpected second marriage, and his political involvement. All this places him in the spotlight of the chronicles of society when he decides to publicly discover his homosexuality or when his suicide is known with a gun.
Many years later, the young French critic Ariel Lenormand embarks on the biography of the writer by interviewing those who knew him: his editor, his friends and, above all, Amelia, his puzzling and sophisticated first wife, partner and support of the author throughout of their life. But the mysterious world that surrounded the writer threatens to become part of the biographer's life. What dark pressures led him to confess his homosexuality in a time when no one did? Why did he commit suicide? What is the terrible mystery that hides his novelistic work? Why are witnesses lying after so many years?
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