Each expired decade is covered with a kind of nostalgic halo. Especially for those who enjoyed a youth already locked up in the archive of time, in its corresponding section, with its symbols and labels.
The 90s breastfed a generation of privileged young people. Good work prospects loomed in the future. But as long as the future was not present, young people could dedicate themselves to expressing youth to the sound of the modernity of the moment.
Bohemianism is a fairly widespread constant in every youth phase. A rebellious and hedonistic point, shameless and also nihilistic usually accompanies young people. The contradiction to which the title of this novel appeals is usually the awakening that day when you stop being young and perhaps you have squeezed that youth too much. I allow myself to refer this text related to this matter ...
The vanguard of every generation are artists, musicians, writers. They set the pace, establish generational symbols, reflect social reality and bear witness to what happened. His involvement with the moment means experimenting to the limit, living to the fullest, becoming the image and exponent of perpetual youth, parking the blurred certainty of tomorrow.
Mar is an artist who survived that explosive avant-garde of the 90s. When she is informed that her ex-partner, Álvaro Berni, is in a coma in the prison hospital where he was serving his sentence, Mar relives his shipwreck, that becoming of excesses of bitter aftertaste that suddenly closed his youth.
Violence, pain and forced motherhood. Art as the background of the story, as a common thread in the erratic evolution of the characters. As it already happened in The Picture of Dorian GrayMar's sculptures seem to gather the tensions of the soul, waiting to emerge at any moment, in the inert but direct gaze of any representation.
When the past catches up with the present, we can be paralyzed, terrified, or demand a reconciliation.
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