The regatta, by Manuel Vicent

The regatta, last work of Manuel Vincent it has two readings. Or three or more, depending on the reader-reader. It is what has the paradise that was granted to us on Earth. We can all participate in it to the extent that we want to believe in appearances or know how to appreciate the ultimate realities. And literature, especially in the hands of an author like Don Manuel Vicent, is the perfect tool to lead us in a kind of tragicomedy of characters in search of their kindest destiny.

That great yearned for, paradise on Earth, could well be a place like circea, the space that the author's imaginary presents us on the shores of a dazzling Mediterranean, where Dora mayo enjoy the opulence to the excess of happiness. Dora hoped to escape in a regatta through the docile Mediterranean, tamed for posh and nouveau riche. But in the end he is left without a mentor and without a ticket for the boat. And he ends up returning to Madrid, looking in defeat for a new place from which to believe in something again, but with his soul burdened by that vital parenthesis on the shores of the Mediterranean.

The regatta finds new participants and begins its hedonistic blog. The eyes of a writer put the counterpoint to such foolishness of characters without soul or scruples, at least in appearance. Although with the weight of their trivial existences accompanying their contradictions and their selfishness.

But everyone knows they are vulnerable. And in the moments in which they assume their irrelevant presence, be it in front of a majestic sunrise or in front of the sudden briskness of the sea, they evoke their misfortunes and discover their miserable defenses with which they try to cover the void.

The horizon of the Mediterranean will see the new days born until the last that remain. Until that dawn without admirers, that awakening without conscience; the day when the authentic Mediterranean appears eternal for all. And the silence will silence the last echoes of the farce of our lives.

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