Empty Spain, the previous book of Sergio del Molino, presented us with a devastated, rather than devastating, perspective on the evolution of a country that went from economic misery to a kind of moral misery. And I emphasize the devastated perspective because the exodus of the people from the towns to the city occurred with blind inertia, like that of the donkey and the carrot ...
And suddenly, from those muds, these muds arrive. Empty Spain presented us with the figure of Antonio Aramayona, a professor of philosophy disenchanted with the contradictions of living and about to exit from the forum of this world. From him branched out that now mythical essay that came out last year.
Well, that suddenly, in this new book The look of the fish, Antonio Aramayona returns to literary life with greater prominence. The teacher's teachings on integrity, progress, the need to always claim the unfair and respect for oneself, fit perfectly with a practically autobiographical space of the author.
Youth is what they have, impregnated with all those good principles transmitted by the appropriate person, driven by little more than common sense, respect and their own truth, ends up being stamped with a reality that awaits a maturity already redirected towards conventionalism and its opportunism.
In the end there is a point of recognition of the betrayal that is to grow and mature. Everything that was agreed in blood in youth ends up smearing like wet ink on the pages of our own books. There is always anger, and the notion that at any moment, if luck bets, we will go back to being, in part, everything we were.
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