The young author Emiliano Monge presents us with a composition of existentialist stories. The human being in front of the mirror of his objective and subjective being. What we would like to be and what we are. What we think and what they think of us. What oppresses us and our desire for freedom ...
Emiliano Monge always presents a narrative without contemplation or consideration. The harshness of his stories serves to bare the truths and miseries of our civilization. This selection of stories helps the reader to find the abyss, what remains when we abandon ourselves to evil out of habit, under a patina of social good from which, in the end, no one gets any benefit.
The deepest surface it is a bestiary of man as a wolf of himself: from the arid intimacy of family terror to the voracity of a lynching, physical or media, anger and erosion are the sovereigns here. As if the characters were pawns of a vaporous but total will, personal destiny and social evolution act in these stories as an anonymous force that orders everything. That is to say: it dissolves everything.
With an implacable style, Emiliano Monge builds precise atmospheres of oppression. From the first words of each story, a looming vagueness is hinted at, a void that expands fiercely until it leads the microuniverses to their final dissolution.
Black holes of irony open up everywhere, but in this case humor does not offer relief or a way out, but deepens the corrosion. Characters - and readers - discover themselves suspecting that perhaps they have never been here, in this thin depth that we call the world, and in the end there is no consolation other than that of the rout.
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