Nothing as alienating as war. An idea of alienation that is perfectly captured in the dreamlike cover of this book, which in turn provides a sinister perspective. Serve as a perfect advance because that character between protected and hidden, bearer of flowers that could well lead to a cemetery or be a transfiguration of a destructive weapon in his hands ...
The Spanish Civil War and its instinct for self-destruction. Vietnam and the awakening of consciences. Normandy and the final victory on a coast soaked in blood. Armed conflicts and man turned into his worst monster. The recent XNUMXth century plagued with bloody confrontations and its shadow looming over a XNUMXst century that tells us about more possible conflicts and those that already exist, buried between dark spaces of the general consciousness.
With his virtuous poetic prose, full of images between brilliant and delirious, Agustín Fernández Mallo confronts us with a warlike mosaic, exposed before our eyes with disturbing intention, like a work that ends up discovering us perplexed, faced with what we are not in a time and such a distant space.
Intertwined with the warlike events of reference and with the projection to our days, a tragic feeling takes hold or rather is transmitted powerfully.
As a physicist, the author seems to have given us to understand that our only solution would be to leave this world until we find new places to relearn it with new premises. Well, the truth is that our imagination and our history are bathed in blood. If the only thing we are capable of is to pose eternal conflicts, Vietnam or Normandy could serve as an example, or smaller spaces such as the island of San Simón, where those who were being defeated were concentrated in waiting for the only possible redemption at will. the reason for the winners.
A literary composition of elegant sophistication in the form at the same time of brilliant clairvoyance about past and future, against the background of those warlike confrontations brought to this joint volume to decipher keys of our days ...
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