The circle is perfection, the journey of no return, the infinity finally enclosed. The square is more faithful to real life. Geometry still quite close to the desired perfection but at the end of the day with its inevitable angles and edges. Soledad Puertolas He brings us up to this quartet, of ring strings, so that we can fight in a duel with other extenuations of symmetrical strength. Four stories where each hit finds the same reaction, awakening that learning echo between the fable or the crudest realism.
The princess of a kingdom suffers from a strange disease; none of the doctors, wise men and healers consulted by his father comes up with the cure, and it will come in an unexpected way… The rich man of a town hires a teacher for his children and allows other boys to attend classes; one of them falls in love with the teacher and later tries to find her ... A young woman sets up a tea room in the city and meets a client who mysteriously disappears ... The wife of a doctor leaves him to go north to work ; One day the news reaches him that she is very ill and he sets out on a journey to see her for the last time ...
Four stories in the classic way with a modern twist, each of which is titled a Latin phrase -horror vacui, ceteris paribus, festina lens, noli me tangere- around whose meaning the plot revolves.
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