The motives for the homicide, considered as the hallmark of the person capable of killing a fellow man, supposes a descent to the conditions of all kinds that can lead to that violent reaction more or less treacherous, accidental or premeditated, in a chain or isolated.
Toño Ciruelo is the monster capable of materializing that appeased drive for all human beings, shedding all filters and freeing himself from the prevailing morality from the individual to the universal.
Despite my rather transcendent introduction, what we do in this book is seek an impossible empathy with circumstances, education, emotions and everything that ends up forging Toño Ciruelo as a murderer.
When we know of a murder, we immediately consider the psychopath, someone marked by the genetic or the traumatic, overcome by some kind of insurmountable fear or by an uncontrollable resentment, or perhaps a mixture of all of this.
The one who helps us in this case in recreating Toño Ciruelo's profile is Eri Salgado. She is the one who makes us participate in the vital passing of the one who is capable of murder. Is the murderer born or made? Could someone who is going to kill have been a normal person? Doubts that we are discovering to the rhythm of a narrative of sublime literature of the human in all its aspects.
In the background there is some theatricalization in the life of Toño Ciruelo. He knows that his desire to kill is not common and that is why he has to adopt masks with which to adapt to each moment of his life. His unpredictable fondness for the death of others is detailed by Eri in a unique study of the murderer.
Common aspects with any other person and unique nuances that make Toño the monster that he ends up being. Differences more or less palpable, amazing coincidences with the common of mortals and definitive facts that are born from the trivial. Trying to understand the crucial moment in which someone turns off the light of another similar being ...
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