It often happens to me that reading a book I link concepts with a very different one. In this case the click jumped and shortly after reading I remembered the unbearable lightness of beingby Milan Kundera. It will be a question of that aroma to the magical moments of life, as scarce as you leave them. Both works share that intention of relating the intangible. In the case of Milan Kundera from a deeper, more existential plane, in the case of Javier Aznar from an ironic, almost burlesque point of view, assuming that magic does not last long.
The wonderful moments in which the planets align and wink at you is fireworks. If this weren't the valley of tears that it is, happy moments should extend to an all-time horizon. Paradise must have been something like that until Eve screwed up, or Adam, or both.
But what are we going to do, humans are a lot to screw up. What there is no doubt, and it is fair to admit it, is that beauty exists thanks to mediocrity. Comparison is always necessary in order to quantify the beauty of the moment in question.
El book Where are we going to dance tonight? It is the same question that we would like to be asked by the person we love ..., or perhaps it is an ironic approach to an impossible, or a rhetorical question of a happiness that briefly touches you.
This work is a fascinating journey through a routine spasmodically sublimated by the fleeting. An elegant narrative that catches you in that contrast between the mundane and the unexpected brightness of the special, that suddenly approaches you and makes you recover your own sensations collected as treasures of the soul.
Bunbury sang, in a covered theme, something like that the soul writes its books, but nobody reads them. This book is the diary of a soul that freely traverses between the everyday and the exceptional, offering a pleasant reading pleasure from the outside to the inside, from reality to the subjective gaze of a character capable of transforming what is lived into fully enjoyed. Always knowing that nothing lasts. And with the humor to take it on peacefully.
Overcoming this heavy burden of "nothing is left" with that humor, elegance and good literature that it offers Javier Aznar it is an act of literary generosity.
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