Author: Stéphan Lévy-Kuentz
Translation: Laura Naranjo Gutierrez
Publisher: Peripheral Publishing House
ISBN: 978-84-18838-25-5
Binding: paperback
Pages: 136
Format: 11x17
Spanish Language
Year: 2022
A man sits alone on the terrace of a Parisian bistro in the Montparnasse district. In a light trance caused by alcohol, he begins to soliloquize in silence. His inner monologue flows with vivid or bookish memories, caustic observations on the trivialities that occur on the terrace, as well as an endless number of sharp poetic-philosophical musings that, full of moments of grace, distill a very fine humor in keeping with the beautiful lightness of his enterprise: taking an aperitif. Reaching the intimate zenith of the paradoxical lucidity that alcohol provides, our dreamer recreates those profound minutes in which drunkenness creates the illusion of dancing in perfect harmony with the world around us, on the tight rope of wandering.
Metaphysics of the Aperitif is a small, vitalist and erudite treatise that cleverly examines one of the few moments that our fast-paced world still reserves for contemplation and creative leisure. A static novel that, however, surprises us with an unexpected final twist. A therapeutic little work to drink in small sips.
