Author: Constantino Molina
Publisher: Periférica
ISBN: 9788410171633
Binding: paperback
Pages: 200
Format: 21 x 13.5 cm
Language: Spanish
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There are books with a plot that can be summarized in three or four clear, communicable sentences; there are others, however, that, by trying to dialogue face-to-face with life, are imponderable. That's why they can go off on tangents, as this Parabolic Child does, and start talking about a 3D printed tomato, Goya's tomb, Madrid's sunsets in Parque del Oeste, the virtues of Pandorino versus Bollycao, the search for authentic brandy, or Vicente Aleixandre's dog, to tell us, in reality, about love, the conception of time, the value of the gratuitous, life in the big city, specifically Madrid, purity, the role of culture in our existence, the reasons for writing, or the relationships we establish with material goods.
Parabolic Child has the existential pulse of those books that can only be written in the middle of life, a novel sustained by a dazzling sense of humor, enthusiasm, powers of observation, precision, and poetic breath. Bold ideas and hypotheses proliferate in this novel – as frantic as it is reflective, as outlandish as it is tender – proposing a reading of the world that oscillates between extreme vitalism, philosophical depth, and hilarious moments. An almost experimental approach to the everyday in which going down to the supermarket can become a revealing experience.
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