supernatural odyssey in 2030

However, we are dealing with a writer as established as we are Ricardo Menendez Salmon (Gijón, 1971), it is appropriate to start the presentation Ark for one of the quotes (André Gide) that precede the reading with which we recommend you invite us: do not write for certain skeptics that they deny the facts as they go downstream.

Having confirmed his position, he can continue his narrative work, maintained for twenty years, between essayistic prose (Asturias para Vera, Dialogue on WG Sebald, No hors d’oeuvres dutifully on this quiet night) and fiction (Philosophy in winter, Jellyfish, Horde), is guided by the principles of a completely unique and personal conciencia conciencia.

En Arkalso to systematically solve the anxieties and fears that attack contemporary man and establish a dialogue with the classics of philosophy and thought (from Plato to Walter Benjamin, from Kafka to Borges), it emphasizes reality from a compromise with languagegenerator of the most daring images, ideas and fiction.

Everything is visible thanks to him: the pain that comes in life, the hatred between generations, the fate of an era, here we are and here we can turn. His erudition does not allow readers to fall into disillusionment. We are familiar with this site, but we do not promise comfort or convenience.

“We live in a present from which I seem to have learned the most influential dystopias of the 20th century”, we read in this huge novel, a challenge to limit the imagination that offers a different vision of story and fiction.

An immense novel, a challenge to limit the imagination that offers a different vision of the story

History here has to do with the European problematic reality and its derivation, with a past that is diluted and a future that is present. Knowing that “truth is something more complete than an epistemological category”. Ah serious tone, without exception of gravity and irony.

The fiction goes further. Discurre entre géneros (a dystopian fable, thriller fantastic) and takes form (literally) an apocalyptic “odyssey”. arranged in three books (Umbral, Grail, Commemorative) boaters of episodes that chronicle the journey.

We travel from the voice of a narrator who has a different voice and a different era and who moves in space and time through real scenarios: Madrid, Delft and Venice.

The hero-protagonist enjoys (from adolescence) a “don” that allows him to “come to life” despite the forgotten things. The price was high, he lost all affection and passed through unthinkable shadows.

Currently 2030. The new customer is a reverse fund and the shipment consists of it find out what happened to one of your employees, he disappeared without leaving the room.

From Venice, although it is the most beautiful city on the planet, installed in building From 1550, where the disappearance occurs and where your fish starts, let’s see the full list of news…

We recognize characters with a hint in the story and others in the legend. And if we decipher in front of us a construction whose narration involves supuestos: the world to be surrounded must focus on the story. Our life, in order to enjoy that feeling, must be able to count.

It can be violent and hypnoticto provoke extrañez and resistance, to note that it is the repetition of evil and pain (fundamental assumptions) that intersects story and fiction.

Those who enjoyed the work of Menéndez Salmon know this. As you know from your tendency not to limp, to rest so that you do not long for the announcement of the Oracle, who advises you that sometimes “this too shall pass.”