Escombros, by Fernando Vallejo

Everything is susceptible to collapse. Even more so, life as one dodges the controlled explosions of age. Then there are the rubble, of which the important memories were never recovered in time. Because after all, no memory retains the touch or voice with which to cherish what is left of hope.

Well knows of all this a Fernando Vallejo placeholder image who is in charge of leading us through that improvised journey of the fait accompli against all will or anticipation. Things happen and doom always comes. Who knows how to write can give that varnish to the cracked soul, despite the fact that the same rubble is contained inside ...

En Debris, book that connects directly with one of the most emblematic and recognized works of the author, The ravine, Fernando Vallejo narrates the arrival of the night of the world, that time that goes from the agony of his partner, the Mexican set designer David Antón - which coincides with the earthquake that struck Mexico City in 2018 - and his death, and the current moment, marked by a pandemic that keeps the entire planet in suspense. The personal story of the author, the loss of his life partner of more than fifty years and his return to Colombia serve as a metaphor for the present, a world in destruction in which the narrator walks through a city in which he can only see ghosts.

Since Cicero, and including him, the old men have not been able to say anything definitive about old age. They can't tell it. Perhaps because fatigue is part of it. The real old man, let's say one of a hundred, is so tired that all he wants is to rest and not do favors for anyone by explaining things to them. On Debris no. The old curse in this book will be crazy, but what he says leaves me in awe. In everything he is right. I am very grateful to him for his dump, he gives me a lot of wisdom, he dispels many uncertainties, I know what awaits me when I get older, I highly recommend it ».

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