Diarios. A ratos perdidos 5 y 6

Third and last volume of Rafael Chirbes' essential diaries, the culmination of a literary event... Here are the annotations from various notebooks written between 2007 and 2015, the period in which he published the two novels that mark the culmination of his literary career −Crematorium and On the shore− and in his last years of life, marked by illness. The doubts and crises in the writing of these fundamental works, the conversations with their Barcelona publisher, the repercussions of the publication and some disagreements with the press, the tolls of literary life and some very acid comments on various contemporary writers appear on these pages. It is also very present, as in the previous installments, the voracious reader, passionate both in his enthusiasms and in his rejections, who reads the classics and his contemporaries.