Author: Manuel Perez Subirana
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Roberto Brest is a militant of mediocrity who is used to sadness, a being consumed by boredom, a graduate of medicine stuck as a factory worker, a writer who does not write… Until one night, upon returning home, he remembers an event that took place twenty two years before and that he, still a teenager, had found out through the newspapers. It was the suicide of a man who, after seeing his team lose against England, hung himself in the kitchen of his house in Cairo, leaving the following note behind: “After Egypt’s defeat, nothing makes sense.” Due to this phrase, which Robert Brest judges to be strangely lucid and almost perfectly humorous, he makes the decision to change his life. And so begins Egypt, the name he gives his personal diary in which he writes of all his adventures and transformations: a secret, enigmatic, unpredictable plan. Feeling his way along in the dark, the protagonist will begin to look for a new place in the world far away from the bogged down and grey reality he had been living in. He will soon discover the difficulties of his task and how dangerous it can be to confront oneself in order to live life. / Roberto Brest es un militante de la mediocridad acostumbrado a la tristeza, un ser consumido por el hastío, un licenciado en medicina metido a peón de fábrica, un escritor que no escribe... Hasta que una noche, al regresar a casa, recuerda un suceso que ocurrió veintidós años atrás y que él, todavía adolescente, había conocido por los periódicos: el suicidio de un hombre que, tras ver cómo su selección de fútbol perdía ante Inglaterra, se ahorcó en la cocina de su casa de El Cairo, dejando escrita la siguiente nota: «Tras la derrota de Egipto, ya nada tiene sentido.» Debido a esta frase, que Roberto Brest juzga de una extraña lucidez y un humorismo casi perfecto, tomará la determinación de cambiar de vida. Y así comenzará Egipto, que es el nombre que dará a su diario personal donde consignará todas sus aventuras y transformaciones: un plan secreto, enigmático, impredecible. A tientas, el protagonista empezará a buscar un nuevo lugar en el mundo lejos de la realidad empantanada y gris en la que ha vivido. Pronto descubrirá las dificultades de su tarea y lo peligroso que resulta enfrentarse a uno mismo para apostar por la vida.
Series: Narrativas hispánicas
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
BISAC Code: FIC019000
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