La comedia salvaje

Benjamin has received a mission that seems disproportionate: stop the Civil War. Though he doesn't think it's possible, to avoid a likely execution squad he will tour a country that has seemingly enthusiastically set out on its own destruction. Along the way he will encounter bizarre characters, delirious appearances that will make him think that he has gone crazy. Luckily he meets Julia, a woman much more capable than he is of finding her way in the midst of nonsense. This novel is nonsense, a world of hallucination in which realistic scenes coexist with impossible events, although you never know if the most grotesque situations are taken from reality or from the writer's imagination. The Civil War found in these pages cannot serve to feed solemn speeches, because there are no heroes or exemplary biographies here; neither is there moral relativism or political equidistance. The voices of Cervantes, Valle Inclán and Kurt Vonnegut resonate in this novel that is, above all, a meditation on war, on all wars, and also a playful reflection on the usefulness of literature.