The best books are the ones that come and find their writer, not the ones a writer sets out to find. From those acts of kismet, amazing works and adventures emerge.

Because writer Eloy Tizón (Madrid, 1964) has decided to depart from fiction for a while in order to show off his skills as a literary critic who has been writing about other authors for 30 years. Herido leve (Páginas de Espuma) gathers up all his literary affinities along with the odd phobia. However, literary love, if it is real, is also blind. Or so they say.

The pages of Herido leve bring together Nabokov, Djuna Barnes, and Tsvetayeva, but also Flaubert, Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, centenarian Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, Chekov, Alice Munro, Rimbaud, Poe, Richard Ford, Martin Gaite, and even Luis Magrinyà, just to name a few, because this book, like literature itself, is almost bottomless.

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