‘Notas para unas memorias que nunca escribiré’ (Notes for Memoirs I Will Never Write) reaches bookstores today in an edition supervised by the author and accompanied by his ‘collages’. 'Babelia' advances several entries in the book.

Nine months before he died, Juan Marsé gave María Fasce, Editor in Chief of Lumen, the newspaper he had kept in 2004, accompanied by notebooks full of annotations and 'collages' covering the years 2006 through 2019. The set is available today under the title of ' Notas para unas memorias que nunca escribiré’ (Notes for Memoirs I Will Never Write), chosen by the author himself during the editing process done by Ignacio Echevarría, who also signs the prologue.

That 71-year-old Marsé, Echevarría points out, intends "to retain even the dregs of an experience that is draining rapidly [...]: to use writing in order to bring about that experience, to reveal it, to bring it to light." The tone of the entries is as varied as what the days bring: they include friendly impressions or quarrels about friends and colleagues, some sketches on family life, reflections on the political situation - it was the year of March 11 - and also, recurrently, blasts from the past, in the form of childhood memories or cinematographic images with dreamlike emotion.

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