In ‘El desván de las musas dormidas’ the narrative voice is in the first person.
A voice that, from a present neither geographically nor chronologically defined, seeks to understand what happened in his past, within the walls of his family home, in the different boarding schools where he studied, until he reached the moment he always prayed would never come: the death of his father.
In this novel, the main and secondary characters have no names, at most nicknames. And yet, words play a crucial role. Not only because they tell us or reveal the unsuspected, but also because they place us in an unknown world. In fact, the narrator, a child who throughout the story does not seem to change, is so linked to the substantial words of his father, to the physiological ailments that he suffers from time to time, to the daily vicissitudes in which his mother rarely appears, but when she does, it is with light and spirits of her own.
By J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip
