Author: Aitor Villafranca
- Fiction
- Ediciones Oblicuas
- ISBN: 9788415528111
- Release Date: 07-01-2014
Synopsis
Leo, un joven que todavía no ha llegado a la treintena, vive solo en su apartamento, donde también trabaja traduciendo anodinos prospectos farmacéuticos. Desde que su novia Virginia lo abandonara, vive ahí encerrado sin prácticamente salir a la puerta de la calle, ensimismado en su propia desesperación. Para colmo, desde el apartamento de al lado, no para de escuchar gemidos de gente follando recordándole sus propias carencias. Cuando cree identificar las voces de las chicas que visitan el piso contiguo, su vida comienza a adquirir un tinte difícil de explicar. Aitor Villafranca consigue construir en esta novela breve una hipnótica narración sobre el deseo, la melancolía y el desaliento con una arrebatadora cadencia en las que el misterio y el relato psicológico conviven a la perfección.
Not-quite-30-year-old Leo lives alone in his apartment, where he makes a living translating tediously boring pharmaceutical pamphlets. Ever since his girlfriend Virginia left him, Leo hasn’t been able to summon the energy to so much as open his front door—let alone leave the apartment—wallowing as he is in his own misery. To make matters worse, the soundtrack to his despair is his neighbors’ incessant lovemaking, which only serves to remind him what he’s missing out on. When Leo thinks that he recognizes the voices of the girls visiting the adjacent apartment, though, his life takes a very interesting turn indeed. This brief, hypnotic novel plumbs the depths of desire, melancholy, and despondency with a sweeping rhythm that blends the mysterious and the psychological to perfection.
