Lo que todavía no sabes del pez hielo

Lo que todavía no sabes del pez hielo

Year: 2012.
Editorial: Seix Barral.

(What you still don´t know about the Icefish)

Nothing is what it looks like and even less what it is, claims Teo who in total keeping with this sentence, prefers to hide his true name. The truth is that he is twenty seven, still lives with his mother, suffers from a light type of lupus and idolizes Lenny Bruce. Locked up in his tiny room he practices, among other things, the strange skill of escaping reality until one day, the rain forces him into a bar where he meetsLena. She, a prestigious lawyer, rich and shrewd, embodies the tip of thread of an entangled ball of twine. Her presence will give Teo´s monotonous reality an almost unbearable forcefulness.

What you still don´t know about the Icefish is a precise labyrinth whose roots evoke Kafka and Beckett´s works, as well as other masters of the absurd. With an elegant and expressive prose, Efraim Medina, leads us to the intimate-most regions of filial love, the creative obsession and eroticism. But this is only the visible part of the iceberg beneath which is drawn a harsh portrait of the human condition.

 

 

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