Diarios: Tomo 3, A ratos perdidos 5 y 6
Literature biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"Third installment of Rafael Chirbes' Diaries, which brings together the notes of various journals written between 2007 and 2015. We are, then, in the crucial period in which he publishes the two novels that represent the culmination of his literary… career -Crematorio and En la orilla- and in his last years of life, marked by illness. These pages contain the doubts and crises in the writing of these fundamental works, the conversations with his Barcelona publisher, the repercussions of publication and some disagreements with the press, the tolls of literary life and some very acidic comments on several of his contemporaries. Also very present, as in the previous installments, is the voracious reader, passionate in both his enthusiasms and his rejections, who reads the classics and his contemporaries. And the happy viewer of mostly classic films, as well as the citizen who reflects -sometimes with great indignation- on the Spanish political situation. Everyday life also appears, the coexistence in the house of Beniarbeig with Paco, whose health is declining day by day. And his own ailments: dizziness, insomnia, anguish and finally illness... This volume concludes the edition of some diaries of the highest literary and human value. The most intimate words of Rafael Chirbes, stripped of the artifice of fiction." -- Translation provided by NLS