Diarios: Tomo 2, A ratos perdidos 3 y 4
Literature biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"Second volume of Rafael Chirbes' Diaries, which brings together various notebooks written between 2005 and 2007. These are the years of slow preparation, full of doubts that even led him to consider abandoning literature, for the novel that would be… his definitive work: Crematorio. They are also years of personal uncertainties: of the definitive abandonment of his work in the editorial office of Sobremesa, which gives him a new freedom; of friends who die; of fleeting sexual encounters, between desire and decrepitude, because the body is no longer young; of growing disappointments... But the enthusiasms of yore remain very much alive: classic films, which bring moments of happiness, and tireless reading, sharp and varied: Montaigne, La Celestina, La Regenta, Baudelaire, Poe's stories, Némirovsky's Suite française, Jünger's diaries, Ellroy.... .. And also the trips to several cities: New York, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona... Always on guard, always implacable with himself and with others - including, for example, a severe portrait of Juan Goytisolo, with whom he meets again in Berlin -, always slipping away from literary groups, commonplaces and banality, he expresses strong opinions against what he contemptuously calls "literature of high expression", loaded with winks and literary references, and against more than a few current writers, whom he reads with disdain and sometimes with indignation." -- Translation provided by NLS