2023-08-03 20:26:35
Published on August 03, 2023 at 22:26. Modified on August 03, 2023 at 22:27.
At the end of April when spring is coming to Stockholm, Erasmo Aragon is sitting on a terrace, brooding over his domestication. The tamed man is him. Readers of Castellanos Moya know him from the remarkable Moronga (Métailié, 2018) and several other episodes of the Aragon saga. But this short novel can be read without knowing anything about this Salvadoran bourgeois family committed to the left: the author very skilfully provides all the information necessary to understand what Erasmo is doing in Sweden. In his fifties, a professor of Spanish literature in a mediocre American university, he was caught in a spiral of catastrophes that forced him to flee. Josefin, a Swedish nurse on internship in Merlow City, fell in love with this paranoid loser and took him in her luggage.
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