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Volver antes que ir
Poetry, and perhaps something more, has always beaten at the heart of all of Flavia Company’s books. Here the full force of its pulse is felt. The why, the ‘secret’, of her immersion in the poem is revealed to us by the author herself in the form of a prologue. A journey, a monologue, memory and the present. Flavia Company does away with all borders, dissolves the lines between genres and explodes labels to make what should always be made: literature. A daring verse about a continuous line, an emotion communicated in punctuation marks. Those who have left, those on their way, those who are leaving, and as the famous tango song says so well: Volver, going back. A boomerang thrown into history. Life with no holds barred.
Ana Martín Puigpelat