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El ciego en la ventana
Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas writes that nostalgia is a mirage that must be combatted because it takes up and idealises a past that most probably never existed, while constantly compelling us to give it shape. El ciego en la ventana is a disquieting reconstruction of Masoliver’s memory: the blind man’s account does not develop into a story but a landslide of vivid images, mixed with others that are recalled or fantasy, scenes that are heartrending in the lucidity of a man who seems to be speaking from death, within the idleness of a timeless dimension. In this book, Masoliver Ródenas chides acquaintances and enemies, requited and unrequited loves, but also conveys acceptance of the passing of time and the imminence of the end of the road.