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Visión desde el fondo del mar
A journey composed of multiple voyages, this book is a compendium, bringing together very different experiences from the author’s life. Convinced of the essential truth of the words of a fisherman (‘If you get caught in a whirlpool when you’re swimming, don’t try to fight it. Let yourself be sucked in. When you get to the centre, it will throw you out and up and you’ll be safe.’), Rafael Argullol decides to focus his gaze on the sea bed, the deepest part of the human soul, in search of glowing light of existence. An adventure of the spirit, this view, composed of fragments of an unfinished journey, uses a variety of writing forms in a complex network which is a question, but also intuits its own reply. Written by hand, with the slowness of one seeking the exquisite point of the impulse, it offers itself up to the reader from the consciousness of nebulous regions that aspire to harmony.