BOOK / THE MAN WHO SHIVERS. Andrea Pomella

NARRATIVE

Fear, anguish, despair, and rage are the four glass walls within which depression, the dark and profound evil of a superficial and seemingly luminous modernity, encloses those who fall within its grasp. Once in its clutches, every person trembles; some find the lucidity to speak out, like Andrea Pomella, who regards his illness as if it were a foreign object, a strange body with which he seeks to become familiar because in this attempt to understand the unknowable lies the meaning of everything, of life itself. From the depths of the author's soul, a book emerges that is both stormy and salvific: the body's reactions to the assaults of drugs, the sessions with psychiatrists, the relationship with his partner and his son, forced to live with the ups and downs of the illness, the return of the ancient ghost of the disowned father. But when everything seems to sink into total darkness, suddenly a glimmer of light, the prospect of a redemption capable of dispelling the darkness. Reading this book means immersing yourself in a foreign world until you feel it as your own; it means walking, step by step, the path from a state of absolute pain to a new beginning. A vital, human, but also literary journey articulated in writing, intimate, precise, and sharp as a razor's edge: the loud and firm voice of a man who trembles.

Title: El hombre que tiembla
Author: Andrea Pomella
Pages: 244
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Weight: 250 grams
Genre: Fiction
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Altamarea
Year: 2021