BOOK / BEING A CAT. Edgar Borges

NARRATIVE

To have four paws, five pads on each one, watchful eyes, seven lives, lightning reflexes. To be a cat, in short, is to be stealthy and fearless, preparing to overcome fear over the abyss, to discover that in reality, nothingness is everything. The lyricism of this original feline ode is a call to freedom, the trigger for an allegory that analyzes the human through the feline and reflects on life itself, in which there is nothing left but to wait, lick our wounds, and, sometimes, bare our claws. We are all cats waiting to leap into the void, to hunt prey; in search of a warm nook to rest in, a safe place to call home, and a hand to caress us.

Edgar Borges (1966) was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and has lived in Spain since 2007. His work, marked by an original and profound reworking of reality, has been honored with numerous international awards and praised by writers such as Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke and Enrique Vila-Matas. Throughout his long career as a writer, he has published numerous novels, many of which have been translated into several languages. Notable among them are Swarms, Who Killed My Mother?, Contemplation, Chronicles of a Bar, and The Non-Media Man Who Read Peter Handke.

Title: Ser gato
Author: Edgar Borges
Pages: 64
Size: 11 x 17 cm
Weight: 120 grams
Genre: Fiction
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Altamarea
Year: 2021