Bonsái (s hispánicas no 391)

[DeepL Translation - needs review] Condemned to seriousness and imposture, Julio, the silent protagonist of this book, ends up convincing himself that it is better to lock himself in his room to observe the growth of a bonsai than to wander along the uncomfortable paths of literature. This is, as the narrator says, "a light story that gets heavy", an elliptical and vertiginous tale marked by the disturbing disappearance of a woman. Jorge Luis Borges advised writing as if one were writing the...