In Under All the Rain in the World, ordinary men and women, kings, emperors, children, translators, artists and vagabonds meet. Fixed to a memory and unable to forget, the characters in these magnificent stories show that the basic condition of the human being, thrown by God on this earth, is loneliness.
A wall is the physical limit that separates and at the same time protects from the outside, from reality; also, a fictitious window that promises a contact with the outside. In these stories filled with emptiness, isolation, muffled screams, out in the open, remnants appear, fragments of other people's lives, often alienated from reality. They are the splinters of an incessant and vertiginous search for interiority that perhaps facilitates insertion into an incomprehensible, suffering world full of limitations.
The hand extended to the other, the need for correspondence and the attempt to unravel God's designs are not enough to overcome the pain of being alive. The beings that populate these stories, modulated by language and reflective capacity, question that incomprehensible limit between salvation and the danger of losing themselves without remedy.
After several years since the publication of Solemn and measured (1990), his first book of short stories, Hugo Mujica surprises us with these disturbing stories in which he exhibits, once again, his powerful ability to probe the secrets of the soul and his extraordinary talent. As a writer.