Why alcohol and life in bursts of joy, in hope, obstinacy, or forgetfulness? Nazul Aramayo asks, immersed in his mystical-alcoholic lucidity. By drinking with passion and sacralizing alcohol, he brings us closer to his old drinking buddy, Andreas Kartak, in Joseph Roth's The Legend of the Holy Drinker. But less blah blah blah and more gulp gulp, says the thirsty reader who has drunk early and gotten into the swing of things with Nazul's previous writings, the novel Eros Díler and the stories about La Monalilia and its Colombian stars, books immersed in drugs and booze during happy hour, in which one learns two things: that the author's literary hand prepares explosive cocktails. And that the bar is the last refuge in cities like Torreón, where the maquila, unemployment, or migration are the future options after finishing school.
