«Eltesch writes about the functioning of memory in the same way that the antique dealer collects objects: trying to preserve them to save them from the world and from time. […] Private Collection is a fiction about the fragility of memory itself, about the broken glass left behind by family myths, and about love as rubble drawn between the impossibility of contact and the silhouettes of absence.”—Álvaro Bisama

«[Gonzalo Eltesch] He chooses the memory, the confessedly intervened memory, of his father as an antique dealer in Valparaíso, working his paragraphs [...] as if each one were a unique piece, a jewel, a vibration in the void (it makes you want to read it aloud, makes you want to reread it in a low voice).”—Marco Antonio de la Parra

Valparaiso, Chile. An antique dealer -a supporter of Pinochet, a supplier to Neruda- refuses to sell his collections; a woman who perhaps loved him; a son who tells everything; a child friend of the old; and the discomfort of being a teenager in a city that refuses to become a tourist postcard...

Private collection, a non-fiction novel by the young Chilean publisher of Lebanese origin, Gonzalo Eltesch. A narrative of autobiographical overtones, beautiful, brief, vigorous. A work composed as a marvelous collage with the fragments left by memory, apparently simple, but with a great charge of depth.