Why is grass in airports so important? Can you be an extraordinary copyist without knowing how to read or write? Are there successful musicians who only play one note in their lives? Book after book, Fabio Morábito's stories have become more and more radical in their way of showing us that imagination is not a funny attribute of the mind, but perhaps the only way not to feel excluded from the real world. With a prose purged of all unnecessary explanations and descriptive embellishments, La sombra del mamuto insists once again on the guiding principle of Morábito's work: play fair with the reader, who advances in reading these stories as he did when writing them. , open to any course they could take and without imposing anything on them that was not a strong requirement of style and economy. For this reason, these stories are as unexpected as they are different from each other, all uni...read more
