Although Dark totality was published in 1983, and although, like its predecessor - the also great Speedboat (Sixth Floor, 2015) -, enjoyed cult status and was avidly read by the most awake readers, it was not He restored the place of privilege he deserves to occupy among American letters until he was rescued by The New York Review of Books. Total darkness is a love story, or, what is the same, of lack of love and rupture, of disorientation and emptiness that follow every end, but away from all clichés to use, and with a conception and a writing that They continue to surprise by its absolute modernity. How to face a chaotic world, a mutable and voracious present when you have a broken heart? Although the protagonist, Kate Ennis, possesses the nonexistent weapons of his sharp intelligence, his sensitivity, his humor and his nonnegotiable autonomy, all are wrecks in a vast night sea. It is not too explicit the whys, Only the effects are implied, that appear and reverberate here and there, in the experiences of the day to day, in excursions of nightmare or surrealistic experiences, to add a shade of uneasiness and uncertainty. Of fragmentary structure and poetic scope, events in principle disparate occur on this common pool of disorientation and loss. Narratives, discontinuous - and touching the most diverse political, social, literary - intertwine subtly an intimate diary, an underground story, which the reader must recompose, and which is the love story, that agony abyss to which the narrator Must overcome to confront a confused and accelerated reality from a proper, free, independent place.