Who is the famulus?
An absent being?
Something that breaks into these trances of abandonment?

In this way, the narrator of The Palace begins to write to a mysterious interlocutor, with that fragmentary writing that unfolds on itself, in the way that happens with the entire work of Bellatin, seen as a single book made up of texts that dialogue and They resonate with each other to form a Whole. This is because Bellatin's writing moves away from the myth of inspiration to carve over and over again almost unlikely elements that actually come from the autobiography, always as a mold capable of acquiring a completely new form, each time exploring how far they can be. stretched the limits of literature.

In El Palacio, recurring characters and obsessions are recovered, such as the family man himself, the dog Perezvón or the legendary beauty salon that also acts as a death spot. Basically, the interlocutor the narrator addresses is none other than the reader, or those thousands of readers who throughout his work have delved time and time again into the fiercely singular universes that constitute the writing of Mario Bellatin.