A victim of the herd narrated by Cristina Araújo Gámir, the instructions for use of old age and other books of the week

Cristina Araújo Gámir has dazzled with her first novel,

, winner of the Tusquets Prize, for the quality of her prose, the extremely calculated structure of her story, the analytical distance and the emotional empathy that she expends to understand a human tragedy as heartbreaking as that of a victim of gang rape.

The reader remains magnetized to discard each one of his conjectures, hooked to the protagonist, to the ellipses without emphasis, to the changes of rhythm and the changes of narrators of a hypersensitive novelist, very intelligent and wisely compassionate, in a story that reminiscent of the case of the barbarians of the Pack of Pamplona.

In addition to this novel, the critics of

also review interesting essays, such as

, in which the philosopher and eventual politician Manuel Cruz warns that the 21st century seems to be doomed to our society renouncing critical thinking and its passionate surrender to identity confusion;

or as

, an interesting book coordinated by Jordi Canal in which it is revealed how a color acquires significance not only when it describes, but, above all, when it identifies or stigmatizes.

In addition, in

, Laure Adler reviews in just 200 pages, without denying that old age implies decline, loss, to what this final season of life can also offer good.

For this, Adler draws on the experiences of artists, intellectuals, people who have excelled in life and have something to teach.

For his part, Juan Manuel de Prada offers a marvelous and exciting biography, extensive, exhaustive and critical, entitled

, of the fine poet and incisive journalist of the twenties and thirties Ana María Martínez Sagi, a character that comes to him fascinated for many years.

And now

is rescued , by the poet Muriel Rukeyser, a pioneer of the politicization of intimacy, in a brilliant translation by Ruth Llana.

The writer searches for the essence of her country's society, wondering about its contradictions and miseries.

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