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This novel places us in the future world of Land in Blue (Rhapsody). There, a mature woman lives with Flor Azul, a drone through which she holds conversations with her friend Bibi, who is actually the voice of an actress. The woman, lonely and forgetful, lives separated from her daughters, Selva and Tina, each one protected and watched over by another drone: the disenchanted Obsolescence and the adolescent Cucú. The woman inhabits a world governed by the virtual, the parcel companies and the programs of the heart. A world ruled by exploitation, police repression and fear of disease and death, in which thanatopractors preserve corpses from rot. The soundtrack of this city-country-world is that of the metal shutters that come down suddenly, one of the leitmotifs that gather around themselves, forming loops and waves, in this dystopian buffoonery. But dystopian like the hopeful dystopias little birds that warn of leaking firedamp... Full of winks and references (from high culture to television gossip, going through all kinds of pop paraphernalia), the novel is a futuristic pamphlet, a cyborg symphony, a cry of protest, a choreography of desolation, a vanitas more modern than postmodern, and, above all, a neo-romantic novel of drones in love with women whom they care for and spy on, Coppelias inversas, sentimental vampires, contempt for the god of the algorithm, dreams, mirrors, enchantments and revolutions: spring can emerge from the darkness supported by the most unpredictable beings.

Baricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with which humans say something urgent and vital to organize their anxieties and beliefs. The virus as an undemocratic entity that strengthens the powerful and destroys the poor. The pandemic as a battle between fear and bravery, tendency for change and longing for the past. A lucid analysis, nothing obvious.

A lucid and erudite reflection on the relationship we establish with books. What criterion presupposes the ordering and arrangement of books? Written with exquisite erudition and a fascinating tendency to centrifugal order, How to order a library is an authentic lesson not only on how to sort, but on how to edit, write, buy, sell and, above all, read the books.

Magris recreates the journey through the cultural landscape that crosses the 3,000 kilometers of river. Like the Danube, European culture crosses national, human, and psychological boundaries. The trip would be the way to save those borders as saved by the river, but remains above disaster and destruction.

This trilogy brings together three works by author Sergio Pitol: The Art of Escape, The Journey, and The Magician from Vienna. In The Art of Escape Pitol proposes a new form, in The Journey Pitol writes of a return to the Soviet Union, and in The Magician from Vienna the author dissolves boundaries.

These are texts of extraordinary lucidity, some of which received the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award. They reveal the curiosity of the chronicler and the ability of a great writer that sees beyond the apparent, to a glimpse of the world to come.