The Past
Original title: El pasado
After 13 years of love, Rímini and Sofia have decided to separate. For him, in his 30s, everything seems new again. But his relationship with Sofia is not dead, it has only changed shape. And when love returns and surprises him, ambushing him in a dark corner, it has the face of horror. Sofia reappears once and again on his horizon to win him back, to torture him, or to save his life. Thus, Rímini sinks into an abyss of black comedy, until his agony changes drastically when he meets the ‘Women who Love Too Much’. El pasado is an exemplary narration, the bastard child of Marcel Proust and Seinfeld. An extremely subtle book, to be read with emotion and with a laugh frozen on the reader’s lips. A story about the methamorphosis that passions suffer when they go into the black hole of posterity.
After 13 years of love, Rímini and Sofia have decided to separate. For him, in his 30s, everything seems new again. But his relationship with Sofia is not dead, it has only changed shape. And when love returns and surprises him, ambushing him in a dark corner, it has the face of horror. Sofia reappears once and again on his horizon to win him back, to torture him, or to save his life. Thus, Rímini sinks into an abyss of black comedy, until his agony changes drastically when he meets the ‘Women who Love Too Much’. El pasado is an exemplary narration, the bastard child of Marcel Proust and Seinfeld. An extremely subtle book, to be read with emotion and with a laugh frozen on the reader’s lips. A story about the methamorphosis that passions suffer when they go into the black hole of posterity.
