The Maps Scale
Original title: La escala de los mapas
Sergio Prim is a staid and solitary middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly in love. A geographer by trade, but with a broken radar when it comes to navigating human relationships, he is thrown into a psuchological crisis by the romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession. Haunted by a series of hallucinations, Prim attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in an obsessive metaphysical quest: he will protect himself and his lover by mapping the way to a place in which love never results in disillusionment. The result is an intimate and mercilessly revealing self-examination of a meager and fearful life challegend by desire.
«What is astonishing about this novel is the originality of its narrative strategies in harmony with the rhythm of its prose» (Carmen Martín Gaite).
«A fable of love-laid-waste, an almost scientific story of the anguish of existence, a profoundly and deliberately distorted image of perverse reality, its space and time, a tragedy replete with tenderness and humor» (Abc).
«Gopegui is one of our most outstanding young names (in Spanish literature)» (El País).
«One of the best -if not the best- writers of her generation» (El Mundo).
Sergio Prim is a staid and solitary middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly in love. A geographer by trade, but with a broken radar when it comes to navigating human relationships, he is thrown into a psuchological crisis by the romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession. Haunted by a series of hallucinations, Prim attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in an obsessive metaphysical quest: he will protect himself and his lover by mapping the way to a place in which love never results in disillusionment. The result is an intimate and mercilessly revealing self-examination of a meager and fearful life challegend by desire.
«What is astonishing about this novel is the originality of its narrative strategies in harmony with the rhythm of its prose» (Carmen Martín Gaite).
«A fable of love-laid-waste, an almost scientific story of the anguish of existence, a profoundly and deliberately distorted image of perverse reality, its space and time, a tragedy replete with tenderness and humor» (Abc).
«Gopegui is one of our most outstanding young names (in Spanish literature)» (El País).
«One of the best -if not the best- writers of her generation» (El Mundo).
