The Old Friends
Original title: Los viejos amigos
A group of old comrades get together for dinner. Once they were united by a common project: the revolution. Now, so many years later, they are revising the meaning of their own existences. Looking at their lives as something provisional, full of emptiness, guilt, disappointment, bitterness and betrayal. Los viejos amigos, written with a literary voice that has no room for complacency, proposes a reflection on the human condition and the chances of the individual to contribute to the flow of history. A novel of obsessive voices that seeks answers in a time of a crisis of values, an age when human beings have renounced control of their own destinies.
A group of old comrades get together for dinner. Once they were united by a common project: the revolution. Now, so many years later, they are revising the meaning of their own existences. Looking at their lives as something provisional, full of emptiness, guilt, disappointment, bitterness and betrayal. Los viejos amigos, written with a literary voice that has no room for complacency, proposes a reflection on the human condition and the chances of the individual to contribute to the flow of history. A novel of obsessive voices that seeks answers in a time of a crisis of values, an age when human beings have renounced control of their own destinies.
