A book a day: Eduardo Rojas: And just nothing

Original Language: Español

Year of publication: 2025

Valoración: Quite recommended

What things! Sometimes, you get a book by an unknown author who, a priori, does not attract your attention too much and it turns out that, despite (or precisely because of) that lack of expectations, you find a text and an author of those who promise that you will read again. That is what happened to me with this And just nothing of the Mexican based in Galicia Eduardo Rojas.

It is a brief novel, with just 140 pages and 95 chapters !!!, characterized by a style of the most personal and a poetic of abandonment that links it to books like First was the sea by Tomás González.

The premise of the text could not be simpler: Napoleon Chicomóztoc, who is not very good about the key, disappears chasing the rain.

Echoes of one hundred years of solitude in the plot, right? It is not the only link with the Colombian’s great work. And just nothing Connects both with poetic realism and the way of talking about the helplessness of García Márquez. Because this novelty is a story of abandoned beings, misfortunes and penances, fears, pain and memories, sanity and madness.

And then he had no choice but to accept that the time, again, had exceeded him on the right and that he had been thrown to the side of the road, surrounded by Quelites, just like a cool holly.

What differentiates A better place of One hundred years of loneliness It is the form of the text. We are not facing a torrential prose. On the contrary, brief phrase and short chapters mark the rhythm of a text splashed with an image with great poetic load. For example, that semihundida bike in the mangrove mud or the mother muttering in the mud.

And there they both stayed: hugged as two convicted who no longer expect anything, only – if perhaps – that the night falls soon.

In short, and with the exception of the occasional reiteration, a more than pleasant surprise that of this author and this text absolutely unknown to me and for the general public. Let’s see if for a short time!