Contemplaciones

Written during the first months of confinement, these Contemplations by Zadie Smith are an acute exercise in observing the realities, sensations, ideas and questions that have emerged in an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality? And resist? How to value suffering, always relative? What place do others occupy when we are alone or forced to live together? What have contempt and compassion meant in the midst of this crisis? Ultimately, when an unknown world erupts, what is revealed to us about the previous one? Brief but immensely suggestive and powerful, Contemplations is a unique book in which intimacy and tenderness coexist with irony, lucidity and even indignation. Zadie Smith thus opens up a generous space for thought, wide enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened and what they would like to see happen in the future.