El síndrome de Diógenes

"It all started the day I started barking at the Bulldog", thus begins 'Diogenes syndrome', the first-person account of a contemporary cynic, an extravagant guy who, in the middle of life's journey, undertakes a crusade against what he calls the pernicious sect of ladies with the low purse his arm, letting himself be carried away by an increasingly canine instinct that will make him suffer a growing social rejection, will push him to the margins of the city and will end up distancing him without turning back from his fellows. Written in dialogue with Kafka's' La metamorfosis' and Tormes' 'Lazarillo', and with the classical doctrines of the venerable Antisthenes, Crates or Diogenes of Sinope as background echoes, this bright and acid 'nouvelle' by Juan Ramón Santos proposes an exercise in cynicism, a story of resistance in times of crisis. The story of a misfit who barks out of an environment that oppresses him to gradually find accommodation, building his personal refuge from the elements, a place where no one overshadows him, where no one denies him, with his mere presence, the sunlight.