Elogio de la abyección

Most of our favorite fictional characters have not been chosen for their virtues, but rather for the fascination and unease that their vileness arouses in us. Like the forbidden apple in Eden, the representation of the baseness and disorder of the human spirit also shines in the garden of literature, whose beauty, at times, exerts an undeniable attraction on the reader. These pages offer a journey through fifteen works starring abject paper, illustrious names that conquered readers at the time and helped shape the modern novel. No matter how much outrageous or terrible pain they suffer, characters such as Austen, Stendhal, Flaubert, Kafka or Berto arouse in us the most delicate admiration and keep alive the flame of literature, which often burns in the very heart from hell.