Los ancianos siderales

El Cavernal, where this novel takes place, may seem like a reception establishment full of elderly people of a wide variety of species and run by the Clementine sisters. It could also be thought that it is an aerolith detached from some stratospheric beyond where neither age nor time have anything to do with those who inhabit it. Or, ultimately, of a spaceship about to depart with the most clever and chimerical old men, who have been abducted. In any case, what happens in the Cave there is no one to remedy it and everything is involved in a kind of crazy adventure predictably dangerous. The novel that takes us to that establishment can be very funny and, at the same time, mysterious and disconcerting. The imagery between expressionist and surrealist with which it is written and plotted has the hypnotic air of events and characters that are difficult to forget, although one must take the risk of remaining as readers irretrievably confined in the Cave, an experience as disturbing as it is hilarious.