Los domingos

The reader will find in these pages very diverse subjects, connected by the particular look of the author. Martínez tells us about his life, about the neighborhood where he was born, about an early trip to Paris with the music of the Sex Pistols in the background, about his rebellious father who became independent, about a trip to Cuba in which his head appeared through a window to see the library in the abandoned house of Lezama Lima, of his passage through a remote war or of a neighbor with a past and a parrot. But he also tells us about the legendary Northwest Passage, Darwin, chimpanzees and their wars and bonobos and their socializing use of sex, Wittgenstein, Finland, couples, Concorde, acid... All observed with a shrewd look and portrayed with a refined pen, with a lively language without corsets that allows him to sharpen the everyday and tackle the extraordinary. The result can perhaps be read as a guide for the perplexed. It is journalism. It is literature. It's the bomb.