Tan difícil como raro

"If salvation were at hand and could be achieved without great labor, how could it be that almost everyone scorns it? But all that is lofty is as difficult as it is rare", Spinoza wrote. In October 1991, the characters in this story coincide in the Faculty of Philosophy: the brilliant Gloria, who soon became disenchanted with the university to hand over her intelligence to private companies; Manuel, who seeks in reason and books a brake on his darkest impulses; the capricious Bea, who is used to causing all kinds of misfortunes and always coming out of them unscathed; Roberto, an eccentric aspiring painter; or Ana, who encloses within herself all the rage and all the sweetness in the world. They are young and having fun, they have big plans or maybe delusions, they do a lot of stupid things. Until one of them commits suicide and things get serious. Why are some people broken and others saved? As difficult as rare is not intended to answer impossible questions. It does aspire to offer a generational portrait, among a thousand other probables, of those who were born in the seventies, enjoyed the splendor of the nineties and collapsed with the new century. It also tells a love story, which everyone believes is perfect, but which explodes into pieces due to the onset of mental illness. Happiness then becomes a constant fight against emptiness and a succession of psychiatric admissions. Even this novel could be seen as a ghost story in which it is not the dead who torment the living, but rather the contrary: the living are in no way willing to forget the dead, and for this reason they persecute them, harass them. They interrogate them and refuse to forgive them.