Alma, nostalgia, armonía y otros relatos sobre las palabras

Dear reader, you have in your hands a book about words, about life and the secrets of words like "character", "person", "health", "disease", "humanity", "curiosity", "normality", "melancholy", "nostalgia", "memory", "souvenir", "identity", "imagination", "fantasy", "chance", "fate", "mystery", "balance", "harmony"... This exploration is carried out hand in hand with the literary works that use them, the dictionaries that define them and the speakers that keep them alive. This is, therefore, a history of words and of those who use them -the speaker, the lecturer, the writer, the novelist, the poet-, who gradually leave their mark on the language. The result is a delightful essay, intended for anyone who loves the words with which they think, speak, and write. Because we are what we speak, or what we think and do not say, what we keep silent about. Written by a narrator and a philologist, this is a book that is both erudite and entertaining, which is divided into two parts: in the first, the narrator -Soledad Puértolas- explores as a writer and reader the life of words and the centuries that he has our language behind him; in the second, the philologist -Elena Cianca- adds an academic analysis to the paths of the first. Both perspectives complement each other and stem from the same passion for the language.