El jardín de Reinhardt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Jacov Reinhardt, obsessed with composing a treatise on the essence of melancholy, left his small town in Croatia to go deep into the depths of the South American jungle with his faithful scribe, in a quixotic quest in pursuit of Emiliano Gómez Carrasquilla, his illustrious mentor. Following the hallucinated Reinhardt in his company - the one who feeds a quantity of cocaine that not even Freud himself would have managed to manage - is to enter a fascinating literary maze that stretches from the chronicles of the 16th century by Ulrich Schmidl to the decadentists of the fin de siècle , and in which the novels of Roberto Bolaño or Mathias Énard and the cinema of Fitzcarraldo's Werner Herzog and the more lysergic Terry Gilliam also resonate.