Felices como bestias

From Jaime Gil de Biedma to the pop of the 2000s, a novel about the search for identity.After being left without a job, without money and with a broken heart, a 26-year-old decides to leave Madrid and seek refuge in his native Segovia, from which he had always tried to flee. Forced to live with his father, he dedicates his time to licking the wounds of a work and love failure that is also a generational failure. One day he meets a mysterious character who claims to be a poet. He will soon discover that it is none other than Jaime Gil de Biedma, whose ashes have rested in the cemetery for more than 30 years.This is how reality and literature, life and references, intertwine to talk about the importance of the traces that others left before us on the road. Guided by the figure of Jaime Gil de Biedma and by that of many other literary ghosts that permeate our reality, but also by his own memories, the young man will have to face his contradictions, which go through the way he relates to his sexual identity, to accept a love that continues to hurt or to reconcile with a landscape, with a forgotten Castile, where an overflowing life and beauty beats. Only then can he understand that he is not so different.