Frágiles humanos

After the success of his previous book, La playa y el tiempo, this Fragile Humans now appears, where Ernesto Calabuig, with a varied cast of characters and situations, continues his reflection on the perplexity of the rapid flow of human time. In times as turbulent as those we live in, which have so easily revealed our essential fragility and our feet of clay, Calabuig's gaze places us equally before the lives of a young Italian guitarist, some old repeating schoolmates around a song by Battiato, a German musician portrayed with the perspective of thirty years, the difficulties of the separation of a marriage in the seventies and eighties, a mysterious church and the claim of a phrase from one of its walls, the life of an elderly bookseller Berliner who contemplates a dazzling orange moon, or an elderly couple cyclists from Madrid, a wedding in glorious times of Miguel Indurain, a glamorous vacationer on the French coast, a beautiful friendship with the singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute, a lonely writer fascinated by a journalist and his photographs, the unannounced arrival of the covid into the life of a prestigious art historian.