Hombre al agua

Desi is a loser, an anarchist spirit with the soul of a philosopher who lives in a modest pension in Lavapiés called El Tesoro. For the love of a woman he enters a circle of conspirators who have baptized themselves as the Insurgents and in which, among other delusional and picturesque characters, a millionaire who wants to end capitalism and a priest who wishes to destroy militate. the Church from within. Parodic and surreal at times, with an acid sense of humor, Man overboard is an amazing and lucid exercise in style in which, through the grotesque, Javier Reverte draws a faithful portrait of a city and its inhabitants worthy of the best pages of Valle-Inclán. If in Luces de bohemia the heroes of the Greek tragedy came to look at each other in the distorting mirrors of the Callejón del Gato, the protagonist of this picaresque tragicomedy observes his reflection in the dirty puddles of the Plaza de Lavapiés and throws himself fully into life, even if it means getting wet.