La viajera de noche

Currently turning years has become a misfortune or, at least, a process that society rejects and silences. Faced with this reality, this beautiful work reveals not only the stereotypes and prejudices that surround middle age, but also the value that the feeling of finitude and the experience of what has been lived can have. Intermingling personal experiences, anecdotes and references to authors such as Herman Hesse, Annie Ernaux, Elias Canetti, Marguerite Duras, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes and a long etcetera, this book shows us that, if adding years is seen as fatality, knowing how to age is a possibility and even a privilege. There is no doubt that old age supposes an acceptance, perhaps a splitting of oneself -you see yourself different from what you have been-, but this acceptance involves maintaining the desire to live. The Night Traveler is not a guide to aging well, it is a cry against the invisibility and rejection to which old men and, above all, old women are exposed, as well as an invitation to oppose the demand of contemporary society to that we grow older in silence and in a hidden way. As Simone de Beauvoir said: "Old age is a matter of civilization. Let's continue the battle!"