Los últimos días de Roger Federer

What happens to the career of great artists and athletes when they reach old age? Do they achieve a renewed serenity or succumb to torment? As our body and mind deteriorate, how do we move on?. Geoff Dyer reflects on the aftermath of time, looking back at the last days of great writers, painters, footballers, musicians and tennis stars (yes, Roger Federer too). With a biting tone and unmatched lucidity, Dyer brings us closer to critical moments of geniuses who gave up physically or mentally when their careers reached the pinnacle or who reinvented themselves in defiance of convention. Among his exquisite selection, Dyer entrusts us with Nietzsche's mental deterioration, the new sounds that Dylan found after a creative crisis, Turner's last paintings with a certain abstract air, the brilliant pen of Jean Rhys in her maturity and the magical final quatrains of Beethoven. The Last Days of Roger Federer is an ingenious and festive reflection on finitude and on art as a way of enduring over time. A moving, agile and lucid work that gives us back the hope of finding meaning in the last years of life.