Perictione o de la libertad

Can a person free himself from the bonds of family, academia, and friendship? Is madness the most extreme mode of freedom? Is it possible to read and write without strings? Ernesto Castro's second novel tells the story of young Perictione after her arrival in Paris in 1968. The daughter of a Greek-American family, our narrator leaves her native Tarpon Springs behind to open up to the world and the future. Thanks to the letters that Perictione writes to his mother, to one of his five brothers (who fled to Prague), to his thesis supervisor and to his best childhood friend, Ele Marsal, we will witness one of the most turbulent years of the century. xx. Above all, we will witness the protagonist's clash with the idea of freedom, in its most varied uses and abuses: from the crisis of communism in Eastern Europe to the assassination of Martin Luther King, from astrological determinism to prejudices about bisexuality, with the suggestive company of Professor Marcel Nonclerc and student Françoise Dujoncquoy. Perictione o De la libertad is a learning novel about the human condition and a recovery of the epistolary genre. It is also the second volume of this Platonic Trilogy, the narrative debut of the most brilliant thinker of his generation.