Todas las vidas

The book of dream lives from pop music. The reader is interested in the lives of anonymous people, those who do not participate in cultural production, institutional decisions or political organization. What does a man from a working-class neighborhood or a woman without resources feed on emotionally? Of the pop narrative that is in the songs, for example. Some of these characters have completely absurd endings, but the path of a passionate life is worth it. Xosé Ramón Pena is part of the great Galician tradition of storytellers. Knowing how to tell a story comes above all from the tradition of a storytelling culture. Xosé Ramón Pena knows, as Fernández Flórez or Cunqueiro knew, how to build characters that border on the grotesque, treat them with a tender irony and take them through a story of dream and loss that leaves the reader with a memory of what it means to live.