Utilidad de las desgracias

His childhood in a suburb of San Sebastián, his memory of the pain in the dark years in the Basque Country, his experience as a teacher in Germany, his rituals when writing and meeting readers, some walks and trips, the lessons extracted from a careful reading of Albert Camus: this volume brings together the best literary articles by Fernando Aramburu. They are delicious pieces full of humor, sensitivity and wisdom, and can be read as narrative notes, scraps of memories or as a small vital treatise based on a few certainties that serve as a moral compass. A welcoming book, on the path of humanism, serene, colorful, with a taste for everyday details, a celebration of birds and squirrels, a love of literature and a humor against pedantry, a ridicule of fanatics and solidarity with the victims.