Ventura & Co.

Does that sound like Lev O'Leory? I would be surprised. So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange. Or they must have thought they knew who he was: a character, a heteronym, or an invention of Salvador Company. Well, from the moment you look at the cover of this book, you've noticed that it's not like that: O'Leory has always been what in the Anglo-Saxon world, where he lives, is called a ghost writer, that of Companion in particular. In our area, where until recently we had dissected pygmies in museums, we would say that Lev was Mr. Company's black. Black on white, then. And isn't it precisely this problematic authorial relationship that emerges in the novel that you now have in your hands? Because the plot of Ventura & Co. it is in the not-too-distant future where organ transplants and teleportation are as common as getting an elevator or taking a bus. Or is it not translating, after all, a cultural teleportation? And reading a book in our language, even though it was written in another, isn't it a kind of transplant? That being said, it will not surprise you to know that the narrator and protagonist, Santiago Ventura, Tura or Tureta for friends, could not leave his research unscathed... But this, contrary to what the classic said, is not another story, but the one you can start reading by flipping the book over and opening it.