The Writer
Raúl Sanz García
Editorial inexistente 2026, 232 pp.
Currently in Spanish only
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What if there were a secret society determined to wipe literary rubbish off the face of the earth?
This is the story of José González, a mediocre aspiring writer who will be dragged into a singular literary epic. It is Fermín Cerro, a caustic and celebrated author, who pulls him out of his delusions of success and sets him face to face with the harsh reality of the literary world. For Cerro, the decline of letters is the decline of the world itself: rubbish and stupidity cover everything. To fight against such a tragedy, a secret conclave has designed a grandiloquent, preposterous plan — the Great Universal Purge: to wipe from the world’s memory the millions of written works that do not meet a minimum standard of quality. To that end, they are recruiting henchmen like JG, whom they entrust with the all-important task of selecting the small number of novels of “science fiction and fantasy in Spanish” that will be spared. With similar assignments, a parade of picturesque figures will appear, each with their own allocated niche.
The counterweight comes in the form of a mysterious unfinished manuscript that Fermín Cerro offers to José: the intimate account of a man who withdraws to an abandoned rural world in search of silence. That text, lyrical and existential in tone, serves as a consolation for the disappointments that will hit the defenceless protagonist. From that point on, his undertaking will be to find a story that completes the manuscript so that it can be published under his own name alongside that of the prestigious Fermín Cerro.
Amidst his adventures, José will meet Azucena Panadero, an enigmatic poetess who opens up a third narrative plane: a story of fantasy and love that promises to redeem José from his failures and reconcile him with his own voice.
The Writer is a novel about creation, mediocrity, the ego, the love of literature, and the search for meaning in a world saturated with noise. An ironic, tender, and critical story for readers who enjoy intelligent novels with humour, metaliterature, and an emotional undercurrent.
ISBN (print): 979-8242208384