What remains of life

Federico Jeanmaire

NARRATIVE, HÍBRIDA. 2024, 130 PAGES

In this book, Jenmaire travels through cemeteries in Berlin, Buenos Aires and his native Baradero as he reflects on the passage of time, family, bonds, old age and death. An intimate, moving and vital invitation.

Alejandra Kamiya says: «A cemetery flaneur, perhaps the most exquisite breed of flaneurs, who ceases to be "eternal" because he thinks of that moment in which all human beings are equal. Who left behind the childhood in which "God existed" and enters the old age that "begins in the gaze of others". Who defines over and over again the word "rest" just interacting with some characters among which there is a turtle whose owner regrets that it is not a dog while she caresses it on her skirt or gathers Chinese roses to feed it. A walk in which Jeanmaire speaks truths the size of that God that no longer exists, but as if in a low voice».


«A delightful book on funeral rites. A very personal inquiry that goes from the necropolis of Berlin to the one of Baradero, passing through the Chacarita.»

Clarín

 

«Halfway between autofiction and autobiographical essay, the book seems to evade the pigeonholes that mark the genres. If it has to be labeled, let it be this: good literature, period.»
Revista El Sur

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish HÍBRIDA

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