El enunciado y la constelación
Franco Félix
NOVEL | 2026 | 220 pages
A novel as free-spirited as it is moving, in which memory, imagination and humour defy the laws of grief.
Panchito has just died. His son is standing beside him when he discovers that a scent – guava, honey, ripe fruit – is emanating from the body. That sweet scent triggers an unstoppable cascade of memories, associations, questions and fantasies. Caught between grief and disbelief, the son's mind resists accepting the loss and leaps ceaselessly from childhood to mythology, from anecdotes to the most outlandish tales, from vagabonds to the Inuit, from spilt milk to beers, and from there to the furthest corners of the universe. Between elegy and comedy, between a torrential monologue and an intimate confession, this novel transforms grief into an extraordinary verbal odyssey. A dazzling work on loss, memory and the stories we tell ourselves to survive the loss of those we love.
RIGHTS: spanish SEXTO PISO
“I have faith in Mexican literature because Franco Félix is part of it. This book, so full of rhythm, sadness and truth, is the most beautiful book he has ever written.”
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