En todo hay una grieta y por ella entra la luz
Patricio Pron

FICTION | 2026 | ~300 pages

A shapeshifting novel that is part essay, part biography, and part philosophical treatise that questions how we can write and live today in the midst of societal collapse

In a dark New York that is still reeling from the pandemic and in the shadow of Trump's new authoritarianism, an author is commissioned to write a biography of Benjamin Fondane: a French poet and filmmaker of Romanian origin, a witness to Parisian surrealism, and the creator of a cursed film in Buenos Aires who was ultimately murdered in Auschwitz. But the project is quickly interrupted: illness, grief, and a devastating event open a rift that allows the writer's family's past, the disappearance of a landscape, the ruins of the century, and the echoes of a fox whose gaze revealed a gift to his immigrant grandfather in Argentina to seep in. En todo hay una grieta y por ella entra la luz is a hybrid novel, halfway between an essay, an autobiography, an apocryphal biography, and a philosophical treatise—a text traversed by notes that expand upon it and a text that questions how we should live and write today in the midst of collapse. It also acts as an elegy for a crumbling world: a physical world, but also a symbolic and moral one. And it is an ambitious, desperate, necessary attempt to restore meaning to this world through imagination, artistic creation, and attention, as Simone Weil advocated for. 

A meditation on finitude, ecological mourning, visible and invisible violence, art as resistance, and the possibility of hope. With echoes of W. G. Sebald, Sigrid Nunez, Zadie Smith, Annie Dillard, and Rachel Cusk, this book confirms Patricio Pron as one of the most unique and daring narrators of his generation: radical, elegant, fierce, and melancholic. A writer who transforms desolation into vivid thought and narrative into luminously memorable emotions.

RIGHTS: spanish ANAGRAMA

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Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará
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Nosotros caminamos en sueños
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El libro tachado
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La vida interior de las plantas de interior
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El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan
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El comienzo de la primavera
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