“La migración is a jewel of literary recklessness, raw in its unrestrainedness but brimming with talent and very high moments. Pablo Maurette is a magician.”

“Voracious, playful, and proudly light, the pages in La migración lavish doses of humor and intelligence in a debut novel that is more than promising.”

“A dystopian detective novel with a political aim.”

“The so-called ‘theater within the theater,’ that form of fiction that is so Shakespearean (paradigmatic in Hamlet when it makes the actors represent his father’s murder at the hands of Claudius) is a narrative mechanism that is almost always fertile, and—in the case of La migración—also functional.”

“Biography, detective novel, philosophy, list, letters, personal diary, essay, along with the canonical and the traditional. In a lateral manner, the progression of the fictional owes its verisimilitude to such an accumulation, one that operates subtly, like a silent clock.”

“In his first novel, La migración—full of infinite erudition domesticated by an implausible noir novel plot and packed with humor, science fiction, and occultism—Pablo Maurette recreates some of his obsessive ghosts, those that wander through his marvelous, incisive, and strange essays.”

“When I read a group of [Maurette’s] essays in the books EL SENTIDO OLVIDADO and LA CARNE VIVA, I promised myself I would never miss a publication by this author. In these two works, I was not only surprised by his dazzling erudition and the elegance of his style, but also the uniqueness of the topics touched (...) and his watchmaker’s precision with language. These characteristics are also felt throughout the narration of this story, where three men attempt to understand the cause of a mutual friend’s disappearance 25 years back after sticking his nose into the investigation of the assassination of a Romanian university professor.”