The apocalyptic Barcelona of Alberto Díaz

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A few days before the state of alarm was declared in Spain and the entire country entered into a mandatory quarantine Alberto Díaz presented his second novel in Barcelona: La cólera Ediciones Oblicuas exposing in his own way what could be the end of the world. During the presentation between jokes and anecdotes the writer Federico Navarro described it as a “hard” work coming from the bowels of a writer who likes to address critical situations and play with upsetting language. What he failed to say was that it could also be considered a premonitory novel but this evidently only occurs to us now that is after Barcelona has experienced its own apocalypse.

To recreate that world that is ending Alberto Díaz could have turned to the anger of the CDRs breaking the rules and destroying businesses he could have been inspired by the incompetence of a Quim Torra willing to destroy coexistence or even the trend UAE Phone Number of groups of young people in occupying the homes of those who have worked all their lives to buy it but since he is a pure-bred rocker a man who has been describing the most vibrant musical productions and concerts on the national and international scene for years he naturally opted for something slightly more electric and bloodthirsty.In “La cólera” by Alberto Díaz everything happens inadvertently just as it has also happened with the Coronavirus.



Nobody imagines that the suicide of a man in the subway in the middle of the morning portends an endless chain of events that will definitively end the tranquility of the citizens and lead them to lock themselves in their homes store food madly and pray on their sofas for May Armageddon not swallow them. Here the end of the world is presented as a sudden nervous breakdown a sudden implosion of behavior – which quickly results in a horrifying picture that recalls the worst scenes of zombie movies and other horror creations – and spreads everywhere It invades everything starting with the place where Vítor Antona works the great protagonist of a story with a clear beginning and an improbable end.