The last notebook of José Jiménez Lozano

Updated:02/02/2021 01:12h

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In the silence of his library, a man watches the days pass over the infinite landscape of the Castilian plateau. He sees them, as they can only be truly seen: through the books that have been accompanying him. These books are the candle that gives birth to the world, in his gaze, in a new light. He just turned eighty-nine. It is the last classic of the Castilian language. Contemplate, read, write down. From these annotations, the Diaries from Jose Jimenez Lozano, those nine volumes that include the notebooks that accompanied him for almost half a century, from those Three Red Notebooks (1973-1983) until these Evocations and Presences (2018-2020) that they were to close