¡Adelante, Cronófobos!
¡Adelante, Cronófobos! is a fragmentary, hybrid, and confessional novel that circles around an obsession with time, loss, and the impossibility of fixing lived experience in place. Told through diaries, letters, intimate essays, and acts of memorial evocation, the book reconstructs the emotional and intellectual life of a young writer through scenes of childhood, family relationships, literary passions, personal griefs, and metaphysical fantasies. With a voice that is at once hyper-lucid and vulnerable, the narrator maps out a chronophobia—a fear that everything will pass, fade, be erased—and attempts to resist it through the very act of writing.
Between the death of a cat, family relics, and the echoes of a lost love, the protagonist enters into dialogue with his sister Amanda (scientist, sculptor, private mythological figure), with his deceased uncle (an aspiring writer), and with the authors who accompany him—Leopardi, Salinger, Proust, Josep Pla—constructing a personal encyclopedia of loss where tragedy, humor, and radical intimacy coexist. The novel is also a cultural artifact of a generation shaped by digital nostalgia, anticipatory grief, liquid relationships, and the inheritance of failure.
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«Diego has that obsessive, myth-making mind capable of finding in the death of his cat—a passing attributable to old age, with no mystery at all—the embodiment of an entire creed.» Tom C. Avendaño, El País Semanal
«Through its veins runs a wicked verbal swagger, a bibliophilic disease, an honest
unruliness, a lyricism unafraid of passionate love.» Luna Miguel, author of Incensurable
«It imposes itself as a jewel without a close lineage to justify, endorse, or explain it.» Nadal Suau, Babelia
«Thankfully, there are still writers like Diego Garrido, willing to lock himself in his room with his books, his obsessions, his body, and write, write, write, and write.» Jorge Burón, Sustrato
