incomplete prose

Texts by Eduardo Escobar that have appeared in small anthologies that are no longer available, and in newspapers and magazines, most of them in El Tiempo de Bogotá, during the last twenty years. Despite the apparent disorder, this book maintains a secret unity. The same themes intertwine and intertwine: women, food, animals, the emblematic, as well as the most humble and disdained, language, literature, the spiritual leaders of the generation that flourished, literally, on the brink of age. sixty. Furthermore, the background and the climate are always the same: the great spiritual crisis of modern and postmodern man, the feverish, sad landscape of the great cities of the last century. It is a book endowed with varied and truthful information, culled, always for the benefit of irony, from the mass of uncertain data that we have about this world. This saves him from banality, useless reproach and bitterness. He does not make a diatribe against the way things are. Nor is it the offhand comment of an indifferent witness. The flexible writing, the well-hammered vocabulary, the tone of these small essays, the joy they reflect and the vast readings they attest, justify Incomplete Prose above any consideration.

It is an intelligent book, and kind and poignant at the same time.