When, almost a decade ago, Flavia Company (Buenos Aires, 1963) published Haru (Catedral, 2016), she managed to realize two of her dreams: "To tell the story of an entire life," that of a Japanese girl who began a long journey of learning by studying archery, and, equally or even more importantly, "to disappear into the text." Since then, Company has not published any novels or books of short stories under her own name: besides The carnivorous plant (Proa, 2021) and Regrets (Navona, 2023), Both written by Andrea Mayo, has been delving deeper into Haru's universe through several books:Magókoro (Cathedral, 2019) is the letter that Haru's father writes to his daughter one day, which we hadn't read in the first novel, I don't need to be real anymore. (Univers, 2020) explains a trip around the world narrated by Haru and Theory of the remainder (Comanegra, 2022) reflects on existence as a path towards reconciliation," explains Casa Abacus with a new contribution to the galaxy of the protagonist fresh out of the oven.

On the tombstone that remembers the writer Cesare PaveseIn the cemetery of Santo Stefano Belbo, his hometown, one of the last phrases of The craft of living –the diary in which, among many other matters, he ends up announcing the gesture final (that of his suicide): "I have given poetry to men." He gave it to them in verse and prosaic form, and made the effort – successful – to understand the human soul, even though he drowned in his own.