It is difficult to emerge unscathed from the stories that Xavier Mas Craviotto (Navàs, 1996) brings together in Expressionless animals (The Other, 2025). The writer, author of novels such as Slow death (2019, Documenta Award) and The skin of the world (2023), now publishes ten profound and unsettling stories inhabited by characters immersed in failure. Written in exquisite prose made of precise words and explosive metaphors, each of these stories is a journey through the human soul in its lowest moments.