Las olas son las mismas

Description

Words, ideas, and images vibrate with force in this first narrative venture by Ariel Richards, now reissued after its original publication in 2016.

A literary exercise free of labels, between poetry, essay, and novel—genres to which the author has no intention of conforming—in which two narratives intertwine, overlap, and unfold, taking turns between wintry, icy New York, with its snowstorms, and the bright, torrid Valparaíso in the opposite hemisphere.

Through a travel notebook accidentally found by a literature student in a university library, and through flashes of images that pass quickly before us, a reflection is woven on the nature of storytelling and of identity itself: what is written and what remains in blank spaces; what is felt, what is expressed, and what is kept silent; the fears that bind us and what sets us free. On distance and endings. On nature itself, its permanence and its transformation. Because the waves are the same… or never repeat.

Valeria Vegas