La Casa del Tiempo

Hace ya muchos a?os que Orlando se march? de su aldea natal, perdida en la campi?a italiana. Ahora, su carrera de pintor, al igual que el resto de su vida, se encuentra en una especie de letargo, un leve extrav?o que pretende encauzar volviendo a los paisajes de su ni?ez: all? descubrir? que la vieja casona rosa de su maestra est? en venta y la compra sin saber muy bien por qu?. Sin embargo, como se anticipa ya desde el t?tulo, la casa no ser? un elemento pasivo en esta historia: comienzan a suceder algunos fen?menos ins?litos que le desvelan rastros ocultos y le har?n creer que tal vez haya sido la casa quien en realidad lo ha elegido a ?l. En este viaje al pasado, en el que nuestro protagonista se sumerge para encontrar el sentido de su presente, el suspense y la melancol?a se al?an inesperadamente para alumbrar una bella novela intimista salpicada de atardeceres luminosos, huertos y flores. Laura Mancinelli realiza un hermoso ejercicio de introspecci?n cuyo hilo conductor es una de las preguntas que han asediado al hombre desde siempre: por qu? hacemos lo que hacemos?, cu?l es el sentido de ciertas decisiones?



It has been many years since Orlando left his native village, lost in the Italian countryside. Now, his career as a painter, like the rest of his life, is in a kind of lethargy, a slight loss that he intends to channel back to the landscapes of his childhood: there he will discover that the old pink house of his teacher is in selling and buying without really knowing why. However, as anticipated from the title, the house will not be a passive element in this story: some unusual phenomena begin to happen that reveal hidden traces and will make you believe that perhaps it was the house that actually chose it. to the. In this journey to the past, in which our protagonist plunges to find the meaning of his present, suspense and melancholy unexpectedly come together to illuminate a beautiful intimate novel dotted with luminous sunsets, orchards and flowers. Laura Mancinelli performs a beautiful introspection exercise whose common thread is one of the questions that have besieged mankind forever: why do we do what we do? What is the meaning of certain decisions?