Vida de Pablo = Paul Life

This novel can be read as the generational chronicle of a youth condemned to marginality in the leisure industry, but also as a book that witnesses with curiosity the cooling off of friendship. Pablo is a young artist from a small city in southern Spain who has replaced his brushes with his bar. The narrator, an arrogant young poet, decides to become his biographer and sets out to create a picaresque portrait of Pablo and the characters that surround him, all of whom are one step away from social marginalization. But several digressions won't allow him to finish his biography, beginning with the most important digression of all: love. What was sure to be a novel about sex, drugs, and rock and roll becomes a demystified narration of a first love with all of its ups and downs. A Bildungsroman that captures the vitality and rhythm of 18th-century literature but with completely modern topics and narrative methods, this book combines various styles such as the picaresque and philosophical contemplation, which explore the ambiguous limits that separate biography from fiction. Esta novela puede leerse como la cr?nica generacional de una juventud condenada a la marginalidad en la industria del ocio, pero tambi?n como un libro que asiste con curiosidad al fen?meno del enfriamiento de la amistad. Pablo es un joven artista de una peque?a ciudad del sur de Espa?a que ha sustituido los pinceles por su bar. El narrador, un joven poeta arrogante, decide convertirse en su bi?grafo y emprende un retrato picaresco de Pablo y de los personajes que lo rodean, todos a un paso de la marginaci?n social. Pero varias digresiones le impiden llevar a cabo su biograf?a, empezando por la digresi?n m?s importante: el amor. Lo que promet?a ser una novela de sexo, drogas y rocanrol se transforma en la narraci?n desmitificada de un primer amor con altibajos. Una novela de formaci?n que recupera la vivacidad y el ritmo de la literatura del siglo XVIII pero llevada a una tem?tica y modos narrativos completamente actuales, este libro mezcla varios registros que van de la picaresca a la divagaci?n filos?fica y que exploran los borrosos l?mites que separan a la biograf?a de la ficci?n.