Diario de la alarma / Diary of the Alarm
Non-fiction , 2020
Destino
Pages: 304
Lorenzo Silva presents his observation diary of the first fifty days of lockdown in our country due to COVID-19.
"If there's one thing I believe I've learned from all this, it's that human nature is not going to change significantly, just as it didn't according to the testimony of the ancients after other similar episodes. However, one would have to be very blind not to see that this crisis has exposed many of the seams of our world. Humanity will continue to be more or less what it was, but in a different world. Better or worse, partly depends on us."
Since the state of alarm was declared due to the global health crisis of COVID-19, Lorenzo Silva has been writing day by day, up to fifty, a diary reflecting the situation of our country and its people during confinement. With his lucid, incisive, and literary gaze, this is a unique testimony, an observation diary, of the early days of a pandemic that has already changed us forever as a society and as individuals.
In a reflective and profound text, which does not avoid light remarks, irony, or evasion, Lorenzo Silva draws on his readings and the experiences of an ordinary citizen subjected to confinement, but also on the tales of harshness and sacrifice that reach him from those on the front line of the fight against the disease, to remind us of who we are and to outline an inventory of everything the virus has revealed to us and we should never forget.