Una sonata lluviosa

Jacobo Arriaga is a teacher who has suffered a serious incident with students at the high school where he works. After being discharged from the hospital, he spends his convalescence at his home in Villa Palatina, near a forest on the outskirts of the city. During this time, Jacobo reflects on the loneliness of the individual in a society devoid of values, where only coherence and culture can rescue human beings from triviality and selfishness. In his struggle to escape his illness, the teacher returns to his literary vocation, writing a novel that will, in reality, be a projection of himself and his wife, Flora Luján. The protagonists of his story are the Danish cultural advisor Harald Klausen and the French painter Anouk Lemoine, residents of the dazzling southern Mediterranean coast of Valencia. In their creative adventure, the two characters become entangled in an art world extortion ring connected to the Third Reich in an intriguing episode that unfolds in the Alps and Central Europe. The therapeutic value of writing will undoubtedly be the breath of fresh air Jacobo Arriaga needs and his undeniable lifeline. A Rainy Sonata is a metafiction, that is, literature within literature, with a carefully crafted narrative, lyrical at times, but biting when the occasion demands it, and a distinctive register of voices in its settings and themes. This work will certainly awaken in the reader an enigmatic doubt about whether the reality we know is perhaps nothing more than the reverberation of another, more authentic one to which we have no access.