El blues del fin del mundo

Set in our world, alternate realities, or distant futures, the stories collected in this volume encompass a wide range of human experiences. With wit and creativity, Keret blends the absurd and the profound, juxtaposing the most insignificant details of life with profound existential questions. Thus, his characters try to preserve their humanity in a constantly advancing technological world, degraded by miscommunication and a lack of solidarity: a reality show contestant in a parallel dimension; a man who discovers that an asteroid named after his wife is about to impact Earth; an elderly widow who tries to convince a popular artificial intelligence program to commit suicide…