Cibercaja

A poetics of brick. With extraordinary acuity, Javier Adrada de la Torre uncovers the unsuspected possibilities within the vocabulary of real estate, turning the quest for a roof over one’s head into a genuine laboratory for verbal experimentation. In *Cibercaja*, a young university professor—aspiring to purchase a modest, forty-eight-square-meter apartment in Alcobendas—embarks on a twenty-first-century odyssey, contending with real estate agents, property appraisals, intermediaries, guarantors, and risk-assessment departments that seem to hold the power to dictate his fate. Amidst mortgage floor clauses, earnest-money contracts, and special community assessments, poetry discovers new metaphors, double meanings, and whimsical associations—transforming an experience as prosaic as it is exasperating into an astonishingly entertaining literary adventure. The result is a narrative poetry collection of remarkable freshness, populated by memorable characters and situations that are as absurd as they are all too familiar; it turns the precariousness and economic burdens of our time into an inexhaustible source of humor and imagination. It is a celebration of the transformative power of language—one that engages with literary tradition while simultaneously poking fun at its conventions, proving that, in the hands of a talented poet, even the Euribor can be transmuted into lyrical material.