Author: Jean Véliz D'Angelo
Pages: 500
Format: Softcover 21.5x14.5
ISBN: 978-956-6106-33-3
Genre: Thriller
Publication: October 2022
Through the protagonist of this novel, Julián Córdova, the reader will discover one of the fundamental mysteries of art and existence: what is death, really?
Julián suffers from a rare syndrome that distances him from his teaching job, from family conflicts, and from his full reality. As his illness progresses, it will leave us with no choice but to think about our own and others' deaths—the desired, the inevitable, the imagined, the one we feel in our souls even before our bodies.
The Destitute thus joins a long tradition of novels and short stories that deal with the end of life. This tradition reached its peak when Edgar Allan Poe wrote one of the most extraordinary stories about it, *The Premature Burial *, in 1844. There, in the third paragraph, he condensed the central idea of the story: "The boundaries that divide life from death are, at best, vague and indefinite."
Poe wasn't the first, nor would he be the last, to speak about death. Many preceded him, and others followed in his footsteps; it's not for nothing that it is the inescapable destiny of existence. But despite the fact that many talk about it, few dare to dig, truly dig, into those boundaries that divide life from death. 178 years after Poe put those words to paper, comes The Destitute , by Jean Véliz D'Angelo, a psychological thriller that, without wishing to provide answers, will remind us of his words: the boundary that separates us from death is vague, at best. At worst, even when we are alive, that boundary doesn't exist.
