¡Adelante, Cronófobos!: Novela contra el Tiempo (1997

This is a fragmented, hybrid, and confessional novel that revolves around an obsession with time, loss, and the impossibility of preserving lived experience. With a voice that is both hyper-aware and vulnerable, the narrator maps out chronophobia, the fear that everything will pass, be erased, and forgotten, and attempts to resist it through the very act of writing. Amidst the death of a cat, family heirlooms, and the echoes of a lost love, the protagonist engages in a dialogue with his sister, Amanda (a scientist, sculptor, and private mythological figure), with his deceased uncle (an aspiring writer), and with the authors who accompany him (Leopardi, Salinger, Joyce, Nabokov), constructing a "personal encyclopedia of loss," where the tragic, the laughable, and the radically intimate coexist.