The Bodies of Summer

Author: Martín Felipe Castagnet The Bodies of Summer belongs to that family of great works of imaginative fiction. Those who build an invention within another invention, from the thousand occurrences of Jules Verne to the "sound machine" of Roald Dahl or the "Baby HP" of Arreola, passing through the delirious objects of The Rabid Toy. But there is more: the utopian temptation - or, rather, anti-utopian - to conceive societies or universes. Here it is a world where the dead have the option of returning to a body, where the internet is the nostalgia of grandparents addicted to it and where there are nodes in which the dead meet friends they did not know in life. Every invention imposes its rules. And this occurs twice here, since the universe created by Castagnet imposes consequences that, in its own way, are new rules: the necrological ones begin to indicate who reincarnates in each body; sexuality updates its mechanics.