Gente que conocí en mis sueños by Luis Mateo Díez
Instituto Cervantes LondresThe four stories in Gente que conocí en los sueños,an unpublished book by Leonese writer Luis Mateo Díez, mix unreality and phantasmagoria and reveal some of the secrets of what happens to and worries us beyond the waking world, where inhabitants similar to ourselves can appear to us. The stories have shades of dreaminess and delirium, and amongst these people there are beings who are disorientated in their spiritual experience, dead people who come and go, professional ghosts, and friends of the devil. These are not the first stories of fantasy and mystery by an author like Luis Mateo Díez, who is known for blurring the line between the real and the unreal, but they are among the ones that offer us this exploration with the greatest intensity and beauty in another world that is just around the corner.