La Palidez Cotidiana marks the emergence of a writer who remained out of view for a long time, “struggling to keep his literary vocation alive” against the expected adversities, publishing only the bare minimum. It is, therefore, a liberating and at times even uninhibited book, the fruit of a painstaking search that the author has carried out with patience. It brings together a diversity of texts, ranging from journalistic accounts and notes for book presentations to short fictions and notebooks of fragmentary jottings on music and literature.