A Spanish writer's book on the death of a word
A review in En attendant Nadeau describes how Sergio del Molino needed an entire book to express both the loss of his son, who died at one year old, and the absence of a word equal to that grief.
The French literary review site En attendant Nadeau has published a piece on a book by the Spanish writer Sergio del Molino, centered on the death of his son at the age of one. According to the review, del Molino found that no single word existed to hold the grief that followed, and that it took an entire book to approach what that absence meant.
The review, titled "Dans l'orbe du fils perdu," frames the book as an attempt to write around a loss for which language itself proved insufficient — the author needing the full span of a work to circle what he could not name directly.
No further details on the book's title, publisher, or whether it has appeared in French translation are given in the source material.
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