Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí

The enchanting first sentence of this novel already says a lot, perhaps too much: "Nobody ever thinks that he can go to meet a dead woman in his arms and that he will no longer see her face whose name he remembers." This is what happens to the narrator, Victor Francés, television screenwriter and "black" or "ghost writer", in charge of writing the speeches of important and ignorant people. Recently divorced, he is invited to dinner at his house by Marta Téllez, a married woman whose husband is traveling and the mother of a two-year-old child. After the gallant dinner, the man and the woman go to the bedroom where, "still half dressed and half undressed", she begins to feel bad until she is dying and dies in a shocking scene. This non-consummated infidelity thus becomes a kind of «enchantment», with very real and immediate problems: what to do with the corpse, to notify or not to notify, what to do about the husband, what to do with the sleeping child, what difference is there between life and death.