Ya sentarás cabeza

"The Madrid of the press offers these curiosities: one starts the day at the Ritz, at noon is at the Intercontinental, ends the afternoon at the Palace and -of course- it is still just as poor". Making one's way in life when one is a young political correspondent in Madrid -among bars and newsrooms, books and girlfriends- can be a pretext for picaresque or stoicism, but also the best education for the journalist who wants to be a writer. Lucid in observation, without a drop of cynicism and with a misanthropy tempered by his vocation for happiness, this diary is a journey, as literary as it is pleasant, to that moment between youth and adulthood when life begins to get serious. In the best line of Spanish and international newspaper writers, Ignacio Peyró's unmistakable prose and wise voice -as capable of piety as he is satire- confirm him as the diarist of his generation.