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The evening man, an essay by Antonio Monterrubio
Accompany the author , Félix Población
Castilla Ed., 2025

The consensus on honesty broke down long ago, and not from overuse. Beyond the profusion of hoaxes and alternative facts, the problem lies in their social acceptance. Behind the spectacle and its strident scenery lurks a whirlwind of emptiness that irresistibly attracts elites and the masses, princes and paupers alike. Each and every one of us is invited to become a consummate escapist. We are heading toward the normalization of a new reality where the difference between true and false will have evaporated, and with it the abyss that separates beauty from ugliness, justice from injustice, good from evil.

To oppose the security of what is given, validated, verified, and integrated with the uncertainty of a different, yet-to-be-built, way of life is an inextinguishable task. That is why modernity cannot die. It is reborn every time the existing world is questioned. Through it, hope is given to us. Youth, "life's brazen charm," always ends up returning.

Antonio Monterrubio Prada was born in a village in the Sanabria mountains and lives in Zamora. A graduate of the University of Salamanca, he has dedicated several decades to teaching. He is the author of the trilogy *La verdad del cuentista*, *Almacén de ambigüedades*, and *Laberinto con vistas* (Semuret, 2022), *Al revés te lo digo* (Trea, 2024), *La primavera y el titán* (Marciano Sonoro, 2024), *El serano* (Castilla Ediciones, 2025), *Antígona vive * (forthcoming), and *El tiempo en llamas *. He publishes articles in *El Cuaderno*, *Nueva Tribuna*, *Nueva Revolución*, *Diario del Aire*, and *El Viejo Topo*.

Félix Población was born in Valencia during his father's exile, although his childhood and adolescence were spent in Asturias. A graduate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, he is the co-author of several books of reportage on the cultures of different nationalities (Cultures in Struggle, 1980) . A theater critic, editor-in-chief, and director of various media outlets, including El Correo de Zamora , he has contributed to the Huffington Post, the newspaper Público, Heraldo de Leon , and infoLibre, as well as magazines such as Theater der Zeit, Atlántica XXI, El Viejo Topo, and Quimera . As a writer, he has won national and international awards for some of his novels and short stories. He published La memoria llamaba (The Named Memory ), a selection of his early articles on Historical Memory, a topic on which he is currently preparing new books.

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