Exorcising vain existence: Review of the novel "Pilares de la noche vana" by Jeovanny Benavides, National Prize of Literature "Miguel Riofrío"

Abstract

Human existence is the constant challenge of an indecipherable chess. The supposed unfading destiny of life is the lucid temptation of the daily mystery. We, enigmatic characters in conscience, are architects of our usual dimensionality. We look for the existential riddle of the lived and the future perennially; it is in this logogriff where what we cannot see or touch lives on; Although the memories transcend, they last in the time of coexistence and ruin their bewilderment towards the infinite space. We always look for the root of existence in the seed. This is the essence of the meritorious writing "Pillars of a Vain Night", a distinguished and convergent novel for the family intimacies of the diversity of homes in our Latin American realities. To capturethese contexts with the literary prolixity with which the novel and thoughtful writer Jeovanny Benavidesoutlines his novel, is our intention, beyond the horizon of time and space, in which the vortex of lives conflicted by circumstances specific to humanaction is virtualized ; diverse and incredibly unsuspected from the mirror that we observe it. Deciphering these petroglyphs, due to the harshness of everyday life, is an arduous task, but it is an existential enjoyment for those who write it, as well as for those who read it with relish and perception to solve the enigma of our own lives. This is the paradox of why it is essential to read and transcribe the paradigmatic archetype of always returning to the seed.