"It takes a minimum of imagination to realize that reality is overrated"

The poet, translator and editor Bárbara Belloc (Buenos Aires, 1968) builds the novel “Madness is a family asset” with fragmentary scenes, in which she takes up the notes from her personal notebook to tell the playful dynamics of a marked family life. for music and manages to put into words the disease of his mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's.

The book, published by Random House, recovers in less than a hundred pages Belloc's visits to his mother and, far from the hospital lexicon of hospitalization routines, notices language as a game, even when his mother's words -supposedly - they lose meaning.

Author of nine books of poetry, director together with Teresa Arijón of the essay collection "Nomadismos" and translator, Belloc goes through the shadows (the difficult days) and the lights (occurrences, associations and anecdotes) and weaves a kind of poetics of the madness that, with a certain playful attitude, manages to take away the drama to simply tell.