The Natural State of Things

There are books that can only be written in a state of rapt consciousness. A type of trance that suspends the dispensable accident of our existence, compelling us to dive into the essential qualities that most radically define us. That is how I imagine Alejandro Morellón while writing, immersed in the feverish trance of a novel whose creation would ultimately become an exhausting, almost physical experience.

Fernando ParraDiari de Tarragona

Dreams, guilt, the night, affections, being and the desire to be, memory refuge, silences, evil, clairvoyance, and guilt once more; Morellón traverses all of these emotions, doing so with a poetic style that allows us to live, suffer, accompany, understand and feel the underlying reality of the lives recountedtous.

Aranzazu MiróLa Opinión de Málaga

It was clear to me that the language had to function as a generator of unease in its own right, not merely in relation to the story being told. The protagonist lives in a cloistered space from which he can neither find nor learn how to escape, and to transport the reader there, neither simple narration nor description suffices. The language itself had to contribute to the sense of claustrophobia.

Pablo BujalanceMálaga Hoy

Morellón plays with both extraordinary skill, going so far as to incorporate them into the narrative channels through which the story flows.

Salvador Gutiérrez SolísDiario de Sevilla

A story relayed like a torrent gushing, intimate and wild, carrying a depth of emotional impact only hinted at in the words themselves. It is a story of family, fear, guilt and desire, memory and sex, identity and loss.

Antonio Javier LópezDiario Sur

Have you ever read a story told in just five sentences? The central narrative is sung in precisely that way, in five hits of emotion. Perhaps because the feeling, the emotions awakened are so intense that once the writer begins to express them, he cannot stop.

El Ojo CríticoRNE

Let yourself be guided by the prose, elegant and dark, and ride unbridled towards its stunning conclusion. You might not sleep once you close the book, but what does it matter?

José TorresEstado Crítico

A highly harrowing, existential, and evocative novella.

David Pérez VegaRevistaparaleer

Morellón’s prose moves between the fantastic, the symbolic, the existentialist absurd, and the ominous.

José María Merino