The dark side

The idea that dreams are the essence and core of a person is the foundation of the short stories and novels of José María Merino, which are dominated by themes of myth, dream, and memory. In the dark bank, Merino delves through the hero's character into the theme of the other or the twin by walking the boundary between dream and wakefulness, and clinging to memory, which is ultimately identity. This is a novel about memory and dream, about remembering the past and recalling it through stories of the present in which the real and the imaginary and childhood memory blend in the darkness and light of the jungle, where dreams form a journey toward origins. The hero of the dark bank immerses himself in the convergence of all these stories within his depths, and his stay in an American country ends with a meeting. In a place of memory, with tales of old childhood, and the imaginary carries him during a river journey through the jungle to the other bank where the awareness of the dream ends in a transformation into a journey toward its roots...