«"The novel I then wrote [The Stone Raft] separated the entire Iberian Peninsula from the European continent, transforming it into a large floating island, moving without oars, sails, or propellers towards the South of the world, 'a mass of stone and earth, covered with cities, villages, rivers, forests, factories, wild scrubland, cultivated fields, with its people and animals,' on its way to a new utopia: the cultural encounter of the peninsular peoples with the peoples on the other side of the Atlantic, thus challenging, as my strategy dared, the suffocating dominion that the United States of America has been exercising in those parts… A doubly utopian vision would understand this political fiction as a much more generous and human metaphor: that Europe, as a whole, should move south in order to, in redress of its ancient and modern colonial abuses, help to balance the world. That is, Europe finally as ethics." The characters in The Stone Raft – two women, three men, and a dog – travel tirelessly across the peninsula as it sails across the ocean. The world is changing, and they know they must look within themselves to become the new people they will become (not forgetting the dog, who is not like other dogs...). That is enough for them.“
Foundation

Dimensions: 142 x 210 x 21 mm

Pages: 352