Memento Méndez and the hope and illusion of a future

The cartoons of Memento Méndez conspire in a Pirandellian way and in the style of Unamuno de Niebla, but without conflict, with the clarity of the elective affinities of those who contemplate themselves in the mirror of their own work. This is the approach of the comic recreation of an exciting scene from Llámame Méndez (2017), the prequel in which Victoria González Torralba brought together writer and character in the Biblioteca de Catalunya at the end of the forties. In said novel, a young Ricardo Méndez recently joined the police stopped by the Central Library as a result of an investigation and sympathized there with another young man, to whom he gave a title for what he was writing. The author would pay that debt many years later, by bringing that disenchanted boy to life on paper.