The review in Transfuge calls the architecture of Miquel de Palol’s work “prodigious”, “a dance at the summit of the volcano of a global catastrophe”, in which over a hundred characters are mixed up in a story with multiple twists and against the backdrop of the Third World War.
For Aubel, “the work revives the great European novel of Brock, Mann or Musil”. “It is the agonizing decline of an interwar Europe”, which “exudes the last remains of humanism”. Miquel de Palol speaks of a culture that feels close to death with “a brilliant recapitulation of centuries of philosophy and concepts: God, history, reason …”.
