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Los Caracoles (Yaugurú, 2025) is a novel by Hugo Gargiulo, best known as a set designer and co-founder of the Compagnia Finzi Pasca. Following Recuerdos robados (2015), a collection of award-winning short stories in Uruguay, this new book explores more intimate territories.
Synopsis:
Astor is a “Sunday writer” in the midst of a personal crisis. For one summer, he returns to the ocean village that gives the novel its title and works at his older brother Alfredo’s hostel. Between the beach and the sea, he begins to put in order not only the rooms of the small hotel, but also his own life and memories. On his walks, he is accompanied by Fausto, a dog with a neckerchief, as lost as he is.
Thanks to his scenographic eye, he reconstructs an invented, dreamlike, cinematic South. With irony and poetry, the novel explores the fragility and uniqueness of existence, family bonds, fears, losses, and the possibility of new beginnings. A non-linear journey, it unfolds in a spiral, like the caracoles (snails) of the title.
The book will be presented in Montevideo on Wednesday, September 3, and Wednesday, September 10, while in Maldonado the event is scheduled for Saturday, September 13.
Admission is free.
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