REVIEW OF ‘SEA SPELLS’

The writer Javier Serapio returns with 'Hechizos de mar’ after nine years of literary silence after the publication of his success ‘SALT SORES‘. This new work of stories, which is the first book of the new publishing label Melqart Ediciones, It is structured in three stories about the Pitiusas Islands that can be read as the three acts of the same piece with the sea as the protagonist..

The author Javier Serapio.

The first of them, 'dried fish', is a story centered on a character who takes refuge in the sailor scenes and routines of his childhood in an attempt to recover his broken identity. ‘The night of the lighthouse’ takes a more dreamlike tone to describe the mystery surrounding a high school teacher's lonely boat trip. 'The reserve’ closes the trilogy with the story of a family in a dystopian setting in the Ibiza of 2029.

This mix of past, present and future is a first sample of the union between apparently irreconcilable borders that 'Spells of the Sea' boasts. The same happens with the genres of each of the stories.. The book begins in a realistic style, It moves towards the fantasy of dreams and ends in a category of science fiction explained in such a plausible way that it ties in with the beginning of the work..

Serapio's profession of clinical psychologist comes to light in the three narratives through the appearance of professional aspects when describing the mentality of the main characters.. Another transversal axis of the work are the continuous references to Ibizan gastronomy, that give a measure of the cultural dimension that the book reaches. By last, the writer resumes in ‘Sea Spells’ social reflection towards the ecological and environmental model that the Pitiusas Islands are following.

his unwavering faith in God and the numerous trips that brought him into contact with diverse cultures and to settle in Santa Eulària

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