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Professor Tomás Trigo presents the novel "Three Months".

Through the story of a young man who has little time left to live, the author reflects on the meaning of existence.

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Professor Trigo during the signature of copies of his novel "Tres meses", after the presentation. PHOTO: Mariaje Ruiz
18/06/18 13:46 Maria M. Orbegozo

Tomás Trigo, professor of the School of Theology at the University of Navarra, presented the novel "Tres meses" (Three Months). The event, held at the university bookshop Troa of Pamplona, also featured the intervention of Joseluís González, professor of Literature, writer and literary critic, who said that "this novel reveals a great knowledge of the human race and a great sensitivity".

Published by Sekotia, the work emerged as a short story of five pages: "I wrote it 24 years ago to have a text with which to discuss the meaning of life, existence and death with my students of the subject Ethics course. In the end, I never used it, but years later, when I rescued it, it gradually became a novel".

"Tres meses" tells the story of Miguel, a young law student, atheist, intelligent and successful, who is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After several sessions of chemotherapy with no positive results, the doctors pronounce his diagnosis: three months to live. At odds with his parents for years, he decides to wait for death in his grandparents' house, a pazo near Cambados, in the Galician estuary of Arosa. "Miguel conceives death as a door to nothingness. Although he does not find logic in his existence or his suffering, he does not stop thinking about the meaning of life, and this is important for those of us who have faith, as well as for those who do not," explained the author. In this sense, he assured that "it is difficult to get into the head of a non-believer, but if you know people without faith, as is my case, you can try".

Throughout the story, the main character meets people who manage to heal his most intimate wounds and help him find the meaning of his existence. "Miguel is a man full of hatred towards his parents, because he needed their affection and never had it, but he ends up discovering that this lack of love can only be solved when one knows he is loved by God. That is the crux of his conversion," said Professor Trigo.

This novel invites the reader to face his own reality with courage and honesty; a story in which the joy of hope and the strength of sincere friendship demonstrate their saving power.

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