The lie

«If a deception can materialize, it’s because there’s always someone willing to believe it.» This is the first law of lying, and the impostors who wander through this book know it perfectly well. Because only someone completely committed can accept that a stranger sells them the Eiffel Tower. Or that the Moon is infested with bizarre beings. Or that a poor wretch in East Germany passes Hitler’s lost diaries to a collector on the other side of the wall.

Or that Satan hides behind the appetizing appearance of a hamburger. Marta Fernández offers us a sampler of stories in which deception is elevated to a work of art, and to which we can only react as when we sit in a movie theater, convinced of the truth of what we see. We marvel, we are amused, we are moved, we ask ourselves again and again how it is possible to allow ourselves to be fooled by such incredible lies. And, who knows, maybe we will begin to look differently at a world in which lies are more beautiful than the reality of life.