![]() ![]() David accepts Corelli's eerily Faustian offer. When David declines, Corelli says he can cure David’s brain tumor. ![]() There, he obtains a strange and disturbing book called Lux Aeterna written by "D.M.," David's own initials.Īround this time, David meets with a mysterious French publisher named Andreas Corelli who offers him 100,000 francs to write scripture for a new religion. Amid other personal and professional failures, David seeks guidance from Sempere, an old bookseller and surrogate father figure who takes him to a secret labyrinthine library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Meanwhile, Pedro marries his assistant, Cristina, whom David is in love with.Īt the age of 28, David learns that he has an inoperable brain tumor and will likely be dead in a year. He moves into a long-abandoned Gothic tower house and works on his books from dusk until dawn. ![]() Samson, David writes a series of cheap and titillating "penny dreadful" crime novels titled City of the Damned. ![]() By the time David is 18, he is the writer of a successful crime fiction series printed in the paper.Ī few years later, in 1920, Pedro arranges for David to sign a lucrative contract with the publishers Barrido and Escobillas. Pedro Vidal, one of the newspaper's wealthy owners, gives David a job as an assistant. When David is 14, his father is murdered in front of the Barcelona newspaper office where he works. From an early age, David Martín seeks refuge through literature. ![]()
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