“Pampa y la via”: when literature becomes therapy

In his new novel, author and composer Gustavo “Gato” Nuñez investigates the relationship between a psychoanalyst and his patient, two writers who discover themselves on the border between fiction and truth. A story that reveals old wounds

In Pampa and the roadGustavo “Gato” Núñez dares to cross two planes that rarely meet without colliding, such as therapy and literature. It does so from a premise that is as risky as it is attractive: a psychoanalyst who, after years of searching for his story, finds it in the life of his patient.

Tato (the analyst) and Demián (the patient) become, in their own way, mirrors that return uncomfortable truths, not only about themselves, but about an entire country.

The text proposes a double reading. On the one hand, that of the bond between two men crossed by words and, on the other, that of an Argentina that still carries the ghosts of four decades marked by impunity.

Núñez is encouraged to look directly at these wounds and, without falling into pamphleteering, exposes the gray areas where power and silence mix.

As the narrative progresses, the story adopts the pulse of the crime novel. It is not just a change of genre, but a literary gesture, as if the author himself understood that the truth, in this country, almost always has to be sought in the shadows.

In that darkness, the love story that runs through the novel appears as a fierce counterpoint, marked by the collateral damage of a past that never ends.

Gustavo “Gato” Núñez, author and producer of the independent theater circuit of the City of Buenos Aires, is also a composer, member of SADAIC and the Argentine Society of Writers, journalist and creative editor. All that trajectory filters into his work.. Pampa and the road It is written with the pulse of the stage, the precision of the script and the intensity of the internal monologue.