The great Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes was from a working-class family that existed in such poverty that his mother had to send him to an orphanage as a child because she couldn’t feed him. When he grew up, he became one of the most well-read and brilliant Europeans of his time. Nobody in his family could begin to understand what it is that he did and what constituted the daily fabric of his life.
Sometimes something glitches and the most unexpected families produce a genius who is forever separated from his environment of origin by his out of place brilliance.
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