Este muerto no soy yo

Synopsis of Este muerto no soy yo

«Este muerto no soy yo» is the novel by Ángel Palomino, published by Planeta in hardback (235 pages, in Spanish).

A satirical novel set in a near future dominated by computing. Juan Morón, an ordinary employee, discovers that the company has declared him dead due to a system error. Since then he tries to prove he is still alive and faces an administration that treats people as data. The author uses this absurd premise to talk about identity, paperwork and the excesses of automation.

Published in 1989 in a first edition within Planeta's Autores españoles e hispanoamericanos collection.

For readers of 20th-century Spanish fiction seeking humour and social criticism about bureaucracy and technology.