El orden de las rosas. La música, el contar historias y el sentido de la existencia en “Silvio en El Rosedal” de Julio Ramón Ribeyro

The literary work by Julio Ramón Ribeyro forms a unit whose center is the idea of a human being who does not receive what he/she wants. The characters in his stories embody not only material deprivation, but also the impossibility of achieving love, knowledge and integration into society. However, his fruitless searches give dignity to his main characters in the certainty that, in fact, human fulfillment resides in the search of themselves. “Silvio en El Rosedal” is a meaningful story because it adds to the several failures of its protagonist the comfort of music which reconciles him with the passing of days, and also because its author is consoled by the fact of telling stories in the impossibility of acquiring a full understanding of life and the world.