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I Remember
When we forget how things used to be and how we wanted them to be.I believe that reclaiming nostalgia is important.
I don't know if any past was truly better than the present. But I know the dangers and sins of nostalgia, and I also know this world isn't the world we wanted to live in.
I also believe that for the rest of our lives we fight to recover lost freedom, we dream, or we accept what fate dealt us and resign ourselves to it.
As Eliot said in the cruelest month, these fragments I have shored against my ruins, now that I'm growing old, but despite everything, as Nabokov noted, in the past one is always at home. That's why I invite you into mine.
Praise
Getting lost in the pages of "I Remember" is like pressing your nose against a candy store window and letting yourself be carried away.
A book I'd highly recommend to anyone with sensitivity, culture, and cynicism—each quality in just the right measure.
Jean Larser's "I Remember" is a collection of 150 brief memories about childhood, the seventies, freedom, nature, family, Spain's democratic transition in the Basque Country, writing, writers, publishing, and other subjects that, with humor, love, nostalgia, and certain tenderness, form a generational and distinctive view of the second half of the 20th century.
I don't know if any past was truly better than the present. But I know the dangers and sins of nostalgia, and I also know this world isn't the world we wanted to live in.
I also believe that for the rest of our lives we fight to recover lost freedom, we dream, or we accept what fate dealt us and resign ourselves to it.
As Eliot said in the cruelest month, these fragments I have shored against my ruins, now that I'm growing old, but despite everything, as Nabokov noted, in the past one is always at home. That's why I invite you into mine.
Praise
Getting lost in the pages of "I Remember" is like pressing your nose against a candy store window and letting yourself be carried away.
A book I'd highly recommend to anyone with sensitivity, culture, and cynicism—each quality in just the right measure.
Jean Larser's "I Remember" is a collection of 150 brief memories about childhood, the seventies, freedom, nature, family, Spain's democratic transition in the Basque Country, writing, writers, publishing, and other subjects that, with humor, love, nostalgia, and certain tenderness, form a generational and distinctive view of the second half of the 20th century.
102 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 4, 2026
About the author
Jean Larser
19 books69 followersHe trabajado desde hace quince años escribiendo para otros, por encargo y sin firma, libros de todo tipo e historias, y también corrigiendo y editando profesionalmente.
Antes de estos trabajos me dediqué a la publicidad y los equipos de ventas en diferentes sectores del mercado, incluido el editorial. He impartido talleres y seminarios de storytelling, escritura creativa y literaria para empresas, aplicando técnicas y experiencias de muchas otras ramas del saber.
Puedes encontrar esas publicaciones en Amazon, en la colección "Cómo crear una novela".
Antes de estos trabajos me dediqué a la publicidad y los equipos de ventas en diferentes sectores del mercado, incluido el editorial. He impartido talleres y seminarios de storytelling, escritura creativa y literaria para empresas, aplicando técnicas y experiencias de muchas otras ramas del saber.
Puedes encontrar esas publicaciones en Amazon, en la colección "Cómo crear una novela".
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