Roberto Brest es un militante de la mediocridad acostumbrado a la tristeza, un ser consumido por el hastio, un licenciado en medicina metido a peon de fabrica, un escritor que no escribe... Hasta que una noche, al regresar a casa, recuerda un suceso que ocurrio veintidos anos atras y que el, todavia adolescente, habia conocido por los periodicos: el suicidio de un hombre que, tras ver como su seleccion de futbol perdia ante Inglaterra, se ahorco en la cocina de su casa de El Cairo, dejando escrita la siguiente nota: «Tras la derrota de Egipto, ya nada tiene sentido.» Debido a esta frase, que Roberto Brest juzga de una extrana lucidez y un humorismo casi perfecto, tomara la determinacion de cambiar de vida. Y asi comenzara Egipto, que es el nombre que dara a su diario personal donde consignara todas sus aventuras y transformaciones: un plan secreto, enigmatico, impredecible. A tientas, el protagonista empezara a buscar un nuevo lugar en el mundo lejos de la realidad empantanada y gris en la que ha vivido. Pronto descubrira las dificultades de su tarea y lo peligroso que resulta enfrentarse a uno mismo para apostar por la vida. / Roberto Brest is a militant of mediocrity who is used to sadness, a being consumed by boredom, a graduate of medicine stuck as a factory worker, a writer who does not write Until one night, upon returning home, he remembers an event that took place twenty two years before and that he, still a teenager, had found out through the newspapers. It was the suicide of a man who, after seeing his team lose against England, hung himself in the kitchen of his house in Cairo, leaving the following note behind: After Egypts defeat, nothing makes sense. Due to this phrase, which Robert Brest judges to be strangely lucid and almost perfectly humorous, he makes the decision to change his life. And so begins Egypt, the name he gives his personal diary in which he writes of all his adventures and transformations: a secret, enigmatic, unpredictable plan. Feeling his way along in the dark, the protagonist will begin to look for a new place in the world far away from the bogged down and grey reality he had been living in. He will soon discover the difficulties of his task and how dangerous it can be to confront oneself in order to live life.
