The protagonist of "Barullo", the first novel by Valeria Sol Groisman, suffers from anxiety disorders and panic attacks, but her story leads the reader to ask questions about their own mental health and exhibits a gallery of characters who have, to a greater or to a lesser extent, all kinds of deficiencies. "My hands are shaking. I feel like I'm in a final exam," says Maca, the woman who is the focus of the novel published by Hojas del Sur. Then he says: "It happened to me but it could happen to you." But her voice is not the only one that narrates her anguish and her isolation since it is a choral story in which her confessions and her dialogue with herself are added to the points of view of her neighbor, her grandmother and her psychologist Esteban. All of them, in addition to putting the protagonist's suffering into words, reveal their own fears and insecurities. "This is a book about anxiety as a symptom of the times; paradoxically, when technology promises to protect us from nature, we have once again been left in the den of the wolf. Helpless from words and their company," defines Constanza Michelson and adds: "It is also a book about writing, about loneliness and about the power of friendship, whose gift is to modify what it touches. And, it is, of course, a book that reminds us that living is a job and that it is not there is the promised freedom, but the obligation to find a way out. Curiously, Groisman's writing is in tune with the theme of his novel, which is why it can be meticulous and obsessive or acquire a dizzying rhythm, that of Maca's anguish and obsession that are translated into paragraphs that are a growing accumulation of sensations. and symptoms: "Dizziness, dizziness, very fast pulse, what the hell is happening to me, lack of air...". This formal experimentation is complemented by literary references: the protagonist's readings in her isolation and a playlist of the songs she listens to and can be found on Spotify. The author, who is a journalist, university professor and cultural manager, spoke with Télam about the current topic she focuses on, based on confessions from artists such as Alejandro Sanz and La Joaqui who have expressed their struggles against depression and anxiety in recent months.