The Soul of the Sea
A Lyrical Tale of Memory, Control, and the Atlantic’s Secret Wisdom
The Soul of the Sea is not just a novel—it’s the living echo of one of Europe’s last untouched coastal sanctuaries: Galicia’s Cíes Islands, the Atlantic winds, and the deep silence of those who carry memory in their blood. Written originally in Galician in 2003 and first self-published in 2018, this novel represents the beginning of Miguel A. Fernández’s literary journey—a semi-autobiographical book that was born in the shadow of personal loss, ecological tragedy, and the hunger to understand what it means to live truthfully in a world of technological systems.
Set in the early 2000s, The Soul of the Sea follows David, a young technician tasked with modernizing a failing bottling plant. But beneath this surface mission unfolds a deeper struggle: the tension between mechanized control and intuitive presence, between progress and responsibility, between memory and forgetting. Through the haunting recollection of Ariadna—a swimmer, a free spirit, a mirror of nature—David is forced to reckon with what he has sacrificed for power, and what he must reclaim if he wishes to truly live.
This novel stands at the crossroads of the author’s broader work
It prefigures the philosophical explorations of Operative Traditions, where the link between technique and spirit is made visible
It shares emotional ground with The Solar Warrior, reflecting the pain and beauty of becoming, and it offers a narrative key to the Fondo Natural project—a call to preserve not just nature, but the soul embedded within it.
The Soul of the Sea is the “writer’s cut” of a life: raw, poetic, honest. A tribute to the Atlantic’s voice—and to the one who, for a moment, knew how to listen.
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