Caza de conejos

Collection of thematically related short stories

Editorial La Plaza, Uruguay, 1986. Illustrated book.100 pages. Illustrations by Pilar González.

A feverish rabbit hunt full of the most unlikely traps and bait. Bears disguised as rabbits or babies in wicker baskets that work well as rabbit lures. A well-organized expedition led by the idiot, who imagines erotic rabbits to masturbate as he drools. Laura, who hunts naked and traps rabbits between her legs. Evaristo, the plumber, who is disappointed when he catches empty rabbits with no clockwork inside.

Rabbits disguised as forest rangers, who love Schubert, and the den Águeda provides for them. “She is almost always lying on the carpet with her legs slightly open. One can sit at a prudent distance and if one is patient and makes no noise, one will in time observe a white, nervous little head pop out to take a look:”

A work that “could be the rabbits’ trap made of words designed to finally catch people.”

Published by: Editorial La Plaza, Uruguay

Niñas y detectives

Short Stories. Bartleby Editores. 2009. 128 pages.

“Tension is never fully contained in her narrative. Violence explodes and trouble is everywhere. Like the scorpions in one of her stories, men and women are always on the attack and to sense the danger one must be alert. What for others may be the tranquil page, here there is real blood, and it’s never gratuitous. My commentary falls short if I say that with Niñas y detectives, Giovanna Rivero bursts with force into the contemporary Latin American literary pantheon published in Spain.

This book is, simultaneously, a storm of imagery, fascinating plots, and a celebration of language. Be advised.” Edmundo Paz Soldán.

“Giovanna Rivero’s stories pound the reader’s mind. Whether it be the subject or the form of the narrative, Giovanna doesn’t want anybody to be indifferent to her literary wagers (…).

(…)”Giovanna Rivero’s boldness with subject matter and attitudes that could be considered taboo is another direct blow to the reader’s jaw. In stories such as Honorarios, not only does one find commotion but a knockout.” Esteban Gutierrez Gómez, Revista de Letras.

(…)”Niñas y detectives goes beyond its own spatial, temporal, and any other circumstances. Niñas y detectives is literature”

(…)”Her pen moves with a firmness that almost gets stuck in your side and you can smell your own blood” (…) Celia Gutiérrez Vázquez

Published by: Castellano en el mundo: Bartleby Editores

Las infantas

Las Infantas. Lina Meruane. Integrated stories. Planeta 1998. Eterna Cadencia 2010. 176 pages.

In a tone that recalls Perrault’s classic tales for children, Lina Meruane narrates the adventures and misadventures of two princesses who leave the palace as their father is about to use them to back a wager in a game of cards. These ten tale-like episodes intertwine with eleven longer short stories, contemporary in style, to reveal the cruelty and ambivalence of a world, old and new, where childhood is still to be understood.

Fantasies, want, wishes, games shot through from start to finish with an erotic tension that is resolved in a way violating all convention. A moving, as well as disturbing book.

“Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable and from pain”. Roberto Bolaño

“…Lina Meruane stands in the front ranks of our narrative, giving the reader a wink with her unique way of tossing out little verbal darts that make her worthy of the highest praise”. Milton Aguilar

“…Lina Meruane has a calling to the narrative and possesses a powerful language”. Camilo Marks

Published by: Spanish worldwide Eterna Cadencia

Cumbia y desaparecer

Cuentos. Editorial Moho, 2010
108 páginas

Una voz perturbadora e inteligente hilvana este libro de relatos y poemas cuyos escenarios alternan entre Nueva York, donde vivió el escritor, y la Ciudad de México, de donde proviene.

Mosaico de registros literarios, historias sobre decadencia y vivir absurdo; agresivas diatribas acerca de las miserias políticas y sociales. Una muestra más de un pensamiento disruptivo que, sin embargo, se sostiene sobre una habilidad literaria excepcional y una mirada chocante y pervertida. La desolación y la mirada distante unidas a una pasión por narrar son características de Cumbia y desaparecer.

“Cumbia y desaparecer ha esperado bastante tiempo para entrar a escena y no forma parte de la enorme y efímera masa de publicaciones que inundan los mercados. Va permanecer contra todo. Ya lo verán” Guillermo Fadanelli.

“(…) sátira densa y ácida, moralejas, decadencia social y demencia…”. Aline Gómez

“(…)a la manera de algunos short-cuentistas estadounidenses, como Carver, Kyzza Terrazas se dedica en algunos relatos a hacer descripciones de escenarios no por probables menos extraños, que nos dejan un amargo sabor de boca existencial”. Rubén Bonet, revista Replicante

Arder en el invierno

Short stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2010, 101 pages

“Burning in the winter is short, but intense. It has a three part structure in which there is a text for each letter of the alphabet. Through an oniric climate, loaded with melancholy, a sad love story is and isn’t told. It is also a story of nostalgia, poetry and passion and contains a delicate enthusiasm for failure that defines the good literature. Marcelo Luján knows, like every real writer, that no human story has a happy ending”. Ana María Shua.

Published by:  Spanish worldwide Ediciones Baile del Sol

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