Malaletra.com Website Review

Islands bathed by the same sea and with communicating currents, this is how David Miklos defined the narrative projects included in the first volume of this anthology, which Malaletra distributed free of charge in 2015. book completes that first effort and includes 22 unpublished stories by Mexican writers and writers born after 1975. Just a healthy sample of what is currently happening in the Mexican narrative, but representative of a liberated spirit -ie: degenerationalized . I still think that this generation, as it is called, is made up of people who are allergic to the whole, independent beings who learned very early to distance themselves from the patriarchal and marketing nature of the Boom, as well as from the manifest that has never been fully achieved by Crack (and it was actually a local resonance of Boom himself). images, in the dialogues. They stimulate the reader by developing current issues such as violence, abandonment, death, from a very bitter point of view and with a comedy that hits by the rawness of the characters. Perhaps the best way to present this book is to say that what inspires me most of these authors is that I find courage in the way of dealing with the issues, they are irreverent and tender at the same time, they are subtle and heartrending, they pay attention to the details very small that the works contained here respond to creative concerns, not homages, have their own searches and theatricalities. We talk about contemporary Mexican theater, we talk about the present. It is not a tropicalized Shakespeare, each of these projects has a different way of appropriating it and in all there is cannibalism. This anthology shows a living author who is being discussed, not a grave with offerings. And it turns out that Shakespeare was always here, our contemporary, that not being, is. The garden of a supposed forgotten actress is neglected by an accident that includes a run over. The Volkswagen 86 and the corpse