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Examen extraordinario
Read moreTitle Examen extraordinario Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667659 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 312 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A mariachi with serious identity conflicts, quarrels between writers that go back to bellicose youthful encounters in writing workshops, emails sent from somewhat uncertain planes of existence, the countercultural odyssey of a father to ingratiate himself with his daughter, multiple modalities of that variation of masochism known as romance, the anthology Examen ejemplar, prepared by the author himself, condenses the techniques, strategies and narrative motifs of one of the most outstanding literary careers of today. More than a gesture of triumphalism, this volume has a desire for a second chance. The stories gathered here await a second encounter with the reader, the final arbiter of all literature. But this revenge is not granted due to any failure, but as confirmation of the qualities of an extraordinary pen. The vision of the chronicler, the scope of the novelist, the subtle ability to move the playwright: the arsenal of resources of an author as unique as Juan Villoro is presented in this volume to an extraordinary examination in which, without a doubt, the one who will come out ahead is a genre that does not allow distractions: the short story. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La piel insomne
Read moreTitle La piel insomne Author Montiel, Mauricio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667468 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 256 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The selection of stories that make up La piel insomne is, in the author’s words, a kind of director’s version, a settling of scores with certain texts written and published between 1987 and 1993, and which were originally included in the books Donde la piel es tu tibio silencio, Páginas para una siesta húmeda and Insomnios del otro lado. In addition, the final section, “Bonus tracks”, brings together five stories that appeared in periodical publications or anthologies, but which have not been collected in books. Montiel Figueiras dared to venture down the paths of revision and rewriting, to reorder the index of a book that tells us about his first years as a narrator, a time when he already demonstrated a writing fluency and a literary ability that have led him to occupy a prominent place among the authors of his generation. These stories display the prose that characterizes the writer's work: a sinuous reality plagued by labyrinths, threatening or sensual presences that threaten to change the world, plots that lead us to discover the darkness that inhabits every thing and being that inhabits the universe. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los filósofos ante los animales II
Read moreTitle Los filósofos ante los animales II Author Linares Salgado, Jorge Enrique; Flores Farfán, Leticia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667420 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 220 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Various thinkers have insisted that the Renaissance has shaped our image of the world, in which human beings are seen as the owners of nature. On the other hand, the epistemological and technical developments of these centuries allowed the expansion of the human sphere, and the unraveling of natural laws increased man's capacity to influence his environment. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Señales distantes
Read moreTitle Señales distantes Author Vásquez, Antonio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667963 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 163 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In “Prima materia,” a young acolyte suffers from a strange illness – or curse – due to which his body slowly takes on the texture of a rock. In “La jaula,” the gift that a suitor buys for a girl is rejected, which turns it into a symbol of failure. A Mexican tourist is taken by a young Japanese woman to her small coastal town, where they will take an unexpected role in an ancestral rite, in “El sueño de la esposa del pescador.” “Señales lejanos” tells the story of a mother who is looking for her missing daughter. In “Insomnio,” a man is kidnapped after a sleepless night; his memories let us know that his sleepless nights have a tragic origin. In “Déjà vu,” a woman and her writer husband find themselves trapped in a time loop. “Gestación” tells the story of a young couple who work in a pozolería to guarantee the material support of the child they are expecting; Here, the child and the raw material of his work end up coinciding in a terrifying way. “Gnossienne” has as its protagonist a musician made a prophet by a post-apocalyptic humanity that does not know noise. Finally, “Rebis” is an intense mystical journey full of hermetic allusions. Antonio Vásquez surprises us again with his narrative mastery, this time with a book of short stories whose stories are intertwined with each other, like the sounds of an orchestra that amalgamate until they become an extraordinary symphony. The characters in these stories seem to assure us that where the deepest human pains and obsessions exist, its most fervent desires, a door opens for the extraordinary to take place. The fantastic in Antonio Vásquez's stories is not presented as a handful of magical acts but as a way of seeing and feeling the world, as the mythical thread that connects our intimate daily deaths and resurrections with the mystery of creation: the cycle of the origin of life and its inevitable destruction. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Persona
Read moreTitle Persona Author Seguro, Yolanda Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667819 Edition number 2 Publication year 2020 Pages 99 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis It is necessary to stop understanding the person as a thing that has the capacity to say “I”. A person is not a natural thing or a decree, it is not a substance but a relationship. “A person is something that laughs,” writes Yolanda Segura. Who laughs, what laughs? This book is important, because in it Segura has taken the concept of a person (inaccurate, contradictory and insufficient) and has taken it to a universal code, showing us the intelligence of poetry activated by the lucidity of its discernment. She scrutinizes, sniffs and investigates the inside/outside of what we are, that being, individual, subject or similar and its multiple connotations and imaginaries. We must look carefully: What does the author collect? What has she decided to record? Persona is an extraordinary book, and not only in Mexican poetry, it is a novel, documented and deeply thought-out meditation. We know that there is no discipline that can provide conclusive results on the person/non-human person problem and that is why we need to go further: to poetry as an intuitive and instinctive vision, as a cosmic idea, unify yourself. If person is an incomprehensible hybrid that even surpasses the status of what we are used to calling “the human,” what defines us? Where do we live? Where are the signs of what we are? Surely, we know that the investigation can only take place in the work with language. (Carla Faesler) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Una ballena es un país
Read moreTitle Una ballena es un país Author Zapata, Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667864 Edition number 2 Publication year 2020 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In this collection of poems, Isabel Zapata advances along the path of what I will call the ethics of consideration: the ability to take into account the experience of others and act accordingly. While some of us are barely testing this terrain—David Foster Wallace wrote a chronicle to consider lobsters and I wrote a long time ago a consideration of manatees—Isabel Zapata has immersed herself in this ethics with an entire book of animal considerations. At the beginning, regarding shark eggs, she recommends: “Consider their violent geometry,” and in this verse resonates the tiger that William Blake also considered long ago. In A Whale Is a Country, Zapata considers cetaceans, felines, rhinoceroses, pets, and extinct beasts. I see in this book by Zapata the seed of a new heterodox humanism, a humanism that, in the recognition of our animal condition, unites us with the beasts and plants that our voracity is ravaging. I recognize myself in each of these poems, because they give voice to the desire, more human than any other, of not being left alone in the world, isolated, furious and repressed. (Jorge Comensal) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Las agujas dementes
Read moreTitle Las agujas dementes Author Volpi, Jorge Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667970 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What happens when love, intelligence, genius and poetry are not enough? Where do you run to when it seems that what you are looking for is to return? Through scenes of neat simplicity, Jorge Volpi turns the darkness of private life into the light of public life, showing us that severity and sadness hide behind the smallest acts. Volpi dramatizes the intense and stormy relationship between Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Assia and David Wevill and invites the reader to draw back the curtain that covers the strength and weakness of two brilliant women who, because of the same illness, ended their lives in the same way. Las agujas dementes explores in each act the paths of life, poetry and suicide. In this new installment, Volpi once again shows us the versatility of his writing, where each word takes on an incendiary character more than ever. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El hombre mal vestido
Read moreTitle El hombre mal vestido Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667406 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Esteban Arévalo is a man who dresses badly. This would not be of great importance if it were not for the fact that the disheveled appearance of his worn-out old clothes – which he continues to wear out of conviction, not necessity – arouses the deepest distrust among his neighbors in the Tacubaya neighborhood: rumors point to him as the main suspect of having committed eight murders. Blaise Rodríguez, the narrator of this story, is determined to prove Esteban Arévalo’s innocence. Contrary to the roughness that people expect from a guy who takes so little care in his attire, the protagonist is rather kind, polite and quite cultured. Would it be possible for a man with no major existential aspirations and who remains gentle even when he is treated with rejection to become a cruel murderer? What would be his reasons for killing? The Badly Dressed Man poses a critical reflection on murder, intolerance and fear of difference, in a present of extreme violence where physical appearance takes on radical importance as a crucible of status, identity and class aspirations. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La muerte de la lengua inglesa
Read moreTitle La muerte de la lengua inglesa Author Moscona, Myriam Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667802 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Myriam Moscona enunciates the death of the English language through twenty-nine poems written around the death of artists whose work was written in English – such as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Lord Byron, Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and Anne Sexton, among others. The author investigates language with the curiosity and wit that distinguish her, to find in words their powerful plasticity to create sounds and images. Beyond the playful composition that distances the poems from funereal solemnity, there is something disconcerting: why would the English language die? If English is the most widely spoken language in the world, the lingua franca of communications, business and science, what would have to happen – besides the death of its most excellent poets – for the English language to disappear? foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Prosas de guerra y esperanza: Efraín Huerta en “El Popular” (1939-1944)
Read moreTitle Prosas de guerra y esperanza: Efraín Huerta en “El Popular” (1939-1944) Author Ugalde Quintana, Sergio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667437 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 592 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis During the years when the threat of the extreme right was taking on a global scope, the public scene in Mexico was disputed between the progressive faction affiliated with the government of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and a reaction that opposed his policies and did not hide the sympathy that the fascist regimes of Europe inspired in it. In accordance with the demands of the times, the young poet Efraín Huerta did not hesitate to appeal to a “moral, psychological and aesthetic” definition of the artist or the intellectual. It is not surprising, then, the combative tone of many of his contributions to the newspaper that the Cardenistas founded to counteract the attacks that the media conglomerates launched against his government: El Popular. In the not inconsiderable universe of these spaces, until now forgotten by literary historiography and which are presented in this necessary volume, the different facets of a fundamental trajectory for Mexican letters can be read. Although it would seem that political commentary was the main driving force behind Huerta's pen in these columns, they also have room for a diverse spectrum of registers and interests: popular speech, urban spaces, literary reviews, among others. Of all the scenarios outlined in Huerta's more than one thousand one hundred contributions to El Popular, two stand out for their centrality: on the one hand, the political denunciation of world and Mexican fascism; on the other, the response of poetry - and of literature and art in general - to this overwhelming reality. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
¿Hay vida en la tierra?
Read moreTitle ¿Hay vida en la tierra? Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667222 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 445 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In Is There Life on Earth? Juan Villoro offers us a broad sample of his ability to analyze our present and manages to make sense of the untamed daily life when organized into a story. In these pages, the author analyzes the strange mystery of being Mexican, undertakes the arduous task of changing his mattress, develops a theory of mariachi, witnesses a confession by the Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oé, meets two turtles in the Dachau concentration camp, opens a suitcase that contains the pain of Republican exile, faces the enormous challenge of asking for a cappuccino and is mistaken for a priest. With Is There Life on Earth? Almadía reached one hundred published titles. Therefore, it was only logical to celebrate with a volume made up of one hundred stories characterized by addictive prose and a hilarious catalog of paranoias, misunderstandings, annoyances and illusions that make up daily life. Seven years after its appearance in our publishing house, and after the publication of two hundred other titles, we are pleased to see that Is There Life on Earth? remains one of the most sought-after titles in our catalogue, which shows us that there are and will continue to be new readers willing to search for the forms that life takes on Earth. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
¿Te veré en el desayuno?
Read moreTitle ¿Te veré en el desayuno? Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667116 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Tragedy is ridiculous because it is always watching and lurking at the foot of our door, and when it appears and makes us stumble, when it makes us more aware of our mortality, then all we have left is laughter, mockery, and ridicule in front of the mirror. Chance has been the bond that unites the relationship of Ulysses, Adolfo, Olivia, Cristina and the Bishop, the characters in Will I See You at Breakfast? They all find themselves in the center of a city that serves as a hostile womb, a burrow, a geography to inhabit. Their dreams or aspirations become absurd because they are real and have consequences. They themselves are the cause and the withered effect, they occupy the most different pieces of the human board, they suffer and love each other, but their love is a necessity, a desperate invention. Today, so many years later, my perspective has not changed and when I reread the novel I find that its gravity continues to affect me, it bothers me and frees me, it makes me feel part of a family that extends to the end point of my literary universe: burden and victory of tragedy. Guillermo Fadanelli foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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