Panopticon Hoax It is a beautiful pocket book, which belongs to the publisher The brick removers). This company has been paddling in tar for about fifteen years in this very difficult world of publishers, printers and bookstores. The fruit of such an effort is the great variety of titles and new authors launched into the world of literature, such as Anahí Ferreyra, Margarita Roncarolo, Dafne Mociulsky, Sol Fantín, Eli Neira, Sebastián Lemmi, Carolina Dandois, Lionel Celaya, Úrsula Marina, Guillermo de Posfay, Juan Spinetto, Marianela Saavedra, Luciano Deraco, Diego Seoane, Alejandro Raymond… To them we must add Matías Carnevale, Álvaro Praino, Valeria Medina, Carlos Crosa, Ramón Minieri, Carlos Dariel, Fabián Viqué, Ignacio Camdessus, and so many more who are typing the keyboard with energetic enthusiasm… Which of them will be able to surprise tomorrow with some capital work that is part of the list of our elders?… Time to time, God will tell.
For now, this Panopticon Hoax adds three other promises in its authors. They are Gabriel Bianco, Alejandro Miguez and Cristian Alejandro Nobile. The texts are supported by beautiful illustrations by Sofía Lino.
Already in the prologue, in a frank way, it is said that “returning to what was experienced is a way of constructing each interior, it is a way of solving those existential enigmas that make us ask again and again about who we are and where we come from.” ”. The volume is arranged in five parts: Sunrise, Average, Sunset, To become night y Wakefulness. In each of them, the authors make their encapsulated proposal.
“Ave” is the text that opens the book. Its author, Alejandro Miguez, puts himself in the shoes of a victim of the death flights. Then he follows “For Sale”, venturing into the primary difficulties of sex. “Tirada” takes place in the countryside, where the theme is the surprise of finding the body of a murdered woman. “The Ball,” a very short story, summarizes the fatality of dying easily in the hands of luck. “Tarde”, which is the continuation of “La Pelota”, could be understood as a revenge of life.
Gabriel Bianco’s texts almost focus on childhood. “First love” describes the excitement of a boy upon owning his first bicycle. “Twenty” refers to the accidental death of a sister that leads to the discovery of sudden, unexpected, perhaps better “unexpected” fatality, at an age in which the event is neither thought, nor spoken, nor exists. “I was too young to understand that death not only takes mate with the elderly, but also with young people of twenty.” “The Lesson” tells of a severe beating suffered by the narrator by his primary school classmates. The teacher never knew that she had been the provoking cause. “The Night Before the Dawn” focuses on teenage love. “18” tells the age at which Camila, the family cat, dies; It is a text that, due to its tenderness, hits home with all those who have had a beloved pet, and even more so, as in this case, if it is picked up on the street.
Cristian Alejandro Nobile’s first story, “Rondeau 1738”, deals with relationships and disorder. “Adolescence” goes further and attempts a tribute to the cinema of Spanish Almodóvar. In “Cosas de Chicas” the beautiful music of Glenn Miller plays and, as the title of the story says, the ending is fulfilled by the sister of the protagonist when she suffers her first menstruation, dancing, precisely, the song “In good humor.” “The Garden of Slugs” describes a boy who eats slugs. The story “Chapadmalal” is about technological advancement and a trip by seventh graders to said beach. The narrator is so excited to see the sea that he jumps into the water fully dressed. It is said that the tourist complex had been inaugurated by General Perón in 1954. Personally, this story makes me very sensitive, because they took us there for the summer when I was a pupil in the juvenile institutes. And I also had the same feeling of joy when diving into the waves for the first time. “Evening Perfume” is about the social importance of perfume. “Idem” participates in adolescent relationships. “Jehovah” serves the author to remember the neighborhoods of his childhood. “Zoom” is the longest story in the book and perhaps the most suggestive; It is an invitation to tour the Constitución neighborhood, get to know its vague and tormenting atmosphere and the enigmatic, unbreathable climate that darkly conspires there. In any case, there is a claim that allows us to see lights at the end of the tunnel.
In “The Enigma of Edward Fitzgerald,” Borges says that “all collaboration is mysterious”, suggesting, perhaps, that this collaboration had as its achievement “that one knew about the other and they were a single poet”. This virtuous book, Panopticon deception, without a doubt that is the true proof.
