The writer Jorge Valenzuela Garcés (Lima, 1962) book by book he searches for a place in the Peruvian narrative. In this attempt, as is natural in creation, some books are more successful than others. Occupational hazards, they say. Precisely, in order to offer the best of his narrative work, he has published Marion’s secret and other stories. Personal anthology (Ed. Campo Letrado), a selection that brings together fourteen texts that account for their various records.
Invited by the Ayacucho International Book Fair (FILAY), the also essayist and professor from San Marcos, the Saturday, December 19 will present the anthology through FILAY’s Facebook Live. Time: 4 pm Free access. The comments will be in charge of Irma del Águila and Carlos Arambulo.
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“The selected stories distil, for the most part,” he says Jorge Valenzuela in the prologue of the book, a dark and decadent atmosphere, dominant characteristics of the urban narrative of the eighties. Isolation, loneliness, disaffection and death are the central themes of the stories, and their presence is justified because, at that time, we were interested as a generation (at least a group of us within it ) to account, from our personal experience, of the forms of deterioration that affected the individual within a generalized climate of violence and destruction ”.
The set of stories in this anthology, according to him, is the result of a selection “absolutely partial” which, of course, as well underlines, “It could not be otherwise”. The anthology is published, the other way, no doubt, it belongs to the reader. The book is served.
For now, we collect the words of the writer Guillermo Niño de Guzmán, for whom the short story of Valenzuela Garcés “They will allow us to recognize him as one of the most interesting storytellers of the generation of the eighties and, above all, as one of the best interpreters of the moral and spiritual debacle of his time.”
Jorge Valenzuela is part of the so-called generation of Peruvian storytellers of the eighties. He is the author of story books Hours counted (1988), The solitude of the magicians (1994), The inner shadow (2006), Secret games (2011) e Minimal hells (2014).
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