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Until now we knew the publisher Kultrum books for its policy of launching music-themed books not yet published in our country or long out of print. Something that will change with the release of «Interviews from beyond the grave. The resurrection of the flesh: living authors converse with their favorite corpses », the first of the works of a new collection that the publisher has called «Cult Room»:
Cult Room, chronicle of a split long considered and (here) announced.
There is perhaps no more perverse and exhilarating pleasure in life than to bask, with due solemnity, in breaking an oath. Especially if, as it is often said without excessive blush, “it is for a good cause” —of course, in the event that such a vain presumption of goodness can be presumed to what the one who affirms this (and sells) -. At the end of the day, those high-sounding pronouncements that even the humblest entrepreneurial apprentice spends, when he dares (and believes) to see himself as a unit of destiny in the micro-publishing world, one wants to think that they are not uttered except to break them with all the pomp — at the mercy of the all-powerful Self-regulator (the impious market).
Claudio López used to say – he sentenced, perhaps, do more justice to his way of expressing it – that each label had to draw a recognizable editorial line, easily identifiable for the bookseller and, of course, for the (unsuspecting) reader. A merciless scourge, then, of the slightest hint of eclecticism, it advised against — and censored in privacy — that the publisher allowed himself to sow confusion among his interlocutors by lurching around aimlessly, like a peddler armed with all sorts of overseas jewels and files. And one wants to think that this is how it was –without modesty– conceived Libros del Kultrum, a foundational corset by means of, and without any concession from the beginning; to keep us from literary adventures (extra-musical) and to prevent other siren songs from distracting us from our editorial chores devoted to music.
Be that as it may, it became imperatively necessary to make use of the trile traps that one spends with oneself on the lonely and to light a new collection — like a concentration camp — from where, without prejudice to the above, to disseminate other adventures and misadventures that nothing , or very little, had to do with the thunderous papiromusical programming. Contrary to the indications of Alexander Ross in The Rest Is Noise [El ruido eterno], the proposal hatched for this new collection invites us to focus on the horrid rest – there is nothing. But, with that incurable desire to confuse whoever is necessary, we endow the new collection with a name that, pronounced correctly (in Queen’s English), comes to sound like the publisher’s own: Cult Room. And, to top it all, it literally means a place of worship.
Protecting ourselves, then, in the freedom of worship, and in our idolatrous and voracious polytheism, we will fill this «drawer disaster»To make room for all those readings that we oppose, in strict observance of our – already happily broken – oath, to be published in Kultrum. In the vain hope that we are not perceived solely as a sort of editorial branch of the tuna – directed by rogues singing at dawn, with a rogue wind, and a new score, the “Tune Up” popularized by the most reverend Miles Gloriosus (no Plautus, but Davis) – we announce, without further soporific preamble, the launch of Cult Room; A collection that aspires to steal all the limelight from that publisher of “music books” with whom I am condemned to share a desk and budget.
And the fault of all this is a shortcut of illustrious authors with unpublished texts in the Iberian arena and beyond the seas. Refer to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mark Vonnegut, Leonardo Sciascia, Dan Crowe, Marco Rossari… and to many other unrepentant graphomaniacs who await the exhumation of their immense manuscripts.
Julian Viñuales
Editor
On «Interviews from beyond the grave. The resurrection of the flesh: living authors converse with their favorite corpses »:
Afterlife interviews gives real-life writers the rare privilege of conversing with historical figures with whom they have always wanted to have a good chat. If in life (of the interviewees) it was difficult to get an audience – especially with those who lived in other times – it is not much easier to invoke them and have them give you their attention from beyond for such nonsense now. Hence, after consuming such feats, we have proposed to record here the transcription of such supernatural indiscretions with all sorts of posthumous brawls, multitudinous soliloquies, fires (and pleas) fatuous, confidences with pen (and blade), blushing confessions, autos de faith (and fake), parajournalistic necrophonies, merciless interrogations, reprehensible psychophonies, self-laudatory colloquia, penances a cappella, extracorporeal impostures, delusional talks, endearing necrophilia, inopportune fictions, unexpected demands, truthful frauds in unclean lives, and sordid excruciating registered for this purpose by such an illustrious list of interviewers:
Andreu Jaume interview to Jaime Gil de Biedma
Cynthia Ozick interview to Henry James
Geoff Dyer interview to Friedrich Nietzsche
Joyce Carol Oates creates a Ms Fife, who interviews a Robert Frost
Carlos Velazquez interview a Rodolfo Fogwill
Rebecca Miller interview to Marquess of Sade
ZZ pack interview to Knight of Saint George
David Mitchell interview to Samuel Johnson already James Boswell
Toni Garcia interview to Paul Newman
Jordi Soler interview to Antonin Artaud
Malcolm Otero & Santi Giménez abducen a Harpo and they manage to make him interview Groucho already Boy marx
Ian Rankin interview to Arthur Conan Doyle
Esther García Llovet interview to Kirk Douglas
Michel Faber interview to Marcel Duchamp
Pilar Ruiz interview to Jane Austen
Douglas Coupland interview to Andy Warhol
A. M. Homes creates a Tom, who interviews Richard Nixon
Ivan de la Nuez from voice to Leandro Feal
Edu Galán interview to George Carlin
John Burnside interview to Rachel Carson
Carme riera interview to George Sand
Fidel Moreno interview to Carlos Castaneda
Rick Moody interview to Jimi Hendrix
Rosa Vergés interview to Alice Guy Blaché
Diego A. Manrique interview to John Lennon
Eduardo Rabasa interview an avatar of Mark Fisher
Wendy Guerra interview to Anaïs Nin
Datasheet:
Edited by Dan Crowe
Translation of Ezequiel Martínes Llorente
Local attachments and grafts by Belén Feduchi and Julián Viñuales
312 pages / 13.5 × 23 cm /
21,00€ PVP
ISBN: 978-84-18404-02-3
Posted: May 31
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