The writer and his ghosts

June 19, 2025

I read the last page of New Stories by Asturian writer Luis Garcia“Stories from the door of hell” and phrases from David Foster Wallace: “Every love story is a ghost story.” Although Garcia’s book is far from a book loving theme (love never stops being, but does not always occupy a preference), on the other hand, is the open door to the ghosts we live with (sometimes daily, sometimes immediately). Remove them from their closest context and take them to a better known country.

Read all the stories that I have concluded that perhaps the thread that sews them is scary as true. For this purpose Garcia does not hide its links: very obvious is “pedro paud Juan RulfoA novel in which they are absence (their memory) that create an unusual identity. Aunt Agueda, who gives the title of the Last Story of the Book, works as a kind of pedro steamo trying to return to the past that becomes the same as a return to fiction: ” – well to repair. Coloma or even a character on road maps, and not precisely because it is an exceptionally small city.” Coloma / Comala. A blinking to the government, which refers to the intention of the book from its initial pages. “Stories from …” It also begins to return to the past: the tributary of those who return to what was their place of origin to experience how everything did not.

The volume of stories is also the possibility of various problems and problems despite the obvious family air.

The writer states Eugenia rico In the prologue, “the important thing is that what we call literature, the different way to see the world as if we discovered it for the first time, will become what remains when we close the book if we forget the story.” He is rich: we live from Chilla, Pecios; And when the influx of reading decreases, we are looking for a fetish between Písek.

As if it were Catchonero, the reader goes and meets two men who loved the same woman who disappeared, summoned them from an uncertain place and through two films (“so sweet hell”).

The cinema is very recurring: “Roxy cinema” (Marse, SerratThe city of Luis Garcia itself introduces us in the initiation story: “The first and only time my father took me to the Roxy cinema still did not roll me …”

Burhonero / reader continues his search and is – it is not the first time – that the tide leaves unexpected objects, the possibility of various tones and batches in stories; Press them, exercise different styles. For example, “The Wave”, a story that receives a hyperbolic language, in a line of magical realism, is looking for cohesion between telling an event that goes beyond the reality and way to express it. Be either “Literature on Literature Pictura Est“Evoking and Poe or al Bécquer Legend.

For the offer and not avoiding the basic quotation: the character in the “papyroplexion” seems to be the same Bartleby line Melville. Also the kind of sams in “childhood disease”.

Writing quotes with the spirits of literature. And stories are in places prone to meetings. When the author writes, read. So he taught us Borges. And “Stories from …” is also a assembly model. This is quoted Cortázar. Here he also participates in unusual everyday life; that extraordinary outbreaks on sidewalks and not in very distant galaxies. Just in case Garcia is watching the eye.

For those who do not know about the author, I will say that it is in the most noble sense of the term: a loud letter. And pioneer: confused one of the reference literary website: www.literaturas.com. A co -worker of a magazine such as “Clarin”, “side”, “Turia” … Today he usually publishes in “Cuadernonos del Sur”, a cultural complement to the newspaper “Córdoba”.