Not long ago an astonishing and talkative young man named Aleix Salo broke into literature with his popular mix of political satire and comic. And things turned out well because in his black-on-white gala performance, the ideas of this young Catalan author appeared fresh and resounding, hilarious to be able to decipher reality with that necessary pinch of humor.
Ideas and images loaded with humor that is as intelligent as it is capable of transmitting to every reader, expert or clueless, basic notions and suggestive perceptions about our political and economic future. In line with other current Spanish humor authors such as Paul Tussetts o Angel Sanchidrián but with the visual addition of his condition as a cartoonist.
But Aleix Saló's thing is already a serious matter, seriousness within the necessary and timely general humorous review, because today this author looks with several books published behind him in a magical combination between images and text
Top 3 recommended books by Aleix Saló
All nazis
One of the great successes of Aleix, which also comes standard, is the ability to openly criticize and make people laugh in the same way, at the very moment that you read or visualize the concept. There is no analysis or maturation process. The idea comes with that imprint of those who conceive it with natural freshness and stop as easy as it spits.
Any attempt at reply points to the most resounding failure. So let's assume that creative genius and enjoy once again a work as accurate and enlightening as it is burlesque ...
Totalitarianisms always appear threatening, even more so when people quote them with a longing for self-fulfilling prophecy, pointing out any contrary ideology as a clear indication of the hecatomb.
Aleix makes us conceive that idea and for this he goes back and presents us not so distant historical settings. It only suggests it, but the extract is already there, marking the way for all those cerriles that demand positioning or offer exclusion. For those who do not have the term fear and associate that necessary limbo of meditation, analysis and humor with the devil himself ...
Wow, you seem to like to look at the texts that accompany a book before you buy it. You will think you are very original. Do you know who liked to do it?
TO HITLER!
Now that the masks are falling, you should know that in this book there are Nazis, Lazis and Feminazis. And some extreme right-wing gentlemen who for some strange reason are anti-Nazis. And also pro-Nazis.
It is long to explain ... Better buy this book and let yourself be soaked by its propaganda like a disciple of Goebbels. And when you finish reading it ... burn it »
Simiocracy
Nothing to do with "Planet of the Apes." Because these others are worse, the simiocracy is the underground government of simian interests. and what are simian interests? Well, read the book and you will know, that you have to tell everything.
Just point out that there is no consequence without cause. That nothing happens just because in the simiocracy. Because the apes, while they scratch their bellies, their teeth or whatever, they are always scheming something. And their evolutionary stage prevents them from going further, because they are only thinking of eating the banana before others.
Few authors manage to awaken that crystalline humor but in a certain way even tragic about current politics and society. Putting ourselves to laugh at our miseries, it is better to first bring up the miserable intervention of rulers and other enlightened leaders of the world.
The causes of the crisis.
The background to the crisis.
The effects of the crisis.
Irrational corruption.
The social involution.
The dysfunctional government.
Europesadilla: Someone has eaten the middle class
Deep down, macroeconomics is simple, no matter how macro it is. Except that his sophisticated disguise gives rise to a multitude of possibilities, hardly any good, to throw balance sheets and waste money like a trick of a trickster and charlatan conjurer.
That is why when Aleix speaks to us with his self-confidence as an informed and documented young man, the explanations seem from another world. And no, it's the same, only counted on the hilarious, squeaky certainty that something smells rotten in Denmark and the rest of Europe.
The fiction of being European came in handy to integrate us and all that (to the extent that a Swede can look at a Spaniard with a remote sense of belonging to the same tribe). Another thing will be that, basically and after so many years since the economic unification, the substance of being European formally supposes some benefit to the citizen in turn above other risks.
But let's not walk around with rhetoric that Aleix Saló is to explain clearly and correctly. An author who always takes a run putting us in place, in this case with a historical review of Europe made in Saló, to end up assaulting us with doubts, questions and laughter.
Various monsters roam Europe: Will its citizens avoid becoming its menu?
When the middle class stars in a horror movie, Europe trembles.
When Europe directs a horror movie, the middle class trembles.
