The 3 best books by the amazing Dimas Prychyslyy

With her look to Truman Capote, only more precocious than the American genius, this poet of Ukrainian origin overflows with an irrepressible narrative energy that in his case does not go out of control but ends up passing strangely wise and balanced. Everything towards that impossible that he is capable of containing himself like Pandora's box to narrate with the greatest of virtuosity.

Prychyslyy will almost certainly end up being that reference writer in substance and form because he entertains himself with solvency in the descriptive part, overloading it with symbology. But also because his wardrobe ranges from sociological and moral notions to meta-literary actions. Actions where literature itself, the writer, and the scope of literature today transforms it into a Joel dicker loaded with sophistication.

Top 3 Recommended Books by Dimas Prychyslyy

There are no gazelles in Finland

Finland, with its name on the edge of a flat planet, appears to us as the country of the most sinister eternal light and the longest nights. A place where, despite everything, gazelles could acclimatize better than humans. Only that we wanted to inhabit all the spaces of this planet ...

Mario, a clerk in a bookstore and recently fired, spends eight hours of his non-working day on the subway. He has found on the floor of a wagon a paper with something written on it: the list of the last purchase one makes in life. Damián, an aspiring writer in the eighties, has to see it, who decides to request the help of Claudia, whose job it is to impersonate some authors on their social networks. There is a mark on the paper that is familiar to him and… Here begins the search that will lead them to Olvido, an accomplice librarian; Aurelio, a letter-wounded police commissioner, and Ástrid Lehrer, a character in search of an author.

And while these characters «who are not capable of separating the enjoyment that fiction gives them from the enjoyment that delving into the lives of others» gives them wild detectives, Misha struggles with her sexual identity; his M., Isolina, with abandonment through an unhealthy relationship with the food that he shares with Antonio and Bea, and Zhora, locked in his house, has come down from the world. Very close to him lives Mar, a 99-year-old woman, a counterpoint of peace and understanding in which the lost find comfort. Including the reader. 

There are no gazelles in Finland It is more than a novel: it is also a puzzle with touches of Valle but in the Burroughs way passed by Bolaño, which the reader must build with the conviction that reading is a subtle form of violence and that all characters, author and readers, we are pieces of paper in glass containers.

There are no gazelles in Finland

Three in a row

Twenty stories with a surprising flavor of the South (Canary Islands and Andalusia) in which the lives of apparently disparate characters are interwoven, but as in the game of "tic-tac-toe" small links appear, everyday difficulties that make up a complex panorama.

Three in a row

With the withered forehead

"With the withered forehead" is not just a book of stories: it is an unusual journey through the history of bodies. It is a personal and collective memory that vindicates the beauty of the forgotten and the useless, a portrait outside the margin, a personal debt of its author, the poet and narrator Dimas Prychyslyy.

Although the protagonists have popular names (Lolita Pluma, the two Marías, La Junquera, Carmen de Mairena, Rosario Miranda and Mónica del Raval), in reality we know little about them, about their lives. Prychyslyy reveals to us with raw and direct prose both their daily dramas and the bitter side of the freedom they always enjoyed. A work that, following the teachings of Jean Genet, delves into miserable life as a voluntary need.

With the withered forehead

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Spoon knife Fork

Life is subjected to strange centrifugal or centripetal forces. The point is to stay in the epicenter and choose the force that best suits you at all times. Being a loser is always choosing the most polarized force until you get stuck at that pivot point that ends up being an anchor. The only advantage of that is that from there you can see reality with extreme lucidity.

David is a teacher trying to get over a breakup. While he adapts to living with his nephew, who has settled in his house to pursue a degree, he only has the company of his friend, Petrichor, to whom he tells about his miseries.

David is also a frustrated writer who decides to tell his life, unable to write anything better. It tells the story of his family, originally from an Eastern European country, the adaptation process he goes through with his brother in a new country and the maternal adventures that will lead them to a new life, until they reach university and the first love. David's former partner lives in the attic of the same building and David is forced to see her passing by every day in the company of her new boyfriend.

Petrichor's recipes and sense of humor will not be enough to combat his depression, until an unexpected event of international scope makes David see things differently. Spoon Knife Fork is a novel that delves into family fictions, following the premise of the now legendary phrase from a folklore: "When I tell lies, I turn them into truth"

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